Is te texture tool in VXLSE III all we have?

Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

I really wanna texture this vxl i have right but i cant get 3dstovxl recognize any texture file i put in the folder. Ive tried pngs and jpgs. what do i use?

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

It's hard to say what your problem is with too little information.
Make sure the .3ds file and all corresponding textures are in thier own folder, run 3ds2vxl, make sure you have RA2 normals chosen and also make sure UseMaterials and UseTextures are ticked. Keep in mind that not all 3d models converted to vxl come out as planned. Most of the time they look decent but you will still need to do some touching up.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

well the program imusing for my 3d is blender and i can get it to look great in the program but when i put it hrough the 3dstovxl it never reads the textures. is there a certain size they have to be? like 512x512 or waht?

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

"scratches head while thinking", Um, Are you using a downloaded file from the internet? If so, are the textures .dds or have some other wierd extention? If so you'll have to resave the textures to something like .bmp, .png, or .jpeg. Then you have to reapply the textures to the model. You cant just rename the textures and expect it to work.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

no i exported the arwing model and thexures from brawl the texres are in bmp format now and the model in 3ds format.

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Thats fine, but did you reapply the textures to the model after you changed them to .bmp?

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

yeah

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

you might have to UV UnWrap it, then reapply the textures.
If you want you can send the model and textures to me and I'll have a look to see whats going on.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

yeah here. all the 3ds and bmp files are in there

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Well, it seems I cant help you with this one. 3dsmax wont except these .3ds files. Says they are in the wrong format.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

thats odd...well crap... does 3ds max import dae files?

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

yes, I can import .DAE

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

heres the dae

I also have another one that i would like help with if thats cool

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

looks like this is about the best i could get it. It needs a bit of touching up but you like?

I'll look into the other one tomorrow. to late now.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

That loooks awesome! Kinda looks like the body texture is rotated wrong but it makes it look ultra badass! thanx

Untrue · Jumpjet Infantry **Joined**: 16 Sep 2010

Cranium wrote:

looks like this is about the best i could get it. It needs a bit of touching up but you like?

I'll look into the other one tomorrow. to late now.

Holy shit. That's an awesome alien plain there man.

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

I would of had it for you earlier, but before I exported into .3ds I forgot to convert it into 1 single mesh, resulting in 8 different parts "which it dosent need for this type of vxl". So I had to redo the whole damn thing. But I think it came out better 2nd time around anyway.
Quick question though, when you convert the textures from .dds to .bmp do you just rename it to .bmp or do you actually open the image in a photo editor and resave it as .bmp? asking cause your textures still had the .dds format but had the .bmp ext.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

@ Untrue
The jet is from Starfox btw

@ Cranium
No i yanked them out of brawl as tgas and went into photoshop and saved em as bmps. y u ask?

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

was just wondering cause they still seemed to have that .dds type data which is why 3ds2vxl wasnt converting the textures properly. I converted them to .png and everything worked out well. Try to stick with .png for your textures. They seem to work the best with 3ds2vxl even though 3ds2vxl reads multiple different file types.

I noticed you havent downloaded the vxl yet.

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

dont get me wrong it looks way cool but i was hoping to get it to look like this

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

I can get max to duplicate that image, just I have to stretch the texture image. But converting to .3ds and then to vxl, it wont keep that data. So I'll have to redo the UV Coordinates to make the texture fit. I'll see what I can do. But this is turning into more than I expected. So if the other one turns out to need what this one does then I'm just not gonna do it. You'll have to get a hold of the Blender Noob2Pro tutorial and work with it.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

heres the updated vxl, i've inclosed all the new textures and .3ds file too.
This was as close to the original as possible. Enjoy Smile

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Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

YES!! PERFECT! THANX...I'm Actually trying to learn 3dsmax right now so ill just try the other one. thanx for the help much appreciated.

ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

i'm not sure i remember correctly but i think resaving the textures in a different format is enough and you don't have to reapply the textures in a 3d program. also i think compressed bmp files don't work in 3ds2vxl.

Chaotix000 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 25 Apr 2007

The bmps weren't compressed