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| Welcome to the series of Blender tutorials.

|This tutorial is about the properties window in Blender 2.59.

| This script has been contributed by Sneha Deorukhkar and Bhanu Prakash and edited by Monisha Banerjee

| After watching this tutorial, we shall learn what is the Properties window;

|What is the Texture panel in the Properties window;

| What are the various settings in the Texture panel of the Properties window

| I assume that you know the basic elements of the Blender interface.

|If not then please refer to our earlier tutorial - Basic Description of the Blender Interface.

| The Properties window is located on the right hand side of our screen.

|We have already seen the first few panels of the Properties window and their settings in the previous tutorial.

|Lets see the next panel in the Properties window.

|First, we must resize our Properties window for better viewing and understanding.

| Left click the left edge of the Properties window, hold and drag to the left.

|We can see the options in the Properties window more clearly now.

| To learn how to resize the Blender windows see our tutorial - How to Change Window Types in Blender

| Go to the top row of the Properties window.

| This is the Texture Panel. Here we can add a texture to the active material of the active object.

| Just below the Texture icon, we can see the links displayed. '''Cube''' to '''White''' to '''Tex'''.

| This means that the active object is the cube. '''White''' is the cube's active material.

|''' Tex''' is the White material's active texture. There are three types of textures -

|'''Material Textures. World Textures.''' And '''Brush Textures'''.

|'''World textures''' and '''brush textures''' will be covered in later tutorials.

| This is the '''texture slot box'''. By default, one texture is enabled for the active material. It is highlighted in '''blue'''.

| Left click the''' check box''' at the far right of the highlighted Texture. Now the texture is disabled.

| Left click the''' check box''' again. It is enabled again. Next to the check box is a''' vertical scroll bar'''

| Left click and hold the '''vertical scroll'''. Drag your mouse downwards.

|Now you can see all the '''texture slots''' available for the current material.

| Scroll back to the active texture.

| The '''up and down arrows''' are used to move the textures up and down in the texture slot box.

| Left click the''' down arrow'''. The active texture moves to the second texture slot

| Left click the''' up arrow'''. The active texture moves back to the first slot.

| Below the '''up and down arrows''' is another '''black down arrow'''.

| Left click '''Copy Texture slot settings'''

| Left click '''Paste Texture  slot settings'''.

| A new texture has appeared in the second texture slot, with the same settings as the first texture.

| Left click the '''cross sign''' at the right of the Texture name bar below the slot box.

|A '''new button''' with a '''plus sign''' has appeared.

| Left click the '''new button'''. A '''new texture''' has appeared in the second texture slot.

| So this is another way to add a new texture.

| A '''preview window''' has appeared below. It shows the preview of the active texture.

| lets rename this texture.

| Left click the '''texture name bar''' below the slot box

| Type '''Bump''' on your keyboard and hit the''' enter''' key.

|All textures used in the Scene are listed here.

| Below the name bar is the '''type bar'''. By default, every new texture displays the '''clouds texture'''.

| Left click''' Clouds'''. This is the '''Type menu'''.

|Here all types of textures supported by Blender are listed. '''Wood, Voxel data, voronoi''', etc.

|To select any texture type just left click on it. For now I am keeping the '''Clouds texture'''.

| This is the '''texture preview window'''. There three display options here.

| '''Texture'''. By default, this display is always selected.

| Left click''' Both'''. As the name suggests, both texture and material displays are visible side by side now.

| Left click '''Show Alpha''' again

| Left click the '''checkbox''' to the left of the '''color bar'''. Color is now disabled.

|The texture color no longer influences the Material Diffuse color.

| Go to '''Geometry'''. Left click the '''check box''' next to '''Normal'''.

| Blend controls how the texture blends with the material. By default, it is set as''' MIX'''.

| Left click''' Mix.''' This '''menu lists''' all the texture Blend types supported by Blender.

| Do you see this''' pink color''' bar under '''RGB to intensity'''? This is the default texture color.

|Right now it is not influencing the material color because remember we disabled the color option under Influence.

| Left click the '''pink color'''. A''' color menu''' appears.

|For now, lets leave it as pink because we are not using the texture color.

| '''Bump mapping''' determines how the normal of the texture affects the Geometry of the material.

|'''Default''' is the current method of bump mapping.

| Left click '''Default'''. This menu lists the different methods of bump mapping.

| '''Best quality, default, compatible''' and '''original'''.

| Left click '''compatible'''. The bump influence is increased.

| Next setting is''' Clouds'''. Here are various options for the clouds texture.

| '''Greyscale''' displays the textures in greyscale mode.

| Left click''' color'''.