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Scenery Design Tutorial in gmax1.2

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nigelgrant

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I am a newbie at gmax and I am working my way through the SDK gmax scenery tutorial (for FS2002). I have created the house but I cannot find the applications for applying the texture.

I have gmax1.2 and the gmax Material Editor window is quite different to that in the tutorial. There is a "diffuse"tab? but it just takes me straight to the Colour window. I cannot find any references to "assign texture...." or "locate bitmap file" nor any other commands that might be the equivalent.

Can someone pls advise.

Nigel
Vancouver
 
Hi Nigel,

You might want to try the tutorial that came with the Fs2004 SDK. I think that has been updated for version 1.2 of GMax.

Personally I always assign the textures by dropping them from the material navigator (in file system view) on the parts I want them on. This way GMax creates the material automatically for you.
 
Thx, Arno. I downloaded the new tutorial and am half way through texturing the house by the tutorial method. I have a lot to learn. I will also try your method of texturing next.

Thx again
Nigel
 
Good to hear that. After a while you will find a method that you find to work easy. As with most things in GMax there is not one way of doing something. So in the end you will find some tricks of your own :).
 
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