Applying image to mesh in Blend?

Ladytron

I'm a bit frustrated! :poly127:


I'm not sure how to explain this so I'll just tell you guys what I want to do...


Here's the mesh.



Now I want to open an image with an alpha background (hope I'm saying this right) And assign it to the mesh.



I hope it's not too complicated. In Milkshape 3D it's very simple: All you have to do is open the image and click "assign", and it assigns the image to the selected mesh. Simple!

See:






It doesn't do that in Blender, or at least I'm not understanding how to do this. I have asked someone before, and there's all these steps you have to go through. I just hope it's not too complicated just to apply and image to a mesh... seriously! lol

Blender is driving me crazy!:poly142:

Thank you!

Dataday

Blender, at the moment, requires you to set up a material and a texture.
So click on the material tab, then add a material. Then the next tab over is the texture tab. Add a texture.

Then you can define that you want an image file. Find the file you want and open it under that same tab. If you want to map it to a UV space, you have to unwrap the plane and then tell the texture coordinates under the texture tab to use the UV space.

Additionally, its a bit easier and for many faster to just use the node window. Working in nodes is a bit easier to navigate.

mAlkAv!An

Quick way: http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/quick-tip-import-textures-like-a-boss/

Ladytron

Thank you guys! I will try this! If need help I hope I can come back to this thread.