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# 1 01-06-2003 , 04:49 PM

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Ok, I have a yellow ball, with a bright yellow blinn shader. I want to add "DrKnow" to the ball, but I want to use an image. How can I put the image on the ball without having a white square behind the text???

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# 2 01-06-2003 , 04:50 PM

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i know how to make the background transparent, but does maya allow transparent gifs as textures???

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# 3 01-06-2003 , 04:52 PM

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save as targa (.tga)
it saves the transparency,too

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# 4 01-06-2003 , 04:54 PM

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ok, but how do i go about putting it on the ball

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# 5 01-06-2003 , 04:59 PM

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probably just make a texture for the ball with Dr. Know on it. Seems like the most straight forward way.

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# 6 01-06-2003 , 05:10 PM

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Yes, that is a good Idea, but if i just make a yellow background and put it on a blinn shader, will I still have the blinn effect??? Here is the ball btw.

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# 7 01-06-2003 , 05:41 PM

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On A|W site, there is a tutorial for "Putting a Lable on a Bottle"

That's the tut for this situation user added image

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# 8 01-06-2003 , 05:57 PM

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ok, thanks rage. Ill go chack it out

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# 9 01-06-2003 , 07:31 PM

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Look in the online maya docs

There is an even easier place to find a tutorial for this, in the online documentation of Maya:

Help -> Tutorials

Instant Maya->Tutorials->Rendering->Lesson 2 Shading surfaces

It has a tutorial that takes a sphere and textures it to look like an orange with the text written on it, and then goes on showing you how to adjust the bump map, spec map, etc.

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