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Material -- colored labyrinth
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Objectives
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|  |a|  | So far, our objects are unique grey. Now lets make the new world        |
|       | a little bit colorful. Therefor we are using materials                  |
|       | and/or textures.                                                        |
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Instructions
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:Tasks:

1. Construct your own new level as shown in the last station.
2. Create new types of objects for the character $ and @ (ie. cone, cylinder).
3. Add different colors for every type of object. 


Das Labyrinth
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Creating the labyrinth is the same procedure as before but in addition we add a material.

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Create a new material
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Materials in Blender are distinguished by name and exists independent from objects. Therefor it is possible to put one material to different objects.

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Save object
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The new object is allocated to a variable named »*obj*«.

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Function: setColor
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The function *setColor* needs tree parameters: object, material and color.

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Allocate material
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Within setColor the parameters are used to change the given object.

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Result
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