Assigning material grayed out? Issue

[Starstreams]

Anyone know why my (Assign Material to Selection) button is grayed out?
I don’t have this problem with the default materials but for some reason my 32bit TGA texture will not let me use this button.
In the Material-map-Browser I had the Get From set to “New” as I imported the TGA through the bitmap button.

Can anyone recommend the correct way to import textures into max for use on meshes that will be used for statich meshes?
It’s my understanding that 32bit TGA files are uncompressed and are good for working between Max and Unreal becouse it saves the original quality before compressing them in the editor which would be last. This Document is at the UDN web site.

anyway I don't understand why this button is grayed out, the texture size is 512x512

 

[Radiosity]

Try selecting the Face instead of the Polygon.

 

[Starstreams]

Never mind I found out why it was not working. And I have to give credit to Spooge from Spooger’s place for this info.

You can not load a texture through the material browser, however you must use the Map button to the right of the defuse swatch or it will not work correct and you’ll kill the sphere in the sample window resulting in a flat texture in the sample window and the assign button will be grayed out.

 

[Radiosity]

I've never come across that problem as I always use diffuse anyway, so thanks for the info

 

[Starstreams]

No prob

By the way, Spooge has also just released a new document that he was working on for Epic, I think everyone should read this, it’s not that long
http://udn.epicgames.com/pub/Content/MAXtoUnreal/

 

[Radiosity]

Correction - everyone who doesn't already know it should read it Or possibly read it, think "yep that's what I do anyway" and move on. Whichever.

Good bit of info though, I've had the 'Did you forget to include ALL textured geometry blah blah' message once or twice after a clean install of Max (forgetting to hit the appropriate checkboxes when exporting, since they default to unchecked).

All good fun