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>&#13;		As a final note on texture, let's look at the
		fourth texture type button, <TT
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>Plugin</TT
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>&#13;		Blender allows the dynamic linking at run time of shared objects,
		both texture and sequence plugins. In both cases these objects are
		pieces of C code written according to a given standard
		(<A
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		texture plugins, these chunks of code define functions accepting
		coordinates as input and providing
		a Color, Normal and Intensity output, exactly as the procedural 
		Textures do.
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>&#13;		To use a Texture plugin, select this option, and then
		click the <TT
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>Load Plugin</TT
> button which appears in the
		Texture Buttons. A neighboring window will turn into a File Select
		window in which you can select a plugin. These plugins are 
		<TT
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		files on Windows and <TT
CLASS="literal"
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>&#13;		Once a plugin is loaded it turns the Texture Buttons window
		into its own set of buttons, as described in the
		individual plugin references.
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