Polygon mapping in Flame.

[Michael Schlesinger]

robc wrote:

yes

just tried, you where absolutely right, I don’t know why it did not worked before, I must be doing something wrong… now I even more happy… this will save me sooooo much time in a lot of things. Although when I use the same map as an internal map in Action, I see a bit of the seams of the textures on the polygons, but can be fixed retouching a bit the texture.

Thanks!

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

which means u have to try and do some tests to see if u can adjust the mapping on the MAX side so that in flame u can simply use wrap…if thats at all possible 🙂

[Michael Schlesinger]

nop….. I did not change anything in MAX.. just loaded the texture into action… assigned as a texture.. selected warp.. turn off submaterial…
and that’s it

probably did not work in the first try because may be I selected the wrong aspect ratio in the texture when I imported it in Flame

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

well.thats all sorted now..try using expressions while moving these models 🙂

[Michael Schlesinger]

Well, almost there, I got what I was looking for, but I think that the next step will require some help form Autodesk, I may be wrong, but I think I’m not. Let me know please 😀

Here you can see two examples MIB
EGG In order to get this quality of Shading, note the smooth shadows, and the light bouncing in the surfaces, I have to turn off shading in action, because all the shading was actually done in MAX, so all OK till here, but now, I want to add some 3D Text or some other objects that now I want to be shaded, but you cannot turn on or off shading selectively for different objects, only generally for the whole Action module.
I know that can probably be achieved using more than one Action module, but I don’t think it can be so hard to add that option to the actual Action module for a future SP. It would much easier to use this technique, and I’m really happy with the result.

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