Gradient

[Telvak]

I tried this tutorial of a pumpkin I found online, everything going great until I hit the part where (as far as I got it right) I need to use a gradient to put on my pumpkin like some sort of skin?

 

But the toturial didn't say how to access this gradient menu, and all I got from the Forums is just that. That gradient is some sort of a skin or colour thing I need to apply on my model?

 

I'm using AM 2003 v. 10.5o.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really wanna complete this model since it's my first one and it's lookig pretty kick ass... for a pumpkin...

 

Thanks for the help.

[Caroline]

I'm not sure about v10.5, but this is how you do it in v13:

 

1. In Project Workspace Right click Material > New Material

2. Right click the Material's Attribute > Change Type To > Combiner > Gradient

3. To enter those settings, assuming I'm looking at the right tutorial, change the properties for the Gradient, and enter 0s for Start and End, and 50% for the Edge Threshold. Click the + next to Gradient, and you have two attributes, so you can enter the Specular and Diffuse settings, etc, in those, as directed.

 

To apply the material to the pumpkin, I'm guessing that you have a group for the pumpkin (I haven't done this tutorial in a long while), so you can just drag the material onto the pumpkin group.

 

Same for the stalk. That would be a second material dragged onto the stalk group.

[itsjustme]

I tried this tutorial of a pumpkin I found online, everything going great until I hit the part where (as far as I got it right) I need to use a gradient to put on my pumpkin like some sort of skin?

 

But the toturial didn't say how to access this gradient menu, and all I got from the Forums is just that. That gradient is some sort of a skin or colour thing I need to apply on my model?

 

I'm using AM 2003 v. 10.5o.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really wanna complete this model since it's my first one and it's lookig pretty kick ass... for a pumpkin...

 

Thanks for the help.

 

There is a type of material that is a gradient...double click on the "Materials" folder in the Project Workspace (that should make a new material), right mouse click on the "Attribute" of the material, select "Change Type To/Combiner/Gradient". That will create two sub-Attributes that you can set to whatever the tutorial is telling you...I'm not familiar with the tutorial.

 

Hope that helps.

 

 

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EDIT

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D'oh! Caroline beat me to it....and she's familiar with the tutorial.

[Telvak]

Thanks a lot you guys, with your help I found what I was looking for, I'm gonna put it into use now. I was so stomped, thanks a lot!!