I know, I know.... there's a tutorial on the subject, but the link is dead. The manual itself does not appear to address the subject. I'd like to make use of the gold mine of textures and bump maps that are to be had on the Web, but I freely admit I don't know what the hell I'm doing. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Right click on the material sphere and select "Edit" In the bottom section titled "Coloring sphere" select the tick box "Use Mapped Picture" There will then be an area titled "Picture file" with a Load button in it. Navigate to your texture map and you're set. This is all I've found out so far... I've not used Vue for long, but I'm sure bumps use a similar approach. Really, just go in there and dig around a bit and you'd be amazed what you can teach yourself. Tilandra

Yes Tilandra. Concerning bumps it works approximately the same. In material editor, select bump page. Then right click on the sphere, then select edit function, then click on mapped values. A button named picture will appear; you will be able to load a bump picture. That's all. Yes it's not easy , but this type of system gives a lot of possibilities, maybe an infinite number (since you can mix several materials, with or without influence of environment, you can have several layers in one material,...) But I am not a specialist in that... :) Yves

Attached Link: http://members.tripod.com/~GUITTA/beginners/mat/mat.html

I think you speak about the links to my site in the tutorial section. It is Lycos who's guilty. Ther have absorbed the server where I was (multimania) and each saturday and sunday they are working on the line; I cannot reach my site at all. That's very disturbing and I'm sorry for it. Tilandra explained for bitmaps. If you want to know how to create and apply a material and bump maps from procedural materials, I have uploaded temporary the tutorial at the address above (as my palce cannot be reached today). This tutorial were create d in Vue 3, but works also for Vue 4. if you encounter problems or have more questions, do not hesitate to ask here:-) Hope this helps. Guitta

One more thing for the texture map, after you get it in, if it doesn't fit right, enter -1.000 after the y coordinate only in the picture size. Sharen

Sharen this is not any more necessary in Vue 06. It has been corrected:-) Guitta

oh, I see, I guess you see I still haven't gotten that patch. That will be the second thing I do this morning for me, hey Guitta, what time is it where you are, must be late...it is 5:47 am here. Sharen

Here it is now 11:52 a.m. (and it was 11:47 a.m. when you wrote:)). Guitta

Well we are not too off, what will the weather be today...it is going to be sunny and warm in upstate NY, that is where we are....gotta go get the pactches now... I hate updating Sharen

Half sunny, half cloudy here. We are much more to the north then New York. Only 62.6 F:-(. Too cold for me who was used to a warmer climate. Guitta

Thanks Guitta! That's exactly what I was looking for!