3ds texturing tutorial
 

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/3ds/texture_stealth/
quite well made !


http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/3ds/..._stealth/2.php

assigned colors
 

following the first tutorial on the page I have assigned 10 ids to my tower and basic colors as to be able to separate them visually :

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/647...edcopiefa6.jpg

now the hard part : texturing !

texturing
 

it took a while but with patience and determination I got to replace all the plain colors by uvmapped textures...
here it is finally : the Jyunsen B coning tower textured:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6...ercopieeu6.jpg

now the hard one : the hull....

I find texturing in Lightwave so much easier that 3DS Max. I use Photoshop, Illustrator also. I'm using 3DS Max to model some u-boats and this may come in handy. I see you used triangulated your mesh. What type of smoothing method did you use- multi or super?

merge
 

I'm not all that good with 3ds, I followed the first tutorial to the letter...

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7...escopieeh3.jpg


btw how do you merge the tubes of the gato and another mesh ? I need them empty as well of course ! I pasted the tubes to the position where they should be on the JB boat, and now I'm stuck !!!:damn:

Try this: Select one of the meshes and under edit geometry use the attach button, click that button and then select the other mesh.

attach
 

it worked !
here's my "gutted fish" aka a Jyunsen B mesh with typ 18 bowels ;)
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4...shcopieju4.jpg

I then edited the mesh to cut out the part where the tubes are located :
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4...owcopieay4.jpg

now the texturing begins.. will do as you say mykhail, that'll give me at least one uv map :-?

mapping layout
 

Then it's up to you to do a good mapping layout.

How do you do that Mykhail ???

collapse
 

is it the "collpase stacks" function ?


http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/4...ustbuckpf3.jpg

new
 

I can't seem to be able to get this (see below) in game, I don't understand how to export the textures with the .obj, I must be really thick....:oops: :damn:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4...exturedhv5.jpg

wings3d
 

I downloaded wings3d 0.99, a cute little program that allows you to draw automatically (good for me !) a map of all the objects, right now I'm doing the coning tower. I made a jap flag for this test, look how it appears in both the map and the 3d view.

With wings3d you can select a place on the 3d model and it selects the part in the map windows : usefull to know which is which:D




http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6...ngcopiemc0.jpg


the tutorial for wings3d I use :

http://www.davidbrinnen.com/tut_wings_3.html

jyunsen Tower
 

I created the map with wings3d, then opened it in photoshop, copied it and pasted it back -> you now have 2 layers, then I went on the top layer, used the magic wand tool which created a mask of the different limits, filled it with red, so now I had a red mask over everything.
piece by piece then, verifying in wings3d which is which, I imported bits of texture, each take up one layer (I have 45...) then saved a copy in bmp, renamed it the same as the original one, and refreshed the file (see tutorial link at bottom) and there it is :


http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7976/wipcopiezr4.jpg

tutorial link :
http://www.davidbrinnen.com/tut_wings_3.html

Awesome!! :up:

Some critiques here: I'm looking at your mesh and it looks mighty confusing. Just how on earth do you control your mesh? Why did you use an HDR Modifier for smooting instead of turbo or mesh smooth? I'm modeling a Type XXI hull and decided to use box modeling technique. I applied Mesh Smooth and it turned out ok. Your texture application looks wrong (check the elongated rust on the lower hull part).