Exploring the Background Designer

Hover your mouse over parts of the background desinger you
want to know more about for tool tips on using the commands.

Use this to set the tile size for your background tile.The schema option allows you to choose a basic texture type for your image.These are presets you can choose from. The color, and texture will change when you use this option.This is the background type. It effectively works the same way as the texturizer by adding bumpmaps to your tile. Click here to edit the gradient ramp. You can click on a gradient wheel, and choose a different color, or you can change the hue for different colors. This option changes the amount of the bumpiness of the texture. Lower numbers mean less height to the bumps, and higher numbers mean more.This changes the number of patterns to fit into your tile. Increase it for a finer pattern, and decrease it for a larger pattern.Change the amplitude to lesson or increase the contrast between light and dark areas.This will darken or lighten your texture. An easy way to mute is to change this number to a higher number. Lower numbers make your tile darker.



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