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Feb 20, 2003, 9:50pm

I am hoping someone can help me with a problem I am having. Yes.. I'm
optimistic hahah :) Anyway.. I am learning how to use TrueSpace. The problem
I am having is with texturing. I made some dishes with a circular texture
and the result was fine, but when I made some cups it required a straight
texture not a circular one.. so I made one in photoshop. Not a problem as I
am used to manipulating textures. So then the cup looked great in TS.. but
in AW it looks like this :
http://www.geocities.com/redgarnet22/web/cup.jpg and the same thing
happened no matter where I used that texture
http://www.geocities.com/redgarnet22/web/carafe.jpg You can see where one
area is messed up each time I use it. I used the paint brush in TS as well
as the other painting tools to try to paint it. I use CobDump3 to convert to
rwx. I even tried to use Accutrans to convert the rwx back to a cob.. and
saw the problem in TS. I thought I had fixed it coz it once again looked
fine in TS.. but when I put it back in AW.. again the same result. Its very
frustrating because the problem is not visible in TS. Anyone have any
suggestions ???? :) I don't know if it makes any difference, but I have TS
5.1. Thanks Garnet

Feb 22, 2003, 6:25am

For dishes and bowls and such you should use a circular image that goes out
to the outer edges on the square of the image at the widest points of the
circle. Then apply a 1x1 UV in TS and then use Planar UV applied from the
top of the bowl, dish, etc (which is round) and you will have a circular
pattern applied correctly.

Paul

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Feb 23, 2003, 2:07am

Thanks Paul .. I was able to make the cup use the round texture using the
Planar UV . When I did this the design in the texture was wavy so I made
another bowl for the cup with more faces in it to make it rounder. That
smoothed it out some. It still doesnt tell me why the other texture messed
up but at least for the cup anyway, it looks better :) Do you know if theres
a setting in TS that will allow you to paint the different sides of a face a
different texture? I know you can add "Materialmodes double" to the rwx but
is there a setting in TS that you know of? thanks :)
Garnet

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Mar 2, 2003, 12:34am

yes just use the Paint Brush instead of the Paint Can and click on the face
(polygon) you want to paint the texture on. If you are using TS 5 you can
select that face and apply a UV to that face but that may result in more
verts in the object when you convert it to rwx. if you change the surface
settings it will add more verts for sure as well as making a separate
Protoinstance called Internal in the rwx. I really don't care for the way
Cobdump does some things.

Paul

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