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Need Help With Lithunwrap

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Hey everybody,

I am learning how to make planes for FSX and now I am at the point where I need to make a texture. I have read that Lithunwrap was good to use for making UV maps, so I downloaded it and tried it, but I didn't get much out of it. When I tried to import my .mdl as a skeleton (if that is even what you are supposed to do) and it gave me an error message. It says "there was an error reading the file"

I am very lost when it comes to this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

But then again, maybe getting into Lithunwrap is getting ahead of myself. Is there a simple way to create a UV map from Gmax that I should use insteas of Lithunwrap?
 
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You know, the next time you register somewhere you might want to consider a different "username..." :rotfl:

Using LithUnwrap with GMax is a two step process...

1. Select the object(s) in GMax for which you wish to generate a mesh template bitmap, and export as an .md3 file.

2. Start LithUnwrap, Load the .md3, then immediately Save/UV Map, select the size you need (1024x1024, 512x512, etc.), and the desired options, naming the bitmap as you desire.

Step #1 seems to be your immediate problem, because you evidently havent downloaded and installed the Quake (.md3) export module.
 
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