From: Bell, Ross To: 3DSMAX (E-mail) <3DSMAX@ENGRAMDIGITAL.COM> Subject: RE: Decals with the alpha channel Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:52 AM Create a multi-sub Tex. Easy way is to create the first material as the default or most used tex for that model. Select the model edit mesh chose faces and select all and make there mat id 1. Now select those faces where you want the decal and assign a different material id number to it. Go back to the tex and for what ever number you assigned the other faces insert a blend tex into that slot. Now the first slot in the blend tex copy the tex from the first slot of the multi-sub mat. It will ask copy swap or instance, chose instance so this way if you tweak the original material it will automaticaly update this one too. Now for the second slot of the blend mat you can do it two ways insert a standard mat or just the bitmap. I would suggest the standard mat so you can adjust shine and what not settings. Place the decal in the diffuse setting and make what ever adjustments you want. Make sure though that you change the UVW channel to 2 or a different channel so that way you can assign a different UVW map coordinates to it. Also make sure tile and or mirror is unselected. Then the last slot of the blend mat insert an alpha bitmap of the decal, and do the same bitmap adjustments as you did to the diffuse decal map. That should be it. Ross -----Original Message----- From: Russell Jennings [mailto:russell0@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:48 AM To: 3dsmax@engram.net Subject: Decals with the alpha channel All How would you make a decal? Frex, say I've got a vehicle textured, but I want to put warning labels and such on. I don't want to incorporate the labels as part of the bigger texture file, but instead, I've heard you can use the alpha channel to make decals. Any deas on how this is done? I haven't found enough info in Max's tut's or manuals. Russ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net