Technical Tutorial

Hi every one this is James an I'm about to teach you how to add textures in Maya. This is how to make something like a sphere look like a tennis ball. how you do this is 1) look up a picture of a tennis ball texture on the internet be sure the texture is flat like this example.

After you find a texture you like save it to your desk top, then find the file folder your using for your project and put the file in   your source images folder now you need to  create a sphere. to create the sphere select the polygons tab and then click this button .

After that you need to hold down the right mouse button  and select  assign new material after that a menu  should pop up when it does click  lambert. after that in the attribute editor click the checker box next to the color box. after that a menu should pop up when it does click the button  that says file.
then click the folder button like in this example .

Than click the file you need and press the button that says open.  Now in the attribute editor you should see a box with a picture of the image you used.  If you  see a picture of the image click on the sphere and press the 6 key now you should see something like this.




you need this skill if you want to add a texture to any shape in Autodesk maya. for any one reading this weather you are doing a project for school, work, or just for fun you will need this skill to add a texture  or to add color to  your object.

Thanks for reading.