Some texture questions

[torus]

2 questions I have:

a) How are textures applied to misc_models (nothing fancy, just standard nex textures) in either .ase or .md3? When I tried to use the "surface inspector," and entered in the name of the texture, it didnt do anything. What's the trick?

b) Has anyone had success with the .md3 exporter/ase exporter for blender in terms of textures? The model export works fine, but the textures wont export, or dont show in Radiant.
Thanks

[KadaverJack]

a) How are textures applied to misc_models (nothing fancy, just standard nex textures) in either .ase or .md3? When I tried to use the "surface inspector," and entered in the name of the texture, it didnt do anything. What's the trick?

MD3 stores the texture path in the model itself, you have to set the texture in your 3d app. (or you can use http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ ... 070412.zip to change the texture). No idea how ASE handles textures, but i guess it also stores the texture name in the model (and since ASE is a plain text format you can change it with any text editor)

b) Has anyone had success with the .md3 exporter/ase exporter for blender in terms of textures? The model export works fine, but the textures wont export, or dont show in Radiant.

What are you using as texture path? The path should be relative to data/textures/, so for data/textures/foo.tga you should set the texture to foo.tga.

[tZork]

In ase it preddy easy provided your exporter setup the UVs correctly.

you are looking for the blok[s] similar to this:

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*MATERIAL_LIST   {

   *MATERIAL_COUNT   6

   *MATERIAL   0   {

      *MATERIAL_NAME   "textures/common/caulk"

      *MATERIAL_CLASS   "Standard"

      *MATERIAL_DIFFUSE   1.000000   1.000000   1.000000

      *MATERIAL_SHADING Phong

      *MAP_DIFFUSE   {

         *MAP_NAME   "textures/common/caulk"

         *MAP_CLASS   "Bitmap"

         *MAP_SUBNO   1

         *MAP_AMOUNT   1.0

         *MAP_TYPE   Screen

         *BITMAP   "..\textures\common\caulk.tga"

         *BITMAP_FILTER   Pyramidal

      }

   }


The line that say

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      *MATERIAL_NAME   "textures/common/caulk"

is the one that matters. This would usually be what you named that material to in your modelig app. Change that to the name of the shader or path to texture and you should be all set. And no, the surface inspector cant help you. If you want the game so treat your model as solid you need to give it spawnflags 4. Note that that can be a bad idea on complex models, better clip those manually.