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Object texturing in Gmax

Voyager30

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This might be a very trivial question but for the moment haven't I found any answer to it.
When reading the GMax tutorial on "Making a house" it seems like its possible to asign one texture that represent the "day" and one that represent the "night" eg the "texture" and "texture_lm".

But if i want to reuse a previous texture, for example a roof texture that can be used on a lot of buildings, is it possible to attch this to the object also.
Or is it so that all textures needed for the object must be on/in the same imagefile.

The scenario is that i have a roof texture and another texture representing the building & i want to use both textures on the same object.

Of course can i create a bigger image 1024*1024 instead of 512*512 and put all textures on the same image - but it seems like it will be a lot of duplicate textures that the sim need to load.

Regards

Gerth
 
"But if i want to reuse a previous texture, for example a roof texture that can be used on a lot of buildings, is it possible to attch this to the object also."

Yes
 
Yes, you can apply as many textures as you want on your object. There is no need to restrict the number to only one (although using hundreds would not be that good for the performance).
 
Thanks for your answers, but now it will be obvoius what a beginner I am, how do I add the second texture to the object ?

I have tried to drag a texture onto the object, but when i do so does the whole object get retextured, not only the roof as i intended.

Can it maybe be so that I have to do some kind of face/polygon selection before applying the texture to prevent a retexture of the whole object ?

Thanks in advance

Gerth
 
I usually select the polygon I want textured and then create a new matrerial and then select the appropriate texture.

Steve
 
Voyager30 said:
Can it maybe be so that I have to do some kind of face/polygon selection before applying the texture to prevent a retexture of the whole object ?
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Yes that is correct.
You can add different images/textures to each polygon in an object.
 
Hi Gerth,

You can just drag and drop the new texture on your model, but you need to be sure that you have the correct polygons selected first. Else it will apply to the entire object.

This can for example be done by adding a "Mesh select" modifier and then selecting the proper polygons in polygon mode.
 
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