FSDS guru's please help...updated!!

[fmansam]

Hi all

well i have made a very very crude model of a sidewinder today....

gotta brush up on my texturing but it's all slowly comeing together....

[DaveB]

A sidewinder-firing fire engine!! Excellent

Well done mate. Everyone has to start somewhere and you're much further than I ever got

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

HI Neil

There ya go

If you go to poly mode and select the polys on the end of the tube...then F2 and change the smoothing group to 0 if flat or 2 if it has shape and that will fix the balloon look it has at present

[fmansam]

i have made this

but it wont let me texture it!!!!!!

[Rick Piper]

Hi Neil

sounds like your texture is wrong size format

check your PMs for advice

Regards
Rick

[fmansam]

Hmmm....

i have checked all sizes, re measured etc etc

nothing...

it just will not accept texture although it says it's assigned!!

borrow, i liked that cannon.....make another i guess!!

lol i think it went wrong somewhere in the part merging process!!!

[Rick Piper]

Hi Neil can you post the texture here ?

May not be in right BMP format

try unassigning it then start again

I have spent hours trying to assign a 512 x 511 texture more than once or a 32 bit bmp

or you still have points selected in the part (it won't texture if any points are still selected) bet it's this one

I don't merge anything and never have (join part ?)
Regards
Rick

[fmansam]

hmmmm...have selected and joined all parts....

then tried all ways to assign texture......

here is what the gun looks like when i assign... all parts selected

[Rick Piper]

Hi Neil

Now you need to go to Edit, Unslect all

then open in point mode and do the same

you don't want anything selected when you apply the texture

you just want to have the part you want to texture as the current part (but not with any part of it selected as such

you must be in Part mode when you texture
it won't texture in point or poly mode

I am running out of PMs so best keep messages in here mate as i have 200 PM s now (not all from you mate)

Regards
Rick

[Rick Piper]

Hi Neil

Did you fix it mate ?

I only mentioned about PMs as my PM box is full mate
don't mind guideing you at all
it's no trouble at all honestly

Regards
Rick