Newbie Help Required for simple material setting on a plane.

johnkammer1962

I have what I think ought to be a very simple problem, and would appreciate help.

In trying to construct a set I would like to have a simple base plane (the ground) to which I would like to apply some material (like stone, or grass). For some reason when I add a plane I cannot seem to be able to set the material to grass or stone, or anything for that matter and I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. I can change the color of the material, but I would like to have grass, not merely green.

So if someone could help a newbie with this I would be grateful. Likewise if there is a good tutorial for setting up and customizing the environment (sky, & ground) that too would be awesome.

Thanks in Advance.

BeeMKay

Are you using a shader from he shop, or are you using custom material?
If you wqant to apply "grass", do you mean a picture of grass, or something three dimensional?

AJ2112

Search grass texture you like. Select plane in scene tab > select diffuse > click on diaglog box > apply grass texture.

johnkammer1962

lee_lhs said:

Are you using a shader from he shop, or are you using custom material?
If you wqant to apply "grass", do you mean a picture of grass, or something three dimensional?

A picture of grass would be fine. I am just looking for a starting point. I have some 3d grass elements I can add later, I'm just trying to get a ground in the scene. For some reason the environments I've selected don't seem to start with one.

If I could get my own photos in there on the plane that would be fantastic. I'm sure there is a way, just don't know it yet.

Thanks!

Design Anvil - Razor42

You can add an image to the diffuse channel in the surfaces panel with your plane selected, its the little box near where you set the color, a drop down will appear just select browse and locate your image.

johnkammer1962

Thanks! I knew it had to be something simple.
Just getting overwhelmed somewhat by all the things that this software can do.