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Topic: Wings suck.....
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Aladar
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posted 10-08- 12:49 PM
   
Wings are a biotch to texture map, you have to cut it in half (ailerons and flaps included, ughh...), but I think I learned alot. I also learned to texture map as you go. I just finished both wings, mapped for your camoflaging pleasure. He he he, no peaking at my work  you can keep looking for updates in my sig, when its done, you'll have a picture.------------------
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Nat
Pilot
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posted 10-08- 12:55 PM
why cut the wing in half? I mean OK, the texture needs to have the wing "spilt" into 2 or 4 parts for the upper and lower wing texture, but I've never had to split the wing itself, I'm I missing something here?IP: Logged |
Razer
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posted 10-08- 01:10 PM
yes, you have to cut the wings in half to map the top and bottom. only if you want to be able to paint the top differently from the bottom.  wings are fun, not a biotch. IP: Logged |
Nat
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posted 10-08- 01:13 PM
thats not how I mapped the second level LODs, is this a thig peculiar to Ac3D then?IP: Logged |
Aladar
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posted 10-08- 01:33 PM
Nat, sounds funky, how do you do it again? Anyways, its a mess when you chop it all up, cause then you have to re-connect them. Anyways, on to the tail!IP: Logged |
Razer
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posted 10-08- 01:38 PM
it may just be an AC3D thing..IP: Logged |
Nat
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posted 10-08- 01:51 PM
the way I do it is to "Attach" the flaps and ailerons to the wings, then use "select faces" ticking "ignore backfaces" and select just the top surface by dragging a box over it, then I can map them. After that I rotate the model and select just the bottom faces (now ontop so you can see whats going on). Once you've mapped those, rotate the model back and detach the flaps and ailerons and they keep the textureing, just export them now.Hope that helps some Aladar ~Nat~ IP: Logged |
Aladar
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posted 10-08- 02:10 PM
Seems like that is a helluva lot easier, actually, I don't think it is just a max thing, all I have to do is..... no, no nevermind, that wouldn't work, oh well, its still works this way.IP: Logged |
Razer
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posted 10-08- 02:14 PM
it can be done, looking back over it while working on a new model, if you select the bottom of the wing, cut-away object but don't move it, you can hide the bottom of the wing. then map the top, unhide all, hide the top then map the bottom. Then just conn the vertices and optimize, flip normals, flip normals again then smooth. [This message has been edited by Razer (edited 10-08-2000).] IP: Logged |
Sv
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posted 10-08- 09:05 PM
But what happens to perpindicular faces Nat? I do it the way Razer posted. It only gets tricky in really messy spots, like the Morane-N and EIII wings - even then it is not too anoying. Still, a plugin that lets you select all visable polys of an object (like the 3dsmax ignore backfaces command) would be helpful.
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