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X3modeller

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material editing issues

Posted 12-Feb-2008 2:52 AM

running Vista Basic w/ DirectX10 on AMD64x2 4800+ w/M2A-VM mainboard, 4GB 667MHz K RAM, and ATI 2400 PRO 256MB video card

seem to be experiencing an issue with gmax 1.2 material editor. issue being that my material application is applied to the whole model instead of selected regions; also, can only use Heidi - no Open GL or Direct 3D; never had that--or the other--issue with XP with DirectX 9c

any help would be appreciated. though i realize it may not be an OS or hardware issue; i believe it is as the same thing occurs when i attempt to change the textures on a fully textured model that i imported for scaling and ended up running some tests on.

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RE: material editing issues

Posted 15-Feb-2008 10:58 PM

Normaly, applying a material to an object where all faces have the same ID would result into the whole object having the texture applied.

If you want only parts of the objects to have your texture, you will have to create as many different polygon ID as you have different materials to apply on it. The polygon ID is on the editable mesh. You can select all polygons/faces of a specific ID or change the ID of any groups of polygons/faces. Then once all the IDs have been setup, you need to create a multi/sub material and in it, you have to set up as many sub materials as you have polygons/faces IDs. Then when you apply material #2, all IDs=2 will have that texture applied.

X3modeller

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RE: material editing issues

Posted 17-Feb-2008 12:04 AM

thanks for responding,

its odd that i never had to do that with XP; i could just select polys and apply textures. the texture application would--i suppose--have written the id to the material. still; i did try to assign material id to individual poly's and found that it did not have the desired effect. not sure what happened there.

Currently trying to do a dual-boot OS on my system so i can move between XP and Vista; to be honest, going back to XP was a nightmare.

running different system configuration now as well; switched to an M2N-E mainboard, and an 8500 GT video card. perhaps it will help to resolve some of the issues; though XP had a hernia with the mainboard, and Vista had to update the Asus and Nvidia drivers to fix problems generated by them--too bad XP can't do the same.

:)


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