When adding Materials....

Sep 25, 2003 2 Replies
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I have often times wondered about the materials application in PW. I deinfately like the PW manager...not haveing to re-select the features again is kewl.



My questions comes when you press on the "illuminations" tab as you are applying the materials and the drop down box gives you like 20 different options to change the materials behavior....how? I mean in other words i see how different options become available and change the overall look (sometimes) but what is this changing really?



I have added "beech wood" as the material but then i can go and add "glass" to it. Is that giving the wood a glass feel?



Thanks in advanced.


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No, when you change the material from wood to glass, its just glass.

Regards, Scott

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Basically it's just granting/denying access to the individual slider controls. It's helping you narrow down the choices so you don't have to change a slider that's not applicable to the material. Like for instance, there isn't a refraction setting for Beech (which is set to Plastic) since wood generaly doesn't refract light.

It also adds/subtracts color options as well as other things like Anisotropic.

Pretty much. You can see how the Transparency slider gets moved to the right a bit, and you lose other settings not applicable to glass etc.

Mike Wilson

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