Textures

BeginnerArtistProgrammer Textures are images mainly used in materials. Xenko maps textures to the surfaces the material covers. texels) can also be used for other calculations, such as in specular maps, metalness maps, or normal maps. Materials typically contain multiple textures; for example, a material might contain a color texture, a normal map texture, and a roughness texture. sprites.

Supported file types

You can use the following file types as textures:

• .dds
• .jpg
• .jpeg
• .png
• .gif
• .bmp
• .tga
• .psd
• .tif
• .tiff

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  Add a texture

  Asset View, click Add asset > Texture, then select a template for the texture (color, grayscale or normal map):

  Note

  camera. For more information, see Render targets. Alternatively, drag the texture file from Explorer to the Asset View: color, grayscale or normal map): Game Studio adds the texture to the Asset View:

  Texture properties

  The following properties are common to all textures.

  Color texture properties

  type to color.

  Normal map properties

  type to normal map. Normal maps page.

  Grayscale textures

  Grayscale texture use only the R channel of the image (finalRGBA = originalRRRR).

  Note

  If you add a texture to a scene (as a sprite component), and set the texture type to grayscale, it appears red, not monochrome. This is because the image uses the R (red) channel. Sprite component properties, set the Type as Grayscale. For more information about the sprite component properties, see Use sprites. material maps. For example, you can use a texture as a blend map to blend two material layers: Note how the blend map texture corresponds to the patterning on the result. Material maps.

  Global texture settings

  Game Settings page.

  See also

• Normal maps
• Texture compression
• Texture streaming
• Materials
• Sprites
• Render textures
• Skyboxes and backgrounds