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FSX Gmax texture crop function not exported in fsx

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Hi friends
I am using GAMX 1.2 for FSX .. I create a bitmap image 1024x1024 to put there all the small textures for the secondary parts of the aircraft.
Because the function CROP is available.
The problem is that applying the cropped part of the image ... everything is OK in Gmax, but exporting in FSX that's no way to see it....
Seems that the object is displayed with the complete image not the cropped part only. I did not forget to check the "Apply" tag ,after cropping, in the map parameters.
Do you know where is my mistake ?

Thanks a lot for any help ...

ciao
Ennio
 
Don't use the crop function.

That, unfortunately, is your mistake.

Create your textures and map to their exact proportion.
 
Read the Help files and learn about UVW Maps and the UVW Editor.
 
hcornea said:
Don't use the crop function.

That, unfortunately, is your mistake.

Create your textures and map to their exact proportion.
Click to expand...

:) Ohhhh , yes Ok ... I understand .... the UV MAP is not the right way to texture ....
thanks a lot...

Ennio
 
No no .... you can (and will) use the UVWMap function and UVW unwrap function.

Don't use the "Crop" function.

UVW Mapping is fractional (each dimension being 0.0 to 1.0)

You must map to the same texture dimension you are going to use in FS. Crop just completely muddles this.

Design the textures for the sheet, and map to them.
 
Could explain e little dit what means "fractional" ...
sorry ...

Anyway I will create a bitmap whit the textures of 2 objects and by UVWMAP I'll selct which part of it should be for the object and which for the other mouving the map along ...
without using CROP...

I will tray ....
Thanks..
Ennio
 
By fractional .... I mean that the UVW coordinates that you map are stored as a proportion (or "fraction") of the overall dimensions of the map/texture.

Thus whether the texture 1024 or 512 or 256 the "relative" position on the sheet is the same.

I have no idea how a texture crop can be exported from Gmax, but it is unnecessary and will confuse.

WRT Chrome, that is dependent on material settings.

Learn:
Geometry --> Map --> Unwrap --> Export

Then:
Complex material settings.
 
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