Materials

[bighop]

Ok, I did the tutorial on Yves' web site (very helpful by the way) for wood grain.

 

http://www.ypoart.com/

 

I've been trying to make railroad ties. ( Rodger Reynolds has been a great help by the way). Anyway, I made the material and it looks fine, how ever in the final render the grain seems to go away. I notice if I angle the model or camera this happens. Is this a normal look for a material? I thought you would be able to make out the grain no matter what angle it's at.

 

Any advice would be great.

 

Andy

[photoman]

Set the material to have 100% bumb or so in the Material properties box. I personally use multiple decals for textures most of the time (Killer proj size though....)

 

Hope it helps..

 

Photoman

[bighop]

Thanks. What adds more time...decals or materials?

[photoman]

I dont really know... But materials take more cpu time as in Decals take more ram and virtual memory.

[bighop]

Adjusting the bump was a good idea. That's another thing I don't know about decals. If they give you the flexibility that materials offer.