RE: Texturing help?

["poenaru, radu" <poenaru.radu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Nice screenshots! 
	 
	Roger, no, you only need a single object for the solar panels (ie.
one big box :-) . If you are using 3DMAX , as you set UVW MapCoords
modifier, there is a U ,V , W  'tile' (default 1.0 on all three)

	Select the mapping type you want (probably box, though planar might
work better, select the axis of the plane, then enter the U,V,W (ie. the
number of times you want the texture to repeat on each axis).If you are lazy
about properly modelling the panels, just make sure you have an alpha chanel
on your textures (transparency), in the way to create the ilusion of
multiple small panels linked onto oneanother.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roger Burton West [SMTP:roger@firedrake.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:27 PM
> To:	orbiter@firedrake.org
> Subject:	Texturing help?
> 
> I'm bulding space stations. I want solar panels as on the ISS model.
> What's the best way to assign the textures? Do I really need one block
> for each separate "panel", or can I have one big box with the texture
> repeated on it?
> 
> Using 3DS Max and Msh_Maker_v1.2.
> 
> Very temporary (untextured) pictures of one of the models at
> 
> http://dayspring.firedrake.org/roger/CrystalPalace1.jpg
> http://dayspring.firedrake.org/roger/CrystalPalace2.jpg
> 
> (Oh yeah, I also want to be able to rotate _part_ of the station. Any
> DLL authors prepared to help?)
> 
> Roger