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Has anyone had the problem of gmax re-texturing parts that have had textures and mapped.Everything looks fine in gmax.All textures are correct and formatted for fsx.Export with no errors but in fsx all but one part of the model have the same texture.
stewart haworth
 
This sounds a lot like the FSX material bug -- GMAX can give two FSX materials the same name, so it pays to check and rename any duplicates before exporting.
 
You need to check your texture files for FSX: it sounds like you have saved the same file as .dds for your various textures.
 
hi tom
no all textures have unique names.Only using 4 textures.24bit for gmax and formatted dxt1 for fsx.If I do each model and render it save as it's own bgl everything is fine so not texture.Do the same model and place it in another application and it's fine.I think its something to with gmax,only just started to use it again.If I remember bill told me quite a while ago that gmax retains some texure memory and this can cause this problem.Stumped.
sh
 
found it! In the navigator I found a duplicate texture with different bitmaps.How this happened I do not know,each object had its own bitmap how they swapped is a mystery.
sh
ps Manchester uk now will have the new tower.
 
I had a similar problem but on a much greater scale. If you let this really get out of hand, Gmax starts to fall over.

Glad you found it!
 
stewart286 said:
found it! In the navigator I found a duplicate texture with different bitmaps.How this happened I do not know,each object had its own bitmap how they swapped is a mystery.
sh
ps Manchester uk now will have the new tower.
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You need to start using the precise names for things...

In Max/GMax bitmaps are assigned to Materials, so what you found apparently was as mentioned above, a duplicated Material with different bitmaps assigned.

HINT: Always rename your FSX Materials yourself with something meaningful, such as perhaps the bitmap's first name. This will absolutely prevent two Materials from having the "same name."

Max/GMax will quite cheerfully create multiple materials with the same names..
 
My problem is that GMAX crashes when I try to rename materials, and I don't know when it's "safe" to do so.
 
Tom, it's "safe to do so" only when you have the material navigator window open, if you don't have the material nav window open gmax will crash every time :) .

Jim
 
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