Hi all,
I recently started dabbling with SolidWorks materials, with RealView turned on. Truth is, it doesn't look that good. I'm keen to hear from anyone using materials to create great looking assemblies - I'm sure I've seen them in SolidWorks promos before.
Note I'm talking about working in real-time, not PhotoWorks renderings.
Also, has anyone created/tweaked their own material images for RealView? SolidWorks came with lots of fairly dodgy metals and pastics, and the wicker/foliage/timber materials are of no real use.
Lastly, I notice that SolidWorks maps the material image onto each face of the modelled object, sometimes rotating or stretching the image. Anyone know what rules it's following? Is it possible to have it project one image onto the whole model instead of face-by-face (like using images for lighting in PhotoWorks)?