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3d studio max textureing

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ScruffMastahB

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I am haveing a problem with my textureing in 3d studio max. If I make a box and have it broken down into 3 height segments and I want to make an image tile around the bottom row I can get it to look right on one side but it stretches on the sides. How can I get max to tile an image all the way around an object?
 
I'm pretty bad at texturing myself, but I think you might need to use UVW mapping, so you might try messing around with that.
 
Add a UV-mapping modifier, set it to "Box" -- or seperately select each of the bottom four faces and add (seperate) UV modifiers to all of them, set to "Face". Not tested, but that's the general idea.

A UV-wrapper does just that - "wraps" your model. Imagine that your texture is taking the shape of whatever UV-wrapper surrounding your model, and visualize that texture getting pressed against the faces of the model. . . . I'm sure 3dLinks has a better explanation.
 
Personally, I say unwrap UVW is the best way to texture. However its sort of advanced. If want to know how to do it, let me know I'll whip up a shotty tut for you.
 
ScruffMastahB said:
Thank you for responding to my thread,
If you could make a short tut for me that would be great
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Well then my frist qestion to you is do you have photoshop or something like photoshop (ms paint doesn't count)
 
pistola said:
Personally, I say unwrap UVW is the best way to texture. However its sort of advanced. If want to know how to do it, let me know I'll whip up a shotty tut for you.
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i dont find it advanced at all... its the only way i learned to texture. I could never get uvmapping to work right for me so i had to try something else....

:)

anyways, read the tutorials/manuals that came with 3dsmax. There is a good spaceship tutorial in there that will tell you how to texture in a nutshell.
 
Aye, if I remember . . . Max 6 ships with an airplane tutorial that explains mapping as well. I'm not sure which aspect of mapping it focuses on, though - like the above post said, the spaceship tutorial is worthwhile (I remember doing it :) ).
 
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