One of the easiest Blender material techniques is to apply a photographic image to a surface. Blender has many ways of achieving this. Here, we will explore some of the easier methods.
You should have either completed the previous recipe or you can download the following step blendfiles from the Packtpub website: chapt-06/ivy-leaf.zip
Just unzip the relevant step-file to your Blender directory. If you have completed the previous recipe, you should have the images files used for this recipe already in your Blender textures folder. You can unzip these separately from the ivy-leaf.zip
textures directory to your own textures directory, if you are starting from this recipe.
You can create your own start-file following the instructions given. However, subsequent step files are included for each stage of the recipe if you want to start each recipe in the section out of order.