Introduction¶

Not only can textures affect the color of a material, they can also affect many of the other properties of a material. The different aspects of a material that a texture influences are controlled in the Influence panel.

Note

Texture options for Surface and Wire materials and in some cases also for Volume and Halo materials.

Surface and Wire materials¶

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Texture Influence panel for a Surface material.

Diffuse¶

Intensity: Amount texture affects affects diffuse reflectivity
Color: Amount texture affect the basic color or RGB value of the material
Alpha: Influences the opacity of the material. Also use Z Transparency for light and if combining multiple channels.
Translucency: Influences the Translucency amount.

Specular¶

Intensity: Amount texture affect specular reflectivity
Color: Influences the Specular color, the color of the reflections created by the lamps on a glossy material.
Hardness: Influences the specular hardness amount. A DVar of 1 is equivalent to a Hardness of 130, a DVar of 0.5 is equivalent to a Hardness of 65.

Shading¶

Ambient: Influences the amount of Ambient light the material receives.
Emit: Influences the amount of light Emitted by the material.
Mirror: Influences the mirror color. This works with environment maps and raytraced reflection.
Ray Mirror: Influences the strength of raytraced mirror reflection.

Geometry¶

Normal: Commonly called bump mapping, this alters the direction of the surface normal. This is used to fake surface imperfections or unevenness via bump mapping, or to create reliefs.
Warp: Warp allows textures to influence/distort the texture coordinates of a next texture channel. The distortion remains active over all subsequent channels, until a new Warp has been set. Setting the factor at zero cancels out the effect.
Displace: Influences the Displacement of vertices, for using Displacement Maps.

Other Controls¶

Bump Mapping

Settings for bump mapping.

Method: Best Quality, Default, Compatible, Original
Space: Texture Space, Object Space, View Space

Volume materials¶

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Texture Influence panel for Volume material.

Special texture options for Volume materials.

Density: Causes the texture to affect the volume’s density.
Emission: Causes the texture to affect the volume’s emission.
Scattering: Amount the texture affects scattering.
Reflection: Amount the texture affects brightness of out-scattered light
Emission Color: Amount the texture affects emission color.
Transmission: Amount the texture affects result color after light has been scattered/absorbed.
Reflection Color: Amount the texture affects color of out-scattered light.

Halo materials¶

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Texture Influence panel for a Halo material.

Special texture options for Halo materials.

Size: Amount the texture affects ray mirror.
Hardness: Amount the texture affects hardness.
Add: Amount the texture affects translucency.