1. The material browser is opened by choosing window>materials. you can also open the material browser by selecting the paint brush tool.

2. The paint bucket tool lets you apply material that you select in the material browser to object faces in the current scene. to use this tool choose tools>paint bucket or press (B)

3. To select the color simply click or drag within the color wheel to select the color you want and then drag the Brightness slider to adjust the color’s brightness. to use a texture appear as part of the current material, select the use texture image option from the create material dialog box. the opacity slider is use to set the material’s opacity or transparency.

4. To use the position texture tool click on the face that has a textured material applied to it and choosing texture>position.