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Select brushes in your scene
Working with brushes
Blend preset brush settings
Map file textures to color and opacity
You can map textures to tubes, leaves, and flowers.
The procedures that follow use the file texture and tree shown below
to illustrate the effects of mapping. The file texture has alpha.
To
map a file texture to tubes and branches
- In
the Paint Effects Brush Settings window,
or the brush Attribute Editor, expand Shading then
expand Texturing.
- Turn
on Map Color to map the color
to the texture, and adjust the scale and offset if necessary. For
details, see
Map Color
- Turn
on Map Opacity to map the opacity
(or alpha), and adjust the scale and offset if necessary. For details,
see
Map Opacity
- Beside Texture
Type, select File.
- In
the Image Name box, type the name of
the image file you want to use for the file texture, or click the
folder icon and select it.
To
map a file texture to leaves
- In
the Paint Effects Brush Settings window,
or the brush Attribute Editor, expand Shading then
expand Tubes > Growth > Leaves.
- Turn
on Leaf Use Branch Tex to use
the file texture applied to the tubes and branches.
When turned on, the texture that is applied
to the tubes and branches (in this example, the arrow), continues
onto the leaves.
When turned off, the texture is mapped to the
UV coordinates of the leaf. Opacity (or alpha) is mapped automatically.
- In
the Image Name box, type the name of
the image file you want to use for the file texture, or click the
folder icon and select it.
To
map a file texture to flowers
- In
the Paint Effects Brush Settings window,
or the brush Attribute Editor, expand Shading
then expand Tubes > Growth > Flowers.
- Turn
on Flower Use Branch Tex to use the
file texture applied to the tubes and branches. The texture that
is applied to the tubes and branches (in this example, the arrow),
will continue onto the flowers.
When turned off, the texture is mapped to the
UV coordinates of the flower. Opacity (or alpha) is mapped automatically.
- In
the Image Name box, type the name of
the image file you want to use for the file texture, or click the
folder icon and select it.