Mapping/Texturing in Zmodeler

Can anyone give a few pointers on where to start? I am working on a touring car, but so far all I have been able to do is map a body colour and a window colour. I want to know how to do detail work, like ads on the doors etc. Any help would be appreciated, cheers! :D

there's probably tutorials somewhere but lets c if i can remember..!!
Add your material/texture in material editor first then to map objects onto faces switch to object faces mode, and select [select single] in SEL mode. Then select the faces u want to map [should turn red], if you want the bonnet mapped use top view or doors then which ever side view. Then select your texture/material for those faces' attributes [ctrl A i think for attributes] So now ur faces know which texture to use u gotta map em.
Think it's Surface, mapping, assign UV in object faces mode with ur faces selected in red.. change any view except the view ur textures are facing i.e not the one u assigned ur material to - to UV mapper view and then right click anywhere in the view where u assigned ur attributes. Then all the faces that were selected should appear in the UV mapper view. Switch to object mode and turn SEL mode off, then reshape the faces in UVmapper view to fit the texture in that view. ZM uses tga for materials so if you save a tga as hi_bonnet convert it to tex and rename to hi_bonnet_1. Bizarre i know, just remember xxx.tga = xxx_1.tex.........
Lot of stuff there, hope it helps - when i started using it i got no help at all until i stumbled accros a tutorial which is no longer available!! GLuck

Cheers very much, I will have a play with that.

Also, can I draw several bmp's for different parts of the car, or does it need to be all one texture? Cheers! :D

You can do as many as u like just as long as xxx.tga = xxx_1.tex ..I made a SauberC21 a while back that had around ten different tex files. Or if all your tga's [not bmp's] are ready u can stick em all in one and then map faces to it's parts - like regular GP4 tga's.

alternativly, just click onto faces level, click the rectangular sellect tool, use shift and ctrl to add or subtract faces from your selection then click assign Uv and/or reset uv both methods will do though :D

infact thats a bit simplistic description i will show you on msn



Post Edited (04-13-03 18:25)

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