Interoperability with V4 Textures

About V4 Textures:

Before you start converting V4 2D textures into a V5 material, be aware that you might not be able to see the V4 texture in the V4 template, even though it is present in the .model. This is the case when:

the V4 texture is smaller than the face onto which it has originally been applied

the V4 texture has been defined, but not applied to any face in the V4 model.

In both cases, though not visible, the V4 texture exists and can be converted to a V5 material as described below.

This functionality is also available for Real Time Rendering 1 users (P2 only) but a V4 Integration license is required to copy a V4 texture.

This task shows you how to convert a V4 2D texture to a V5 material.

Open the texture2d_v4.model document.

Double-click *MASTER to display the tree.
Click the plus sign beside *IMDE1.
Click on the name of the texture you want to copy. In our example, we copy V4 TEXTURE EARTH:
Copy the texture by selecting Edit > Copy or by right-clicking and selecting Copy.

Open a material library by selecting Start > Infrastructure > Material Library for a new library, and paste the new texture in the family on which you want to create a material based on it.

A message warns you that no image is associated to the texture (identified by a broken link symbol) and that you have to edit the material properties in order to solve this.
Note that you can paste the texture in a part as well

	When you double-click on the applied texture: if you are working with UNIX, the right path is immediately displayed. The texture is displayed in the dialog box if you are working on Windows, a UNIX path is displayed and you must change it into a Windows path.
In the example below, the path has been changed to reference an image entitled "EARTH001.gif" delivered in the samples folder: