chapter 1 tutorial help

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Post by SkaterKid // Feb 24, 2008, 1:13pm

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I just purchased TrueSpace 7.51 and I was doing the chapter one tutorial from the manual and ran into some trouble on the Creating A Mechanical part section and was wondering if I could find some help in this section of the forums. My problem is that when I go to add the rough material to the finished tool it never looks like it dose in the tutorial. The rough material looks weird as it changes color rapidly and is not smooth like the tutorial. What did I do wrong?


Mine looks like:

Post by spacekdet // Feb 24, 2008, 7:55pm

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Try painting the object with auto-facet smoothing. If that fails, try smooth or faceted.
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You also may have to apply a UV map to the object.

Your settings on the rough shader may also need to be tweaked- try changing the scale and amplitude.

Post by TomG // Feb 25, 2008, 4:05am

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I'd try applying a UV map to it, I'd try cubic, then spherical, then shrink wrap, to see which looks best. Let us know if that makes any difference!


HTH!

Tom
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