Problem with textures- Help needed!

kurfürst · 12-26-08, 04:58 PM

Hello Kaleuns!

Because I wasn´t a good and following boy over the last months, Santa Claus didn´t deliver me a big present this Christmas and therefore I had enough time to rework my favoured IX C/40 Uboat!

I´m absolutely new to modelling, and therefore forgive me my somewhat unprofessional approach to the matter. I was unhappy with UBI´s late-war type IX C/40, and started to work on making a better one. I was inspired by photos of U-889, U-805 and U-858. This mainly means adding things like a snorkel tube, life raft containers, new compass housing in front of the conning tower, and so on.
Mainly cosmetics, but far more realistic than the standard UBIsoft model, I hope.

I`ve never ever worked with a 3D modeling program before, read my loooooong way through tutorials on subsim.com, and finally came up with a fairly good model, and this almost makes my proud like a peacock!

The only problem left are the textures. They are upside down and vice-versa, and I tried eveything (without success) to get them displayed on the model the right way.
For example, the textures are not shown on the new compass housing, and the snorkel tube looks somewhat transparent, see attached pics.
I don´t know what to do, and to stop at this stage is more than frustrating!
It´s like scratching on the door of the temple, but they won´t let you in!

Attached are some screenies of what I wanted to do (originals from U-190 and U-889) and my state of work at this moment. Would be great to finish it and give it to the SH IV and SH III community!

If there is somebody out there who´s far more able to modify textures than I am and can finish the job, please drop me a PM and I´ll forward my stage of work to him/her to finalize it. I absolutely don´t know what to do to get the textures right on the model!

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/37.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/37a.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/38.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/38a.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/39.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/39a.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/40.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/40a.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/41.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/41a.jpg

I´m desperatly hoping for somebody to help me!

Wishing You all a good jump into 2009,
Kurfürst

Sledgehammer427 · 12-27-08, 02:27 AM

everything acting weird usually doesnt have an attached texture.

have you lightmapped the addons?
by lightmap i mean to make a new wrap for the untextured object?
its hard to explain. but a few people around here know, and this is the wrong part of the forum to post in, you would have better luck in the Fleet boat mods workshop, where all the brains hang out...this is where you complain about how ur D2D download isnt working

also, make sure your textures are rotated properly, that will cause a little bit of irregularity

hope i helped!

flakmonkey · 12-28-08, 03:03 AM

Just looks as if you need to re-do the UV mapping before importing the models into sh4.
Were the textures correctly displayed within your 3d app before importing into the game??

DragonKing1990 · 02-13-09, 03:59 PM

How do you edit SH4 textures?

12-26-08, 04:58 PM	#1
kurfürst Chief Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guetersloh, Germany Posts: 310 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	Problem with textures- Help needed! Hello Kaleuns! Because I wasn´t a good and following boy over the last months, Santa Claus didn´t deliver me a big present this Christmas and therefore I had enough time to rework my favoured IX C/40 Uboat! I´m absolutely new to modelling, and therefore forgive me my somewhat unprofessional approach to the matter. I was unhappy with UBI´s late-war type IX C/40, and started to work on making a better one. I was inspired by photos of U-889, U-805 and U-858. This mainly means adding things like a snorkel tube, life raft containers, new compass housing in front of the conning tower, and so on. Mainly cosmetics, but far more realistic than the standard UBIsoft model, I hope. I`ve never ever worked with a 3D modeling program before, read my loooooong way through tutorials on subsim.com, and finally came up with a fairly good model, and this almost makes my proud like a peacock! The only problem left are the textures. They are upside down and vice-versa, and I tried eveything (without success) to get them displayed on the model the right way. For example, the textures are not shown on the new compass housing, and the snorkel tube looks somewhat transparent, see attached pics. I don´t know what to do, and to stop at this stage is more than frustrating! It´s like scratching on the door of the temple, but they won´t let you in! Attached are some screenies of what I wanted to do (originals from U-190 and U-889) and my state of work at this moment. Would be great to finish it and give it to the SH IV and SH III community! If there is somebody out there who´s far more able to modify textures than I am and can finish the job, please drop me a PM and I´ll forward my stage of work to him/her to finalize it. I absolutely don´t know what to do to get the textures right on the model! http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/37.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/37a.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/38.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/38a.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/39.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/39a.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/40.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/40a.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/arnd278/41.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...rnd278/41a.jpg I´m desperatly hoping for somebody to help me! Wishing You all a good jump into 2009, Kurfürst __________________ Last edited by kurfürst; 12-26-08 at 05:04 PM.

12-27-08, 02:27 AM	#2
Sledgehammer427 PacWagon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Drinking coffee and staring at trees in Massachusetts Posts: 2,901 Downloads: 280 Uploads: 0	everything acting weird usually doesnt have an attached texture. have you lightmapped the addons? by lightmap i mean to make a new wrap for the untextured object? its hard to explain. but a few people around here know, and this is the wrong part of the forum to post in, you would have better luck in the Fleet boat mods workshop, where all the brains hang out...this is where you complain about how ur D2D download isnt working also, make sure your textures are rotated properly, that will cause a little bit of irregularity hope i helped! __________________ Cold Waters Voice Crew - Fire Control Officer Cmdr O. Myers - C/O USS Nautilus (SS-168) 114,000 tons sunk - 4 Spec Ops completed V-boat Nutcase - Need supplies? Japanese garrison on a small island in the way? Just give us a call! D4C!

12-28-08, 03:03 AM	#3
flakmonkey Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Staffordshire, Uk Posts: 944 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	Just looks as if you need to re-do the UV mapping before importing the models into sh4. Were the textures correctly displayed within your 3d app before importing into the game?? __________________

02-13-09, 03:59 PM	#4
DragonKing1990 Swabbie Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 9 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	How do you edit SH4 textures?