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craigt47 said:
Interesting read. Thank you. 1 question; how do I make sure I am not using animation? Odd question I know, the reason for the question is when exporting to MCX I get loads of error messages regarding missing animation. I cannot work out why. I think it might be becuase of the use of texture nodes.
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I think there might be keyframes in you scene, which is what causes the issue.... You can check by selecting all and opening a dope sheet editor screen (like one opens a node editor screen) and see if there is anything there.
 
F747fly said:
no see you are using blender notes and that won't work. Go back to blender render, create a normal material and assign the texture in the tab next to the materials tab (to the right of it, the checkerboard icon)
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So i am no seeing black and white checkered boxes in MCX, which i am guessing means that MCX is picking up there is a required texture to be applied.
 
craigt47 said:
So i am no seeing black and white checkered boxes in MCX, which i am guessing means that MCX is picking up there is a required texture to be applied.
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True, but it means it cannot find the texture it should display (either no .DDS version available or it is somewhere in a folder stucture)
 
craigt47 said:
Ok, so now i need to convert all the textures into .DDS?
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Yeah. Bes sure to have the files in a scenery & texture folder structure so mcx will find the textures.

Note that when converting the textures need to be flipped vertically. Depending on the tool you use this will happen automatically or you will have to do it yourself.
 
dave hoeffgen said:
Yeah. Bes sure to have the files in a scenery & texture folder structure so mcx will find the textures.

Note that when converting the textures need to be flipped vertically. Depending on the tool you use this will happen automatically or you will have to do it yourself.
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What tool does it automatically? At the moment I am editing in photo shop, manually sending DTX flipping and exporting and applying. There must be a better way to do this!
 
craigt47 said:
What tool does it automatically? At the moment I am editing in photo shop, manually sending DTX flipping and exporting and applying. There must be a better way to do this!
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So you are exporting directly from Photoshop?
Flip, export, undo the flip and save. That's how I do it with GIMP.
The easiest way would be a command line driven conversion tool with all the parameters (output format, flip or not, mipmap filter formula etc) as arguments so one could write a batch file to bulk convert all the textures with one click.
Sadly I don't know of any tool like that.
 
craigt47 said:
What tool does it automatically? At the moment I am editing in photo shop, manually sending DTX flipping and exporting and applying. There must be a better way to do this!
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Search on google for Nvidia photoshop DDS plugin ;)
 
The NVidia Texture Tools (which contains the NVidia DDS plug-in) doesn't flip automatically,... the only tool that I know of that can, due to the options, is ImageTool (part of the SDK).
 
Pyscen said:
The NVidia Texture Tools (which contains the NVidia DDS plug-in) doesn't flip automatically,... the only tool that I know of that can, due to the options, is ImageTool (part of the SDK).
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Hi,

You can in the settings. In fact it is a really good tool for Photoshop. Highly recommended
 
Pyscen said:
The NVidia Texture Tools (which contains the NVidia DDS plug-in) doesn't flip automatically,... the only tool that I know of that can, due to the options, is ImageTool (part of the SDK).
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Except that it can and it can be set up to do this automatically when exporrting and importing :)
 
I was referring to batch mode,... yes it is a great tool... of course the batch mode probably depends on the particular version of Photoshop (if there is a batch conversion process available, and if the plug-in allows a batch mode process within Photoshop) used.

I think GIMP's plugin does allow a batch mode... will have to research it....
 
Pyscen said:
I was referring to batch mode,... yes it is a great tool... of course the batch mode probably depends on the particular version of Photoshop (if there is a batch conversion process available, and if the plug-in allows a batch mode process within Photoshop) used.

I think GIMP's plugin does allow a batch mode... will have to research it....
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Arrr ok. Understand. I have not found a batch mode. I just edit in PH save as dds and hit the flip switch, save in the loction. All done.
 
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