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FSX Somewhere texture files must be getting lost on export...or something???

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I am working on the 1st layer textures for my groundpolys in Gmax. I am only using 3 diffrent textures for the taxiways and aprons (runway is in a diffrent .bgl)
I opened them with the UVW map and put the textures on the diffrent polys per usual, but when i export the .MDL and open it in MCX, it isnt finding my textures -and also- its trying to use some other texture thats not even in my model!!

here is the shot of my working window in gmax

this is pretty simple, but here are the files - after being converted to .dds dxt5, all in the same folder for MCX to read....

this is what i get when i load up the .MDL in MCX. the files that go with the model are in the folder right with the.MDL, but for some reason it wont load them


I suspected as much but when i put them in FSX this is what i get. I have no clue where the "grey taxiways" color came from. it seems to come from gmax somehow, but i couldnt begin to say from where. i only added textures.

you can see that only one of my 3 textures shows up (over top of the ade afcad) and theres even polys with the same texture on them that dont show up at all!


so far i havent had any problems with the textures i made "not showing up" after i export my .MDL
any idea what this could possibly be?
 
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Hi,

The one texture reported missing is not in your texture folder. Apparently you assigned it to some polygons in Gmax.

Maybe that's also where the grey polygons come from. I would check which Gmax material has it.
 
Hey Arno,
Thanks for the advice on this. I went to material editor and found a couple textures that had apearantly been used at sometime. the fix was to use the utility to remove materials from each individual poly, then reapply them. took approximately 5 minutes (after i sat for 4 hours yesterday trying to fix it!!)
Thanks again!
Tim
 
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