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danielstritt

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Images vs Textures
« on: April 11, 2017, 07:44:42 am »
Can someone please explain the difference in the configuration between "Images" and "Textures" directory settings?


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Daniel
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johnar

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Re: Images vs Textures
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2017, 02:47:15 pm »
The way i've always seen it, the textures folder is for keeping 'textures', ie: cloth, wood, metal, brick, marble, water, colors, bump maps etc.
 Images folder for 'images', ie, backgrounds, reference images, renders.
 I'm assuming you're not really finding a practical  use for the 'image' folder, which i understand. There's not a lot in my image folder either, a few background images, as i keep Ref pics and renders in the relative project file.
 good question. :)
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Re: Images vs Textures
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2017, 08:14:11 pm »
You can use a Reference Image to help you create a model. If you have a front, side and/or top drawing or photograph of something you want to model, add then to the Front, Left/Right, Top view in Anim8or as a guide to help you create the model.

A Texture is a image that is added to a Material which is then applied to various parts of an object to give it a more detailed color, transparency, etc. For example you can use a map of the world as a texture and apply it to a Sphere to make a model of the earth, or an texture of some bricks to the side of a building, etc.

Finally, in the Scene editor, you can use an image as the background, either as a fixed image that stays with the camera, or as a panorama that you can pan around in. See this view of how a panorama works in the manual.


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