Textured planets

In today's lecture we learnt how to use materials on shapes. We learned what the shaders were and experimented with the textures. I really like experimenting with the layers as there were so many options to choose form and so many different affects.

To create materials, you select 'rendering' from the top menu and 'material editor'

This is the material editor tool panel. Each of the 6 panels you see to the left are templates of your materials There are many more when you scroll down its very easy to experiment and use many different textures.

By clicking on the first button below the panel of 6 you can choose pre-set materials. There was a very long list, from a brick effect, to marble and grass.

Below I decided to use the 'sub object level' where you can split and object up into different parts so that you can texturize them differently. I chose a tea pot and split it up into its four different parts.

I did this by first clicking on the tea pot from the 'object type' menu, I right clicked it and converted it into an editable polygon. I then selected 'Element' in the 'selection' tool in the polygon properties. This then allowed me to select different parts of the object and name them (give them a tag). I named the four items, the spout - 1, the pot - 2, the lid - 3 and the handle 4.

Now it was time to change the material,
I clicked on Standard in the Material Editor, to pull up the proceedural map menu, I then choose Multi/sub object material and then OK.
10 material slots then appear. You can add materials or maps to the first four slots. Click on Material#standard and either add a map or make your own material. These materials then appear in the sample slot.

Instead of the basic shaders, and the preset materials, you can create you own texture by selecting 'Map' in the 'Material Editor' and importing a Bitmap. This is very easy and means you can have whatever texture you want.

July

This reminds me of Holidays, Beaches and the heat. Above is my mood board for July. The sun is in the center of my board as I think this is the most important image.

I Chose July as its the hottest month of the year, and if the sun isn't out wherever you live, many people go on holiday this month.I have the image of a beach in the background also representing this. It makes me think of calmness and tranquility and relaxation.In contrast to this when on holiday we love to let our hair down and the fishbowl cocktail in the bottom left corner represents this.

To the right of the image there is a lady coating her self in sun cream this also represents the heat and people wearing bikinis and wanting to catch the sun while it is out.