Problem with models

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:55 pm

I can't texture models. When I make a skin image, it just displays one colour, not the image.
I'm using Wings3D. How do I texture models?

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:18 pm

I have no idea how to put the textures on them

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:28 pm

Blast!10 wrote:I have no idea how to put the textures on them

Why did you post then?

Anyway, You have model1.3ds which is the model (Obviosly) and you have to save the texture as model1.jpg

Toon Dog · Post by **Toon Dog** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:39 pm

dlcs18 wrote:
Blast!10 wrote:I have no idea how to put the textures on them
Why did you post then?

Anyway, You have model1.3ds which is the model (Obviosly) and you have to save the texture as model1.jpg

He's talking about puting the texture ON the model.
Importing color onto the model without a .jpg image in the file.

Take a look at jg's super couch and chair models, for example.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:45 pm

Toon Dog wrote:
dlcs18 wrote:
Blast!10 wrote:I have no idea how to put the textures on them
Why did you post then?

Anyway, You have model1.3ds which is the model (Obviosly) and you have to save the texture as model1.jpg
He's talking about puting the texture ON the model.
Importing color onto the model without a .jpg image in the file.
Take a look at jg's super couch and chair models, for example.

But what's wrong with having a jpg image with it?

Toon Dog · Post by **Toon Dog** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:47 pm

dlcs18 wrote:
Toon Dog wrote:
dlcs18 wrote:
Blast!10 wrote:I have no idea how to put the textures on them
Why did you post then?

Anyway, You have model1.3ds which is the model (Obviosly) and you have to save the texture as model1.jpg
He's talking about puting the texture ON the model.
Importing color onto the model without a .jpg image in the file.
Take a look at jg's super couch and chair models, for example.
But what's wrong with having a jpg image with it?

It might texture a part of the model that doesn't look good where it is.
Like red handels and yellow cloth instead of brown handels and red-yellow cloth.

popo · Post by **popo** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:35 am

I don't know anything about Wing3D but there are basically two ways to colour a model. One is with the inbuilt colouring tool where you can make different surfaces different colours and you don't need a jpg file. The other is by using one or more jpg files with a texture on them. These have to be assigned to the model, or parts of the model.

In AC3D it is done in the Texture Coordinate Editor. If a texture is loaded and not assigned then the model uses the predominate colour in the texture as a base colour. That is probably what is happening to your model.

This also happens if you have a model that is part textured and part coloured and you name the jpg file model#.jpg. The model then takes the predominate colour in the texture for the part of the model that hasn't been assigned. An example is the Flagpole model I made for Secret Worlds. The pole should have been white but the flag is mostly blue, and as the file was named model#.jpg the pole took it's colour from the flag texture and turned blue. It baffled me for a while when it happened.

Is there a help file with Wings3D? It should give instructions on assigning textures in there.

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:55 am

I did a bit of fiddling after importing an image and saw something that I had seen before.
For some reason it put the texture from the .jpg onto the model completely, and the model was textured.
I right clicked the model and went the "UV mapping", then I clicked "Direct",
then "Continue" after right clicking again, and "Unfolding". I don't understand what actually happened.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:15 pm

dlcs18 wrote:and you have to save the texture as model1.jpg

No I don't! when I used AC3D I named the skin images differently and I put multiple often, and it still worked!
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I imported an image and got to that CURSED!

"Unfolding" thing but all I got was that:

John925 · Post by **John925** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:24 pm

You have to unselect the surface. It can't make a map for only one surface.