posted 11-27- 11:39 AM               

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Originally posted by RVW:

I have alway's Mapped the Fuse Vertical in The ZY window (Or the Right top Ortho In AC3D)
Now that I got the Xy to Show The Texture mapp in This window...Can I?
Turn the Fuse In the window and It will be Horizontal then Mapp it with the XY Cordinates Then turn it Back to the zy window
Vertical and Import and it still has the Texture even after this Procces?
I have seen Skin Textures of this from
alot of you Guy's that it's Horizontal and always wanted to know this.

And I need too Know
so i can be Dead Accurate on My Fuse mapping..
It would make it Alot better than Lining up in the 3D window...It's a real pain
Thank's for the Help....
( Forgive if this post the second time..around
And it Did....)

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posted 11-27- 11:48 AM               

If you map a part, unless you REMAP it, the mapping co-ords stay put.

It might help to think of it this way ( it does for me!!! )

When you 'map' a texture onto an object, you are effectively telling the model where each of the vertices sits on the texture tile. The map button takes those vertices in your model part.

If you move those vertices, they keep the texture information. This is why you 'stretch' the texture if you move vertices after mapping. You can move teh model all over the place, rotate it etc. and the mapping stays fine.

If you want to map, say, a fuselage, but want to map the top, left side and right side onto different bits of texture, then you cut the model up so the parts are seperate.

I just did that with my Gotha fuselage. I have mapped top, bottom and sides seperately to avoid the yucky striping effect you get sometimes. I split the faces up so the parts were seperate, then mapped each one. Finally, I merged them back. The vertices keep the mappign info, and it is fine.

er.... rambling post .... but I think I answered the question!!!!

once you map an object it stays mapped wherever you move it or however you rotate it!!

posted 11-27- 11:59 AM               

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In the old Beta of AC3D, textures only showed up in the one window, but release V3.0 cured that

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posted 12-13- 11:00 AM               

If you make your "texture tile" in one window, you can always rotate it to use it in one of the other windows (although it is a little harder to line up when you can only see it in the 3D window) This way once you get it the right size, you can map any surface of the model without having to make a new texture tile. You can also rotate the model itself, of course, but that gets confusing.

Just be sure to do a "remap vertices-front, side, or plan" before you map the part, because sometimes when you rotate the texture tile, it will "flip" when you remap the part, so you need to make sure it's right-side-up before you map.