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Renaming textures?

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According to the wiki, I should be able to rename textures, but I can't find this option?

All of the texture names are very long so when exported as 3DS, the names include a tilde.
 
In the event, I was able to achieve the requirement (which was to remove a single face with a unique texture) without exporting as 3DS. I deleted the texture (which deleted the face :)) and exported as an FSX model.

However, it didn't remove the bounding box :(



And, the bounding box is displayed in FSX:



 
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Simply rename the texture within the Material Editor interface and it will save and export using that definition. Right in the same window where you define the save location. Click the texture name, edit it and watch it resort itself alphabetically.
 
The bounding box is calculated automatically. So there is probably another polygon that makes it big.
 
=rk= said:
Simply rename the texture within the Material Editor interface and it will save and export using that definition.
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Yes, but it doesn't rename the texture files, only the texture references.
 
You manually need to save the textures after renaming indeed. That's also done from the material editor (texture tab). It won't happen automatically.
 
arno said:
You manually need to save the textures after renaming indeed. That's also done from the material editor (texture tab). It won't happen automatically.
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After renaming, the textures have no properties:



When I save, ir saves only the original textures.
 
Did you rename them on the texture tab?

Renaming in the material properties is like assigning a different texture.
 
No, I renamed them on the properties page.

I see it does work on the textures page.

Thanks.
 
Help.

I renamed all 98 textures and converted them to jpegs for GMax. This worked perfectly and I was able to import and delete the unrequired faces. Unfortunately, the GMax export changed all of the texture references to dds.

Converting to jpeg loses the alpha.
 
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Before you made them jpeg what format they had?

If either dds or bmp, it should work fine with the new mdl you have.
 
arno said:
Before you made them jpeg what format they had?
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They didn't exist.

However, I renamed and recreated the textures as dds and exported as 3ds. This solved the initial problem of the bounding box. There were two objects, removing the texture in MCX only removed one of them.

The good news is that I now have an FSX model instead of an FS9 one so the fps hit is much reduced and I no longer have the ground textures as a model, the ground is made by resample. :)



Thank you, MCX has again saved the day.
 
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