Material/Texture questions

[Futatsu no kawa]

I am just playing about in the editor and teaching myself elements of it. I have now started on materials and well most of them start with a texture sample, but what would you do if you just wanted to start with a solid block color.

I am trying to create an ocean material that is a solid blue, it is an overused example but think Windwaker, what is the best way to start this. Sorry for such a basic question but I could not see this answered in my searchers or via google.

Also while I am asking that, what is the optimum size for a texture sample and does anyone have a good tutorial that explains mapping a texture to a mesh?

Thanks!

[percydaman]

create a constant 1 node. right click it and choose convert to parameter. now you have a color swatch you can click to bring up color picker.

[musilowski]

Constant3Vectors let you determine each Red, Green and Blue values to form a color.

[Futatsu no kawa]

Thank you for the answers to the block color query working on it now and going well : )