Moi 3d as Architectural tool

 From:  Michael Gibson
6543.9 In reply to 6543.7 
Hi eric,

> Your last post referred to materials being assigned to styles in MoI. I am
> assuming that you mean display colors ???

Yup, that, but also how the materials list is generated when you export to a rendering format like OBJ format.

When you export to OBJ format the styles list becomes a materials list in the OBJ file, and the style assignments become material assignments.


> So far as I know at this point one cannot assign external textures (like a .jpg file) to a
> 'style' ... am I correct about this?

Yeah you can't do it directly inside of MoI itself, you need to edit the material definition inside your rendering program to change the material from a basic solid color to instead have a texture.

- Michael