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Material MapTo issue when Model Mapping have the same name

by elvince · in Torque 3D Professional · 07/12/2010 (4:07 am) · 3 replies

Dear all,

I have a annoying bug and I don't understand how to solve it except exporting my model with new material names.
Here the case:

Create 2 models: let's a girl & boy.
If in the model girl & boy material have the same name, even if you declare 1 material per model, one will be mapped to the 2nd one.

Ex:
Girl has head,leg,feet
Boy has head,leg,feet

In materials.cs of each model I created a Boy_Head material that mapto Head and the same with Girl_Head mapto head.
When I'm looking at my model in T3D shape editor, I have Girl head link with Boy_Head material.

it seems that the Key Criteria in the material name of the model and not the material name within T3D.

If I change the material link to Girl head to Girl_Head material, the boy head will map ti Girl_Head :(

If it's not a bug, I will appreciate to know how I should managed that.

thanks,
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Torque Owner elvince
Neo Studio
#1
07/12/2010 (4:52 am)
by reading the new doc, it seems that dts is using the diffuse name for the material name and if there are conflict, they can only being resolved by changing the model diffuse name.

Torque Owner TheGasMan
G.A.S. [+others]
#2
07/12/2010 (5:34 am)
it sounds like you found the key to this..
do you still need help ?

Torque Owner elvince
Neo Studio
#3
07/12/2010 (5:47 am)
no thanks.
I was clearly confuse to see that map_to was linked to the diffuse map name, so I will have to set with my artist a naming convention for all models to avoid this issue in the future!

now everything is back in order :D