Maya 8, question about placing a texture and a texture from file, please help?

ok i can put a texture like lamber or phong e ect. But i also want to put texture on it. Like a box, and if i place a picture of a cereal from a file, it would look like a cereal box.


I really forgot about maya 8, i only took the first class. and 2 months later i forgot


plz helpMaya 8, question about placing a texture and a texture from file, please help?
What you want to do is use a bitmap texture, basically, use a pre-existing bitmap as a texture. Of course, start making your texture in Window%26gt;Rendering%26gt;Hypershade. First, make a simple texture node consisting of the shader you want (ie., Lambert for a basic diffuse surface). Be sure to double-click on this node and rename it to ';CerealBoxTitle'; or something, so that you don't lose track of it. Then in the left bin of the Hypershade, choose 2D texture%26gt;File and adjust its properties. Next, connect the color output of the File node to the color input of the Lambert node, and you're done.