Load a new material type and create textures for the car body

To use a texture you need a material type that supports textures. When you create an empty project in Kanzi Studio it does not include any material types or materials. However, Kanzi Studio comes with a set of material types you can use and modify to suit your needs. You can find all available material types in <KanziInstallation>/Studio/Asset Library/MaterialTypes/General. In this step you use a material type from that location.

Note that whenever you import 3D objects into Kanzi Studio, the materials used in the objects are imported too. You can see all available material types, materials, and textures in a project in Library > Materials and Textures.

In this step you first load a new material type to your project and then create a single and a cubemap texture for that material. In this step you use this cubemap material for the car body, but in later steps you assign the same cubemap to other car parts: rims, windows, headlights, and chrome parts.

Load the PhongTexturedCube material type

1. In the Library right-click Materials and Textures and select Load Material Type From Disk.
   
2. Go to <KanziInstallation>/Studio/Asset Library/MaterialTypes/General, select PhongTexturedCube.kzmat material type and click Open.
   Kanzi Studio adds PhongTexturedCube material type to Materials and Textures > MaterialTypes.
   
3. In the Library select Materials and Textures > Materials > MainBody_x1, and in the Properties set Material Types property to PhongTexturedCube.
   
   Since you just loaded the PhongTexturedCube material type, any material of that type uses the default texture. Next you create the cubemap texture for a material that uses PhongTexturedCube material type.
   

Create cubemap texture for the car body

1. In the Library right-click Materials and Textures > Textures and select Create > Cube-map Texture.
   
2. Name the texture CarBodyCubemapTexture and click OK.
3. In the Properties set the Cube-map Images properties to their respective images. Set the NegZ Image property to image NegZ.png, PosZ Image property to PosZ.png, and so on until you set all the images.
   
4. In the Library select Materials and Textures > Materials > MainBody_x1 and in the Properties set the TextureCube property to CarBodyCubemapTexture.
   
   Now that you assigned the cubemap texture to the car, you can see the reflection of the environment on the car body. Next you create the texture for the car body.
   

Create texture for the car body

1. In the Library right-click Materials and Textures > Textures and select Create > Single Texture.
   
2. Name the texture CarBodyTexture and click OK.
3. In the Properties set the Image property to image CarBody.png.
   
4. In the Library select Materials and Textures > Materials > MainBody_x1 and in the Properties set the Texture property to CarBodyTexture.
   
   

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See also

Creating textured materials

Using cubemap textures

Using single textures

Material types and materials

Textures

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