colorband isn't working for me

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For some reason colorband isn’t working. I even set all the alpha sliders to 1 but still no colorband. Do I have to have a texture to use colorband? I currently don’t have a texture on the mesh, I just wanted to use the shader with varying colors.

I suppose I could just make a texture in photoshop with blended colors but that’s a hassle and I’d like to get the colorband to work.

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Yes you need a texture, cloud, marble… one of those.

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I’ll disagree with Fligh% here and say you can just have a shaded material, no texture.

Download the Rampshader video.

http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Model_Material_Light.397.0.html

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Yes, you’re right… Ramps. Thanks for correcting me!

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