Zmodeler...

Can someone please explain to me how to get the Gp4 cars in to Zmodeler...

Extract the cars.wad into a folder, load up ZM and import a .gp4 file (shape file)

If u get a header locked error, the file has been locked by the author




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Thank you.

i'm painting a car, and using zmodler to view it.
so after a while i merged some wheels. then back to photoshop for some minor changes, and back to Zmod.
CTRL-R to reload the textures...
and it suddenly has reflections

why?



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Tony

erm...thats a tough one :|

Erm, go to View - Material Editor -

In the drop down box is a list of materials being used on your car. Click ni each one, and when viewing a material - look down to the bottom of the materials editor box and check the "Relfection Map" is unticked. Do this with all the materials in the drop down box

thats my best guess




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

but the question is how did they all get checked by themselves....

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CAn someone explian hov to edit the cars ...I men change the shape

I know that it's a stupid question but i really don't know how to change the shape...

Thanks eLlis. i solved it with the "Relfection Map" thing you mentioned. any idea why it is checked with some textures?



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Tony

hi,

I am having a heck of a time loading tga's onto the shape. The first tga will load ok, but when I try and go back and add the 2 tga and 3 tga it is all scrambled. I tried making sure they were flipped, but still no dice.

All I want to be able to do is load up my edited tga's, and see how things look. I also noticed the last time that there were some chrome bmps but I don't know how they got there.

Any suggestions?

i dont know much, but when the tgas are in the same folder as the car.gp4 they load automatically.
or
in the viewing box thing theres a square in the top left corner with 3D,Left,Top or something written. right click that square and go settings-textures-use textures.



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Tony

Hi,

Thanks Tony, that might be my problem. I'll try it out when I get home. Thanks.

No matter what I do, I am only able to get the tga 1 to load correctly, the other tga's no matter which car or carshape I try will not load in Z modeler.

Is there any other way to view modified textures other than Z modeler?

try gp4 genius.



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Tony

Using ZModeler, some options ( like reflections ) could be set automatically in the default installation...But this is not a problem, since, as previously said, You can uncheck this option in Material editor.
regarding tga files in the work folder You are using with ZModeler, You can't directly update those...If You have a tga file ( for example tga 1 ) and You want update it with a photoshop program, You can work tga file, but then You must reconvert ( with GP4 Master ) in tex file, and then again ( always with GP4 Master ) You must convert tex file in tga file, in the ZModeler work folder.
Only in this way updated tga files will be shown in a correct way in ZModeler ( otherway, You may see it flipped ).



nicol@cciarri

No matter what I do, I am only able to get the tga 1 to load correctly, the other tga's no matter which car or carshape I try will not load in Z modeler.

go to View - Texture Management - Texture Browser

Add all the TGAs into the browser

The go - View - Material editor

Click the drop down menu and click on the material at the top (not the default material). Then look down to the "primary texture" box - tick the box and press "load"

Select the trxture that goes with the material name, and do it for all the textures.

hopefully now ur textures will load :D




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps