Trouble with textures
 

I am doing a playable Montana class and every model I import Show's up black. I have the bumpenable turned off in the render controller so that isn't it.

Black means there is no texture at all. check through your .cfg and upc files in notepad to make sure the paths are correct

i was never good at that stuff but you have different channels (alpha channel i think) and if you dont apply them correctly it can cause washed out images and other issues such as weird colors and transparent things sometimes.

Turn of the lightmap. This generally is responsible for black renderings. Until you bake a new lightmap of course (I'm assuming you don't have one yet).

I don't know how to do either. If I put null for lightmap and normal it is very bright. If I do it for just lightmap the color becomes very flat. I do have adobe photoshop v8

does anyone know how to create lightmaps or give me a link to a tutorial on how to create them.

here it goes :
rodan54 [TEC] Ambient Occlusion Tutorial
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=136354

that's how I do it, but I also change the base colors from white to light gray and from black to dark gray, otherwise the contrast it too large -> white = shiny...

keltos

I have milkshape and cannot find a way to do a uv map for it.

post your model on filefront ? I have to do another uv map for miner too...

keltos

its there just go to my filefront page

done, will see what I can muster tomorrow.

keltos

thank you

right, so the ship is actually two objects :
the hull
the platforms

i am doing an occlusion map for both, there is already one in the folder that you sent, so making a new one is only necessary if you tinckered with the 3d model.

keltos

the one in the folder is incorrect it needs to be deleted I did get an eval version of 3dsmax 2009 so i did get a new occlusion map made but the ship appears very bright of dark i need to change the light and dark colors

occlusion map
 

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/976/occluws3.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7938/occlu2bi3.jpg


dl link :

http://files.filefront.com/montana+o.../fileinfo.html

I did it as I said with less black and white contrast. In this file you'll find both occlusion maps for the hull and for the platform. I started it at9 this morning and it just finished computing... on a core2duo 2.66 ghz !

so I did the wrong one ? grrrrrrr

keltos