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Problem with shaders (solved)

hesperasmithhesperasmith Posts: 52
edited July 2018 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I'm having a problem with IRay shaders that normally work fine and I can't work out what step I'm missing.

I imported an obj and set up surfaces on it using the surface editor, applied the IRay Uber Base to them all, now I'm trying to apply IRay materials to those surfaces, but not matter what I do they always come out in render looking like coloured plastic with no detail, despite the surface showing all the correct maps and settings as far as I can tell.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,871

    Does the object have a UV map?

  • hesperasmithhesperasmith Posts: 52

    Ah no it doesn't, is there any way I can create one? 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,871
    edited July 2018

    You can take the obj file into a modeling program, like Blender, and create a UV map. There are also standalone UV mapping utilities that you could use. I have no personal experience with doing this, though, so I can't guide you through it.

    Edited for spelling.

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  • hesperasmithhesperasmith Posts: 52

    Oh ok, well thanks for letting me know what the problem is. 

  • hesperasmithhesperasmith Posts: 52

    Ok that wasn't the problem, I created and loaded in a UV map for it and it made no difference. 

    Can anyone else think of what the problem might be? 

  • hesperasmithhesperasmith Posts: 52

    Ok I fixed it, finally, by using the Update Geometry from the copy I created with UVs, for some reason just importing the UVs straight to it didn't work.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,871

    Thanks for posting the solution you found. Please edit the title of your thread to add (Solved), so people know that you don't need help with it anymore. Click the little gear icon to the right of the bookmarking star on the title line of your thread to edit it.

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