[FSXA] Gmax and unwrapping

[Tejal Bernardo]

I'm training unwrap uvw ,a box with a texures sheets with diferents numbers, so applying diferents number to each face, just that, but in some way the textures appear in a wrong way, it's not centered as supposed must be, what could be wrong, should I apply an uvw map before?
I'll attch a image to explain better the question than this poor english., you will see the right side of the box (and all sides the same effect), is no well textured.

[tgibson]

Make sure the bitmaps are 24 bit BMP files, or PSD files. Other formats can be shifted in GMAX.

Hope this helps,

[arno]

Hi,

Usually I first do a uvw mapping to get the texture roughly in place. Then I use the uvw unwrap to position it exactly. But that is not required as far as I know.

Send from my phone using Tapatalk, so excuse the short sentences and possible typos

[bob5568]

do you know how to edit uvw mapping?

[Kai503]

There are many ways to do it. That's how I do it:

- Make sure every poly has an individual ID
- Apply the uvw modifier. Box mapping, length, width and heigth the same value.
- Apply uvw unwrap. Edit uvw's, select each ID and move it out of the box. Pick the texture and move each poly to the right place.
- Done

Kai

[Tejal Bernardo]

Thanks to all, I tried all those methods, I made a little trick and made a perfect square texture, 512x512 and cut the texture to show only the numbers, and worked, could be the texture format too, I think this was dxt1 because I get them from and addon, but I thought that if used in a scenery should be perfect to work for unwarraping, anyway you can understand how weird this things could look. thanks again.

[Tejal Bernardo]

It was not the texture, it was a bmp 24 bit 512x512 pixels. I convert the textures to jpg and all the same, but could be fixed anyway but I can't think of what could be the problem.

[Ztimbre]

Originally Posted by Kai503

There are many ways to do it. That's how I do it:

- Make sure every poly has an individual ID
- Apply the uvw modifier. Box mapping, length, width and heigth the same value.
- Apply uvw unwrap. Edit uvw's, select each ID and move it out of the box. Pick the texture and move each poly to the right place.
- Done

Kai

Hi, you can save some steps here....

No need to mess with material IDs at all, unless you are doing a multi-material.

-Apply uvw map to whole box, size as you say.
-Choose 'poly select' modifier. Chose one face.
-Apply 'uvw unwrap' modifier. Open and move face out of the way.
-Repeat for remaining faces.
-Apply poly select modifier and choose all faces.
-Apply 'uvw unwrap' modifier and position all faces as necessary.
-Collapse stack at end.

You can simply this even further by only doing 'poly select' for all the faces, and using the 'view selected' option in the uvw editor to view and position the face of interest.

Not trying to be rude, of course. As mentioned, there are many ways of doing this. I just hate to see anyone using materials ID to isolate polygons, since it is a very time consuming process!

[Tejal Bernardo]

A silly question, when you work with "multimaterial" how is supposed you get the "fsx material"?, not should the objects have fsx material '

[n4gix]

Originally Posted by Ztimbre

Not trying to be rude, of course. As mentioned, there are many ways of doing this. I just hate to see anyone using materials ID to isolate polygons, since it is a very time consuming process!

When a "cube" (box) is created, each face already has a Material ID assigned automatically...

[JRobinson]

Originally Posted by Ztimbre

-Apply uvw map to whole box, size as you say.
-Choose 'poly select' modifier. Chose one face.
-Apply 'uvw unwrap' modifier. Open and move face out of the way.
-Repeat for remaining faces.

Maybe I'm missing something as I've only built a few hundred models so far, but if you also apply a UVW unwrap to the entire box, can you not expand the modifier and choose "select face", then in the UVW editor click the little red triangle to hide unselected UVWs and move the selected face wherever you want? That's the way I've always done it anyway...

Jim