'elp!

[Lancer]

I want to start modeling. I've got plenty of resource pics, I've got 3dsm6, I've got free time. Unfortunately, my program won't cooperate. I know this is probably a n00b question, but how do I map a texture to a plane? When I open the material editor to change the thingy next to the diffuse to Bitmap, it won't show up! Under the little Show tab, Maps is unchecked and greyed out, while Materials is checked and similarly grayed out.

Please help this newb!

 

[Short_Fuse]

You have to select the object you want the material on and in the material editor hit "Assign to Selection" its a little blue box. I think thats your prob.

 

[Lancer]

Hate to say it, but that's grayed out too. I figured something was wrong with my copy of 3dsm4.2 when this happened, but it's still occuring after I've upgraded to 6.

 

[Yakuza]

Hate to say it, but that's grayed out too. I figured something was wrong with my copy of 3dsm4.2 when this happened, but it's still occuring after I've upgraded to 6.

click on a sphere, then go down to difuse and change he color. After that click Assign Material

 

[Short_Fuse]

make sure you have something selected in the View POint windows and one of the materials selected. Then it cant be greyed out, it just cant

 

[Lancer]

click on a sphere, then go down to difuse and change he color. After that click Assign Material

Thanks! That fixed my problem

 

[random.hero]

while on the subject of material problems, could anyone help me out with my problem. i have a material in .jpg not very big, 400ish pixels, and whenever i assign it to a plane and close the mat editor, wither my machine hangs on the spot, or when i try and reload the file it hangs my machine. anybody got any ideas ?? ive yet to try it in .bmp format, that might help

 

[Stormy]

i told you that your 486 was getting abit out of date

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

I want to start modeling. I've got plenty of resource pics, I've got 3dsm6, I've got free time. Unfortunately, my program won't cooperate. I know this is probably a n00b question, but how do I map a texture to a plane? When I open the material editor to change the thingy next to the diffuse to Bitmap, it won't show up! Under the little Show tab, Maps is unchecked and greyed out, while Materials is checked and similarly grayed out.

Please help this newb!

you spent over 3000k on 3dsmax and dont knw how to even do that? hehe . Read the help files it comes with.

 

[HiroProtaganist]

i've had the problem with system hangs after closing out the material editor before. ended up fixing the problem by formatting and starting all over. A little dratic but whe you've been working on a model for many hours and suddenly the file corrupts because of a crash it makes me want to cry.

 

[random.hero]

errrm rigghht, i think ill leave that as a last resort. i know what you mean, but i was lucky, i was only setting up the 3D blueprints, then my machine hung from downloading too much porrr...i mean tutorials , so i never got round to starting any of the model.