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I have multiple planes that were made for runway markings. The planes have the textures applied as UVW mapped, and scaled/positioned within the scene. Everything looks good in FSX.

For performance reasons, I would like to have ALL the runway marking texures on multiple texture sheets using the UVW Unwrap.

The problem I'm having is that when I select all the planes to be mapped, I only get one poly that is showing in the UVW unwrap editor, after assigning all the planes with a material ID. I understand the Box and Plane object types have there own material id's selected. So my question is how do you do this? Is it to late since I already assinged the planes with UVW mapping? Can this be done?

Thanks
 
did you assign the same material ID to each poly, or a different one?

I'm struggling to figure out what you meant by: "For performance reasons, I would like to have ALL the runway marking texures on multiple texture sheets using the UVW Unwrap."
 
There are a total of 4 Planes that I would like to be on one texture sheet, and I have 2 diffent textures that will occupy 2 of the 4 planes.

I selected 2 planes which share the same texture as ID1, then selected the other 2 planes with ID2. I assume when the planes are selected, they turn to red?

I did watch the video tutorial that Bill W. made explaining texture mapping, but it for a BOX not a plane.

What I mean by "Performance reasons" is I do not want to have lets say 20 .DDS texture files in my texture folder, I would like to combine them to lets say 5 or 6 textures. So its easier on computer performance while running FSX.
 
Sorry, about previous reply. You replied almost the same time I did.
You need to make multimaterial in FSX.
All you need to do is making two material and applied to the object you want.
You have to choose the polygon ID= 1 then apply material one.
Then choose polygon ID=2 and apply the material two to that polygon. Those two polygon has to be in the same object.
The the multimaterial will be automatically made.

You cannot choose mutimaterial in Gmax since it will come out the FS9 material only, not FSX material.
 
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OK, that makes sense, I will give this a try.
Thank you.

Just an update to this problem...its working correctly jtanabodee
 
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