altering "in game" themes/looks

[knapman [FD]]

well thats not the way to do uvmapping, so i'd fallback to my previous post

[kamakazikilla]

alright... well could you at least tell me what tool to use in 3ds?? because i honestly have looked through at least seven tutorials on the subject and none of them tell/show me how to create any kind of .png file to apply to the mesh... i can make the mesh different colors, sure, but that doesn't help me any because it only changes the direct x file when it's imported (which means i only have one color of note for all five frets)

[knapman [FD]]

you apply textures with the material editor, press m

[kamakazikilla]

i understand that, i guess i just don't really get how to apply multiple UV maps to only one mesh, and then get them into that .png format from that point...

[David]

Feb 19, 2011 22:20:44 GMT kamakazikilla said:

i understand that, i guess i just don't really get how to apply multiple UV maps to only one mesh, and then get them into that .png format from that point...

But aren't now trying to do the opposite to that? You want to apply multiple meshes to a single Texture.
You shouldn't be trying to do Multi-Texturing.

The game will assign the correct texture, you just need to make sure that the HOPO mesh has a UV map linking to the HOPO area of the Texture and that the Normal Mesh is Linked to the normal area of the Texture

David

[knapman [FD]]

you aren't trying to apply multiple uv maps to one mesh, u have 2 meshes and each have their own uvmap, but they are positioned so if u were to overlay the 2 maps nothing exists in the same 2d space, ie there would be no overlapping

[kamakazikilla]

*sigh* you guys misunderstand...

there are two models, one for HOPO, one for standard
between the two of them, they both need to share the same uv map, half of each of those five uv maps need to be for the normal note, the other half for the HOPO... i completely understand that (although idk how to put them together yet) i just don't understand how to turn those uv maps into the .png format that the game recognizes and uses to put the color on the notes.... (also, if i put illumination on the notes, will they glow in the game?)

[knapman [FD]]

well they share the same texture not the same uvmap, these are not the same thing

but as the file u uploaded already has a png that seems to be ok im not sure what you don't understand with pngs, the file name is obviously wrong but im assume thats not the problem

and illumination will make the texture show brighter and be less effected by shading

[kamakazikilla]

well, for starters, try playing with it, the note doesn't really take the color of the .png like i'd assume it should, so idk what's up with that, and i also don't know how to make them share a texture (sorry, it seems i got some of the lingo wrong, which is why you guys didn't understand)

assuming i have ONLY my model/mesh (i think they're the same thing?) in 3ds, could you give a quick step by step as to how to get the correct texture for the HOPO and non HOPO?? and how to get both uv maps on the same texture??

[kamakazikilla]

alright, i'm pretty confident i FINALLY figured this out, now it's just time for me to do some work...

[kamakazikilla]

i'm almost done with regular and HOPO notes... i'll post a SS when i've done some touch ups... they aren't beautiful by any means, but they're pretty simple and GH styled

[kamakazikilla]

this is basically my work so far...

[knapman [FD]]

well done

[kamakazikilla]

lol, thanks... i'm so glad i finally made sense of that stuff... although my uvmaps are really sloppy looking, the notes look pretty good overall for my first try