In Chapter 3, we explored animated materials and textures. We can create a screen setup to aid us in that process as well.
Ideally, you should have created the previous recipe because we will use that to act as a template, applying a very simple modification to transform it into an animated materials layout. We will run through this recipe quite quickly so if you do not understand the interface controls to change and position Blender windows, complete the previous recipe, which should take no longer than 15 minutes. If you do this, the current recipe can be completed in less than 5 minutes.
You will need to begin by either starting Blender, to ensure the default scene is loaded, or to select New from the File menu.
Select the Materials screen from the Browse ID data selector in the Blender Information header. This was the screen created in the previous recipe.
From the same selector, click the + icon to create a copy. The...