noobie needs help with materials

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi There Everyone

I am a total novice to Blender and CG, but I am very keen to learn (so much so that I bought the blender book from my local bookstore - I was very surprised they stocked it!).

I am trying to make a little animation based on Fingathing’s album Time Capsule. It initially consists of two pills.

http://www.prupert.f2s.com/pills.jpg

If you look at the picture, you can see that I’ve kinda gotten there, however, there is clearly something wrong with the materials I have created. Because allthough the back pill is just a duplicate of the front pill, the front pill is not nice and white at one end, whilst the back pill is. By the way, I want the cool cartoony look at the mo. I got it just by playing, this is probobly where the problem is.

Here is a link to the blend file so you can investigate:

http://www.prupert.f2s.com/pill2.blend

If anyone can help and tell me what is going wrong, that’d be fab.

Secondly, I want to add a jpeg/bmp image of a face to the top side of the two white ends of the pills, so they look like this:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000APR5I0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

How do I go about doing that, when ever I try to add a jpeg as a material, it plasters it all over the whole object…

Any help would be realy appreciated.

Thanks

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OK, here it goes … :wink:

  1. You have two objects at the same place. The overlapping faces produce the artifacts. Simply move the “tube” away.
  2. You really use a lot of vertices for your pills, nothing wrong with that in the first place, but if you want to use more complicated objects, …
    => use subdivision surfaces.
  3. If the pills are your main characters, you should use UV-Mapping.
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Ha! So simple!

Cheers mate. I did manage to use subsurf - but I applied it already to the model! Whoops…

Why should I use UV-Mapping, what does that do?

Thanks for your reply btw.

:slight_smile:

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http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/UV_Unwrapping_And_Texturing

and search fors a tut on decals, which is what u want to put on the pills.