Basic rendering

[wektis]

Hi all,

So all I have done so far is made a floor and walls following some of the tutorials on the forums here, so i have your basic room with the blue and white checkers.

If anything (marketable) comes of my playing with the engine I don't want to accidentally include any UDK artwork so I have imported a .tga image as basic render to play around with.

All the tutorials I see advise to simply select the image in the content browser, select the appropriate area, right click, and add material - this does nothing.

I found an option to create a new material when right clicking my .tga file in the browser, after doing this and repeating the above process I simply have a black floor or wall.

I notice that the mat I created has 3 instructions and 0 textures so I assume I need to reference the .tga file to it as a texture but after looking here and trying my own luck after an hour I have had no success.

My question:
How do I apply a basic render to my blue and white checker board floor and walls?

Thanks.
Wek.

[NightClucker]

Did you wire your Texture Sample to the Diffuse node?

[wektis]

Thank you Nightclucker!!

erm.... now there is a sentence I didn't think I would ever use

The image actually hides the diffuse node when viewing in the material editor, and a couple of the others as well, but some careful mouse clicking saved the day.

Thanks again.

[Sam2]

Select the TextureSample, and hold Ctrl while clicking to drag the box to a better location.