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With
your vase selected, click on the Material Editor
icon, located in the top right of the screen:
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This brings up the
Material Editor:
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Under
Browse From, Select the Mtl
Library (Material Library) radio button.
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This
brings up a list of preset materials. In order
to see what they look like, click the View List +
Icons button: 
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At
the moment, we are only interested in Materials,
and not Maps, so de-select the Maps
check-box under Show.
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Click
once on any of the Materials to see it displayed in the larger window in the
top left of the Material/Map Browser.
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You
can choose your own Material if you like, but
it probably wont come out as you expect as we haven't given our vase Mapping
Co-ordinates (discussed later). I suggest you choose either Metal_Chrome
or Metal_Dark_Gold, as these will not require Mapping
Co-ordinates. You can now close the Material/Map
Browser by clicking close  in it's
top right corner.
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In the
Material Editor, click Assign to Selection: 
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This assigns the
material we just selected to our vase.
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Close the
Material
Editor by clicking close in it's
top right corner.
Now our vase is
finished, we need to Render it. So, frame your vase nicely in the
Perspective viewport, make sure the Perspective viewport is selected, and click
Quick Render:
You should have
something pretty like this......
You
may notice that the edges are not smooth. Go back to the Modify Panel and change
the amount of Segments to 60.
Try
another Render.....
Thats
Better!
Right
that's enough for one day!
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