Apply a Bitmap as a Texture

1. Create a NURBs plane.
   • – Make sure the plane is a complete square.
   • – Press 5 to turn shading on.
   • – Turn Hardware Texturing On
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2. Create a material to place your bitmap on.
   • – Decide what type of material you are creating.
   • – In this example I created a lambert.
   • – Navigate to the Attribute Editor with your plane selected.
   • – Click on the material tab, in this example, that’s my lambert tab.
3. Change the color sectionto a bitmap.
   • – Click on the checked icon on the right to color.
   • – Select  file in the popup window.
   • – Go back to your Attribute Editor and click on the file tab.
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   • – Load your bitmap in your texture ATTRIBUTE EDITOR || File attribute > Image Name.
   • – Select your bitmap.
   • – I created a perfect square as an image.
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4. Modifying The bitmaps Attributes
   • You can adjust several properties.
   • Coverage: place the image 1 to 1.
   • Translate: moves the image
   • Rotate: rotates image from center.
   • Mirror: repeats image
   • Interactive Placement Button
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   • – Click on the Interactive Placement button
   • – Use the MMB to rotate, scale and translate.
   • – Corner point: rotate;
   • – Center Point: translate
   • – middle edge point: scale