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Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 16:04
by 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....

Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 16:59
by 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

Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 18:08
by 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

Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 20:02
by fmansam
i have made this
but it wont let me texture it!!!!!!

Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 20:09
by Rick Piper
Hi Neil
sounds like your texture is wrong size format
check your PMs for advice
Regards
Rick
Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 20:22
by 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!!!
Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 20:26
by 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
Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 20:40
by 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

Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 22:34
by 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
Re: FSDS guru's please help...updated!!
Posted: 27 Feb 2010, 17:10
by 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