Hi all, Sure, probably another newbie question here, coming off of yesterdays "Grass and Rock" thread. Suppose I have 2 materials, one for Grass and one for Rock (conveniently enough). Each one of these, independantly, is a mixture themselves of two materials. How do I mix these two? (I guess that would make 4 total mixtures, technically)? The way I've been doing it is loading a material, selecting edit. For non-mixed materials, I select Mix Materials (instead of Simple Materials) which defaults to a black or plain texture. I right click that preview, then load whatever material I want. The problem comes when the first texture is already a mix, I can't seem to add anything else. I must be just overlooking something... ideas? Thanks! -Brian

Save all the textures you want to mix. When it comes time to create the "mixed mixtures", just load whatever saved mixture you want to mix by right clicking on the default that appears when you click the "Mix Materials" box. Then load the material from what you've saved. Phew! I'm dizzy from all this mixing!! LOL Laurie

Sorry...not right clicking. Just click the little new material button at the bottom right of the new default material in the editor. Laurie

What Laurie means is save "Rock" and save "Grass", then start with a New material. Set that for Mixed, then load "Rock" and "Grass" on each respective slot. It was probably clear enough, but so easy to get all mixed up with this stuff. grin

I was mixed up beginning with my first few breaths.. so when I become unmixed, that is when you need to watch yourselves... hehehehe

heyas; you guys do what??? if i have a mixed material, say 'sand' and 'wet sand,' and then i want to add 'grass' to start building a multi-tier terrain material.... i grab the mixed sand&wet sand in the top (main view), then throw it down onto one of the two mixed materials. (grab & throw = click & dragon & drop). this creates a new layer of mixed mixed materials. so then you just edit/load the material you want to mix in with your mix, in the other side.... i think grabbing and throwing down still works, even if you can't unmix by throwing a mixed side up onto the main view. once you mix in the new mix, you can grab it and throw it down to the bottom slot to make another mixture. it's how i made the 'whole mountain' materials. if you're mixing via altitude, remember that the effects are cumulative. so if i had 'sand' and 'wet sand' at 50/50, i might slide that down to like 15%. then mixing the 'sand&wet' with 'grass,' i can put that at like 25%. and when i mix 'grass&sand&wet' with 'rock,' i can set that at 50, and put the snow up at 75. so the wet sand is like the lowest 15% of the whole terrain, et al.

My brains are now mixed. Ugh. What a mixed up, mix-up. Laurie

Bloodsong.... I just LOVE your descriptions!! LOL... All that VIOLENCE!!! Just THROW that sucker down there and GRAB another and THROW that on top! And of course the DRAGON drop.... Hey! I could really get into this!! SLAP, SLURP, DROOL, WHACK, SHLUCK...

:::searching for my Bloodsong To English dictionary::: ;)