UV Maps and Material Colors (2 issues)

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  1. I have a PNG with some transparency that I’m using as a UV Map. Is it possible to have a material color under it? It seems as soon as I click TextFace it hides the material color sliders. Is it an either/or proposition with UV Maps and Materials?

  2. Another issue is if I have a texture applied to faces that have a UV Map (with transparent areas), the texture only shows up in the non-transparent areas of the UV Map even when TextFace is NOT clicked (for textures mapped to color).

Using Blender 2.41

Regards,
John

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instead of using TexFace, add an image texture and set the mapping coords [default to orco] to UV

this will however not allow you to have your image applied to only particular faces… unless you use a different material on those faces…

however it will allow you to do whatever you like in combination with other textures.

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That worked. Is this a preferred method? Why do it the other way?

Regards,
John