Couple Questions from newb

Couple things i need help with if anyone wants to help.
I got blender yesterday and am messing around with it so here they are:
How can i make ground texture (dirt, grass, asphualt)
how do i make hair?
How do i get to particles in the newer version of blender
And, how do i color one poly area

How can i make ground texture (dirt, grass, asphualt)

  • Go into materials - make a brown or grey texture or whatever - press F6
  • make a new material
  • “Texture type” make it stucci
  • turn down “noise size”
  • Go back to material buttons
  • click “map to” tab
  • click “nor”

how do i make hair?
How do i get to particles in the newer version of blender

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52192&highlight=hair

And, how do i color one poly area

? possibly:

  • select a face
  • got to edit buttons (F9)
  • Click the “new” button on the right, under links and materials
  • Click “Assign”
  • Press F5
  • Then under material where it says “MA:Material” click the up and down arrows and click add new
  • Change the RGB sliders

Dirt or asphalt: use a image texture. You can also do it procedurally… but you’re just as well with a UV-mapped image texture.

Grass: RipSting’s Fiber script is the popular one for this. You can also use particles to make grass. Search for tutorials and you’ll probably find one you like.

Hair: You’ll have to wait till 2.41 for the real hair stuff… Until then, it depends: the best of the best is NateTG’s tutorial (see the first post at the top of page 5 for a link to the tutorial that still has images attached).
You can also use RipSting’s Fiber if you’re willing to put up with really high polycounts. Landis’s The Beast is an old script also useful for short pretty-boy hair (uses the ‘card’ technique).

Hmm… Alex_G has already finished answering, so…

Hope this helps.

thanx bunches

Ok well in the little box to the side it worked but on the cube it was just brown

Could you elaborate a little bit. What little box to the side and which cube?

ok, the preview box was textured, but the actual model (which was a cube) was just a brown cube.

and where is the asign button, Alex G?

Nvm got it but it didnt work

I cant get a texture to appear on anything
Help please?

mm have you tried rendering?

[F12]

What tutorials would you people reccomend to get really good at blender?

if you want to get really good at blender, you need to be able to do tutorials that aren’t specific for Blender, try some 3d Studio max, Maya or any other professional 3d software tutorials.

try some from here:

http://www.3dtotal.com/