Sorry, I imagined that Punch introduced a new feature in Platinum V8, because they are announcing in the TV that Platinum V8 includes the free Material Workshop

Patricia

Thank you so much for clarifying that for me. Now that I know I can import my own wallpaper makes me happy. Do you happen to have any info or know where I can find out how. As stated I played with it for hours, I have read the in software help as well as the pdf manual (which Punch themselves referred me to, which is funny because it is exactly the same as the in software help which I told them I already read and it was no help, so they tell me to read the pdf manual which is helpful for "learning curves" lol I have the learning curve? but I didn't just blow my customer off by telling them the exact same information they already told , they read and it wasn't helpful??) I have also spent hours doing searches here and at punch alternatives and can't find any information. I was assuming it would be something fairly simple like just take one of their existing wallpapers and modifying it by maybe copy and pasting your own texture over it and saving it as a different file? Pretty much all I am interested in doing is making some different wallpapers and exterior covering. I have tons of wallpaper jpeg from my SIMS games. :-) Thanks again for your help.

Lyle I have read all of your Commandments previously & just read the Textures & Colors. Thank you so much for all your time & effort you put into helping us.:-) However I am feeling rather stupid. I have pretty much figured out everything I need to know to design & even a little bit of 3D workshop, but for some reason I just do not get this Material Modifier. The thing I really liked about this program was the fact that it looked like you didn't have to be an architect to use it, and 2nd the on line community where you could share creations for your designs, but unfortunately the program is too technical for dummies like me. All of the directions I have come across tell you how to save this or that it doesn't just say 1) take a texture use paint shop to modify 2)re size to 256x256 3)save as .bmp 4) click on (x) to import into material modifier etc...just easy step by step once I figure that out I will know how it works & I will be able to figure out what else I can do with it. Your information is probably wonderful for people that know software & it probably helps them out, but you are like a doctor talking in medical terms to a patient & I just don't get it sorry :-) (I am very familiar with editing software especially photo explosion deluxe & the only paint I have is MS paint) I have created textures & have 2 of each 1 in 256x256 & another in 50x50 saved as .bmp just in a file in my documents but I don't know what to do with them now. I am guessing I have to get them into Material Modifier some how so I can use them to Modify one of Punches existing textures but I can not for the life of me figure out how to get my textures into the modifier.

Hi MJVisner,

Try in this way.
Say you are going to replace the file(s) "cover31" using the file "mytexture.bmp"

- Go to your Window Explorer
- Select--> Tool--> Folder Options--> View--> Uncheck "Hide Extensions for known file types"
- Now all your files will appear as the first image attached
- Open MSPaint(if you have MS Windows, you have it)--> File--> Open--> "mytexture.bmp"
- Delete "mytexture.bmp" and write "cover31.ptx". You need to write the name of the extension with the name of the file as you see in the second image attached
- Proceed in the same way with the "cover31.ppv" file

Hope this helps

Patricia

Hi MJVisner,

I am glad to know you are using your wallpaper!

Regarding the size of the texture: say you replaced a brick texture, you can resize it using the PTI file information. Suppose you replaced the texture "BrickXY".

1 - Go to the Windows Explorer-->Program Files-->(your Punch Program)-->Textures-->Bricks
2 - For each texture, you will find 3 files (2 bitmaps and 1 PTI). The PTI is the description
3 - Right click in the file BrickXY.PTI File-->Open with-->Notepad
4 - You will see
[Size]
Width=xx
Height=xx
Change these values until they fit your necessities
5 -Save it using Notepad.
6 - In liveview, check if the size is OK, or repeat as necessary

To add an attachment, reply this message and at the bottom of the screen you will see 3 boxes (see picture attached). You can attach 3 files

Let us know if you need additional help

Patricia

I too have spent hours trying to get the Materials Painter to do something that evidently it was not designed to do even though the instructions indicate you can customize paint, brickwork (per page 169 of the of the user’s Guide). Changing the tint falls far short of customizing, cannot even modify the size. So what is the point? I thought Version 8 Materials Painter would be an improvement and from what I see, it is not. Why not put 451-texture editor in Version 8 and stop this silliness. Do not fix something that is not broken.

Hi Angela Martin, Does this happen only with the MM materials? this is odd Send me your plan + material and I will check it Patricia [email protected]