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help needed please regarding texture mapping

Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
edited March 2014 in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi

I am making a set of speakers and I am having problems with the sides of the shelf speaker, they have a slight curve and the texture is not mapping how I want it to.

can anybody help please?

Thanks
Adrian

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,254
    edited December 1969

    Can you show an image of the UV map

  • Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    Can you show an image of the UV map

    I am sorry, I don't understand.

    Is this the UV map ?

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,254
    edited December 1969

    No, this is what a UV map looks like. It seems that there are messed up UV's and its not carrying the texture properly.

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  • Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
    edited December 1969

    Ah!

    I am not using a UV map then.

    I am making the models in Bryce and sending them to daz studio, then adding the textures through the layered image editor.

    I guess that's where I am going wrong then. Will I need to send it hexagon and create a UV map for it or can I do that in daz?

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,254
    edited December 1969

    Are you using primitives in Bryce? I'll try to get someone that knows Bryce to help you out.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Unfortunately Bryce primitives aren't uvmapped as such, because Bryce uses procedural textures, or parametric mapping for image based textures. So yes you would need to take it into something like Hex to give it some UV coordinates.

  • Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
    edited December 1969

    I just use Bryce to make the shapes, then once they are cut I send them as white textures.

    I was just thinking,

    "if I export as an object (it will create it as a full solid object) (rather then broken pieces ) will this allow me to map the whole area as one rather then six seperate different pieces."

    ?

  • Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Unfortunately Bryce primitives aren't uvmapped as such, because Bryce uses procedural textures, or parametric mapping for image based textures. So yes you would need to take it into something like Hex to give it some UV coordinates.

    Thanks chohole

    I will try tomorrow as its late now :)

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,254
    edited December 1969

    Are you using the bridge for Bryce and DS

  • Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    Are you using the bridge for Bryce and DS

    I have been using "Send to Daz" in Bryce, I am presuming that is the bridge you are talking about.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Alpha01 said:

    I just use Bryce to make the shapes, then once they are cut I send them as white textures.

    I was just thinking,

    "if I export as an object (it will create it as a full solid object) (rather then broken pieces ) will this allow me to map the whole area as one rather then six seperate different pieces."

    ?

    I think so

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,254
    edited December 1969

    Yes that's the bridge. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what your issue can be. I map everything myself and texture it so I've never ran into this sort of problem. I also use a modeling app to do my models. I have no experience using primitives.

  • Alpha01Alpha01 Posts: 160
    edited March 2014

    ok I have done it :) I don't know how I have done it or why its done it, but its done it.

    I had to import the wood image into Bryce, add it as a texture material.
    Then I added it onto the shelf speaker surface.

    I then exported the shelf speaker as a .3ds file.

    I opened it in hexagon.
    Selected the sides mesh and sent that to daz studio.

    In daz I matched the material surface to the other sets of textures as the floor standing ones.

    And then the texture I originally was trying to paste on to it...
    Pasted on to it.

    Now my head hurts :)

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