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GMAX Material Problem
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Have you got a UVW map applied?
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i don't think so, how is that done???
n4gix
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Wrong "blue/white checked cube." Press the "back arrow" to return to the Parent FSX Material and use the "blue/white checked cube" on that dialog.
You should see your texture on the part (possibly messed up without a UVW Map). Ordinarly a UVW Map is automatically created when you make the part, but it isn't always what you want precisely!
You should see your texture on the part (possibly messed up without a UVW Map). Ordinarly a UVW Map is automatically created when you make the part, but it isn't always what you want precisely!
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That did not work
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here take a look at for me i know i checked the blue checkered box.
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The problem is that you've never clicked on the "Apply" button in the Material Editor!
If you open the Material Navigator and look, you'll see that there is a "blue ball" in the left column, and no objects are listed after the entry []...
Select your hangar roof, click on the "Apply" button and note that the "blue ball" changes to a "red ball" and the object name is now listed as being assigned to that Material...
If you open the Material Navigator and look, you'll see that there is a "blue ball" in the left column, and no objects are listed after the entry []...
Select your hangar roof, click on the "Apply" button and note that the "blue ball" changes to a "red ball" and the object name is now listed as being assigned to that Material...
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ok that worked but now the textures are distorted on the large building see attached
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Posting only the .gmax file is useless without the textures, since no one can "see" what you're "seeing..."
In any case, even without looking I can pretty well conclude that after "Apply"ing the FSX Material, you did not add a UVW Map modifier to the stack and take a "snapshot" of the roof, which would allow you to then add a UVW Unwrap modifier and Edit the UVW Map (it's like cropping a photo!).
EDIT: I've confirmed my hypothesis. I see that you did add a UVW Map modifier, but you failed to select the polys you wanted to UVW Map first. When I added a UVW Unwrap modifier and opened the UVW Editor, I noted that only 1/2 of the roof (one triangle) was selected, and filled the available texture boundaries...
...which means that even the 1/2 that was mapped wasn't scaled to "fit" the roof's portion of your texture sheet, and the other 1/2 of the roof would have nothing but random placement/scale.
In any case, even without looking I can pretty well conclude that after "Apply"ing the FSX Material, you did not add a UVW Map modifier to the stack and take a "snapshot" of the roof, which would allow you to then add a UVW Unwrap modifier and Edit the UVW Map (it's like cropping a photo!).
EDIT: I've confirmed my hypothesis. I see that you did add a UVW Map modifier, but you failed to select the polys you wanted to UVW Map first. When I added a UVW Unwrap modifier and opened the UVW Editor, I noted that only 1/2 of the roof (one triangle) was selected, and filled the available texture boundaries...
...which means that even the 1/2 that was mapped wasn't scaled to "fit" the roof's portion of your texture sheet, and the other 1/2 of the roof would have nothing but random placement/scale.
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Robert_VAE,
May I suggest you watch and practice the following video tutorial?
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Texturing_a_GMax_building_video_tutorial
The method shown in the video is slightly different than what Fr. Bill (n4gix) is describing, but it will go a long way toward solidifying your understanding of how to map textures.
Cheers,
Z
May I suggest you watch and practice the following video tutorial?
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Texturing_a_GMax_building_video_tutorial
The method shown in the video is slightly different than what Fr. Bill (n4gix) is describing, but it will go a long way toward solidifying your understanding of how to map textures.
Cheers,
Z
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Bill Womack did a very good job with his mini-video tutorial. The only thing I might have done differently would have been to "fold" the roof map in half...
...since the two halves will quite likely have the same "shingles" or whatever for their actual texture.
This would allowed the front and back to have been scaled up a bit more...
Sometimes it's useful to work "backwards," meaning that you could create the actual texture elements in Photoshop, arrange them for best "fit," then arrange the UVW's to match the texture sheet's layout!
...since the two halves will quite likely have the same "shingles" or whatever for their actual texture.
This would allowed the front and back to have been scaled up a bit more...
Sometimes it's useful to work "backwards," meaning that you could create the actual texture elements in Photoshop, arrange them for best "fit," then arrange the UVW's to match the texture sheet's layout!