Viper2000 Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 Are there any programs out there for 3d max that enable you to paint on the 3d object? If not then how do I texture one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epsilon 5 Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 I couldn't say how, but I know there's a way to "unwrap" a texture off a model to work on ... ahh .. found something .. quote:first you need a texture, I have been using photoshop 7 for this: first I create at a 512x512 or 1028x1028 square this is going to be my texture and I save it as a tiff maybe 'texture A' now each time I add an element to the texture I put it on a seperate layer, so one layer for green colour, another for weathering, another for plane markings etc. In max I open up the texture palette and load in 'texture A'and in the diffuse colour channel. Now each change I make to the texture in photoshop and save is easily loaded into Max by just clicking on the 'Reload' button. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To map an object I have been using ' Unwrap UVW'the First apply texture A to object. Click on the object and then in the modifier pallet choose 'unwrap UVW' With this turned on you can now click a specific polygon or select a group, then hit the planar map button. A new window will open displying the texture map and on it will be the polygons you have just selected. move these polygons to the part on the texture map with required image and repeat. Takes ages and is very boring Took me around 15-20 hours to add texture map to emily But one you have mapped the object all you have to do is alter the texture in photoshop and reload into max. Unfortunatly I dont think that the textures show up as well in the veiwports in Max 3.1 as they do in Max 4. I also have 2 monitors so that I can have photoshop on one and 3DS Max on the other so I can follow whats going on otherwise there are just too many windows open The plane, untextured. What the texture gives Textured plane Stuff comes from Blank [ 12-12-2002, 11:47 PM: Message edited by: Epsilon 5 ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper2000 Posted December 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 You have no idea how much this has just helped me. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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