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information, see Object Name and Wireframe
Color (page 3–800)
.
When Favorite Plants rollout > Automatic
Materialsison,eachplantisassigneditsown
default material. For more information, see
Favorite Plants rollout, following.
Keyboard Entry rollout
See
Creating Primitives from the Keyboard (page
1–164)
.
Favorite Plants rollout
Thepalettedisplaystheplantscurrentlyloaded
from the
Plant Library .Therearethreewaysto
add a plant to the scene:
•Usekeyboardentry.
• Click the icon in the Favorite Plants list and then
click a location in a viewport. Double-click the
icon to place the plant at the world origin.
• Drag the plant from the palette and d rop it into
aviewport.
Automatic Ma teria ls—Assigns default materials for
the plant. To modify these material assignments,
use the
Material Editor (p age 2–1253) .Selectthe
plant in the view port, and click Main toolbar >
Material Editor . Click the
Get Material button
(page 2–1283)
to display the Material/Map
Browser . Under Browse From, choose Selected.
Then,fromthelistpane,double-clickthematerial
list item for the plant to display the materials in the
Basic Parameters rollout of the Material Editor.
If you turn off A utomatic Materials, 3ds Max
assigns no materials to the object, unless the Name
And Color rollout > Default Material check box
is on and a default material is assi gned. This way
you can specify a particular default material for
all
foliage objects. For more information, see Object
Name and Wireframe Color (page 3–800)
.
When on, Automat ic Materials overrides the
Default Material settings.
Note: Even if Automatic Materials is off, 3ds Max
still assigns material IDs to the foliage objects,
so that the object is ready for a multi/sub-object
material.
Plant Librar y—Displays the Configure Palette
dialog . Usin g this window, you can view
information on the available plants including
their names, whether they’re in the p alette, their
scientific names, types, descr iptions, and the
approximate number of faces per object. You can
also add and remove plants from the p a lette, and
clear the palette, which removes all plants from t he
palette.
Tip: To quickly add or remove a plant from the
palette, double-click its row in the Configure
Palette dialog. The Fav. (Favorite Plants) column