Texture Mapping in 3D Max

#1 Is the texture a power of 2? (that is 64, 128, 256, 512 etc pixels). That seem to be the most common reason for textures not showing up.

#2 Hello ronald, how do export it? direct in 3d max 6 or with an exporter and which exporter do you use? i ask this because i also want to export things from 3d max 6.

thanks for reply

#3 @Magnus,
Yes the texture is a power of 2. (256). I'm following this tutorial. http://www.garagegames.com/docs/tge/general/ch08s03.php
Let me know if you can figure out what I did wrong?

Ron

@Bauer,
I used an exporter. Follow this tutorial. http://www.garagegames.com/docs/tge/general/ch08s02.php

If anyone gets this to work witht the texture let me know where i went wrong.

#4 It should export alright if you follow the tutorial, you can always send me your files (my email can be found in my profile) and I'll have a look if you did something wrong.

#5 I followed the tutorial and its exporting ok. Its just the texture won't show up on the sphere in Show Tools so I think it won't show it in the game. I think I'm doing something wrong in 3D Studio Max cuz the texture doesn't show up on there also before I export it. If you know how to texture in 3D Max, I can follow your steps instead of the tutorial. I'll email you my files so you can see where I went wrong.

#6 Okay, the problem is as I figured pretty simple... You have to assign the material to your model. Select the model and click the "Assign material to selection" button in the material editor.

#7 Thanks Magnus. Texture shows up now. Now I'm running throught the rest of tutorial. Do you have any idea how to install macroscrips into 3D max.

#8 Depends how the script is set up.
Usually just grabbing the script in windows and dropping it in the max viewport will do it.

#9 I'm trying to install the adjustLODs.mcr from the max filepack. Do I just drop it into the viewport and expect something to happen or do I go under MAXscript and simply run the script. It also says I should click the AdjustLODs button afterwards. Where is that located? I'm not used to MAX yet. Just started using it yesterday so I'm a bit confused by its setup and interface.

#10

Quote:Do I just drop it into the viewport and expect something to happen or do I go under MAXscript and simply run the script.

Either should work. But nothing "visible" will really happen other than that the script gets installed.

You need to add the button to a toolbar, check the max documentation (specifically in the chapter "Customizing the user interface") how to do that.

#11 Sorry but I don't have any kind of max documentation. For some reason my helpfiles do not work either. I've also searched the net for anything but nothing comes up.

#12 Then I can't help.
The software comes with a couple of huge books with all the documentation, if you lost yours call discreet and I'm sure they can arrange a replacement.

#13 Ok, the main problem about the documentation is, that is really hard to find

"Renumber ..." and "Embed Shape"
They are in the DTS-Utility-Menu (Look at the hammer symbol)

So after finding this, all things worked. But this is just my case. I think there should be a better explanation about where you find "Renumber .."-Button in the Documenation of Torque.

Thanks and just for the moment