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information, see O bject Name and Wiref rame
Color (page 3–757).
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 K eyboard (page
1–169).
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 drop it into
aviewport.
Automatic Ma teria ls—Assigns default materials for
the plant. To mo dify these material assi gnments,
use the Material Editor (page 2–1409).Selectthe
plant in the v iewport, and click Main toolbar >
Material Editor . Click the Get Material button
(page 2–1439) to display the Material/Map
Browser. Under Browse From, choose Selected.
Then,fromthelistpane,double-clickthematerial
list item for the plant to d isplay the materials in the
Basic Parameters rollout of the Material Editor.
If you turn off Automatic 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 assigned. T his way
you can specif y a pa rt icular default material for all
foliage objects. For more information, see Object
Name and Wireframe Color (page 3–757).
When on, Automatic Materials overrides the
Default Material settings.
Note: Even if Automatic Materials is off, 3ds Max
still assigns material ID s 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 palette, their
scientific names, types, descriptions, and the
approximate number of faces per object. You can
also add and remove plants from the p a lette, and
clear t he palette, which removes a l l plants f rom the
palette.
Tip: To quickly add or remove a plant from the
palette, double-click its row in the Configure
Palette dialog. The Fa v. (Fa vorite Plants) column