Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Member Made Tutorials => Modding & Meshing Tutorials => Topic started by: baltowolflover on April 23, 2014, 05:02:54 am

Title: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: baltowolflover on April 23, 2014, 05:02:54 am
(This is a pretty old thread, so it doesn't explain things very well sorry)

Hello there! Balto here! I'm here to show you how to make materials/textures for objects!

First, Go to the FeralHeart folder.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fg3wq_zps8320f0a3.png)
And click Media.
Then go to Objects and then go to Rocks. This is what you might see. ((I downloaded a lot of FH stuff so... xD))(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/t54_zps6ff5d4f8.png)
Copy a material.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/k_zps0b15805c.png)
And paste it on your desktop.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zpsa79a4f4a.png)
Then rename it to whatever you want. I'll rename it to Tutorial.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zps0df67b36.png)
Now open it. ((If you don't know how to open materials in notepad, Click the spoiler.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zps62925318.png)
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zps4f1954e1.png)
Then select Notepad. :3
))
As you open it, You'll see all this coding.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zps7873b6c5.png)
Erase some of it till it looks like this.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zps643c598d.png)
Now see those two areas?
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/fff_zps6931b902.png)
"material rockMat" is the name of the material and "texture rockTex.jpg" is the texture of the material.
Erase the "rockMat" and the "rockTex.jpg" and then type in whatever the name you want for your material. I'll name it "TutorialMat". And for the texture I'll name it "TutorialTex.jpg" But we need a texture, Don't we? You will need any type of drawing program I believe, I'll use Gimp.
With some materials, They usually are .png or .jpg, I'll use a .jpg. They can also be any size you want. But for right now I'll just use a image based off of a item from a game. 83
So name the image the same as what you typed in the material, "TutorialTex" And make sure its the same file you typed. "jpg" or "png" whatever you used! :3 So move the material and the image to My_Objects in the FeralHeart folders. Then open FeralHeart and go to the Object maker. And load any type of default FeralHeart object you want. I'll use ceiling.mesh.

In the Object maker, You see that Material box in the Mesh section?
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/screenshot_04222014_215410674_zpsd90c2331.png)
Type in the material name there.
(http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae199/yoshispyrolover/screenshot_04222014_215803174_zpsde538f2d.png)
And there you go! Hope this tutorial helped! 83

~Baltowolflover
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: Ingredient on April 25, 2014, 07:58:07 am
Great tutorial Balto! It's very clear and easy to understand ^^

I'll be sure to direct members here when they're needing help with material making ;)

+ Floof
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: mcgee2001 on April 25, 2014, 09:37:02 am
Great! I was looking on google of how to do this, I couldn't find anything. Then I found this! Thank you! +Floof
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: ritat on April 25, 2014, 07:52:05 pm
This is pawesome floof, it worked! I can't thank you enough, now I can do my own materials. For this, you get a nuzzle.

+Floof!
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: SenseiRei on May 16, 2014, 04:06:33 am
i am  making wearable items and i want to know how to match the material to the mesh?
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: Ingredient on May 16, 2014, 06:44:32 am
i am  making wearable items and i want to know how to match the material to the mesh?

I believe this tutorial will answer your question :3

http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=30544.0 (http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=30544.0)
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: Vespian on May 16, 2014, 09:22:11 am
Lovely tutorial, Ms. Balto. I can already see that it has aided many curious floofs and more to come. I cannot thank ye' enough for sharin' such a helpful tutorial.
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: Aicosu125 on May 16, 2014, 03:57:12 pm
Very nice tutorial!! That really helps other floofs with their material problems c:
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: Sashastriker on June 24, 2014, 05:05:43 pm
Finally, I found a post explaining this! Thank you very much for this! +Floof ^^
Title: Re: How To Make Your Own Materials For Objects!
Post by: Aicosu125 on July 01, 2014, 01:07:43 am
fantastic tutorial this really helped :)