A closed surface can't be mapped ?

KleiZwei · Post by **KleiZwei** » Mon May 05, 2003 3:30 am

any ideas on what this error is and how i get around it?

Post by **hellcatv** » Mon May 05, 2003 3:51 am

a closed surface cannot be mapped? where is this error printed? what is it

or are you saying that you have a closed surface and wnat to texture map it

just make your texture wrappable

or you could make it go twice

go from texture coordinate 0 to texture coordinate 2 for instance

KleiZwei · Post by **KleiZwei** » Mon May 05, 2003 4:08 am

it's an error i keep recieving in wings3d while i'm trying to do a UV map...

Duality · Post by **Duality** » Mon May 05, 2003 6:42 am

Ok what you gotta do is when UV mapping, you gotta select the colors for the surface.

When you selected the faces, right click and select either AuvChart(1-9).

Marking edges for cut is good for splitting whole mapped surfaces(inorder to make a cube.

I forgot where the AUV tutorial was.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Mon May 05, 2003 5:55 pm

The Texturing-Howto is located here.

Especially the Tips on the bottom of the page are very helpful (i hope

)

Pontiac

KleiZwei · Post by **KleiZwei** » Mon May 05, 2003 6:03 pm

ok I've got passed that problem (arg that was annoying)
new problem and you're all going to laugh at me.... STOP LAUGHING AT ME!

the turrets on my ship are bigger then the ship itself and therefor in the game, all you can see are the turrets... How big should the ships be for everything to apear "right".

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Mon May 05, 2003 6:21 pm

I am sureley not laughing a you (made the same mistakes in the beginning)

When exporting the Ship select the grey square on the right side of "Vegastrike xmesh format" and enter an export scale between 5-15 (depends on your modell size in wings; if i remember correctly for a 8 unit long fighter a factor of 8-10 is a quite good value).

If you already exported the file just edit the beginning of the xunit file to look like this:

Code: Select all

<unit scale="10">

This is described more detailed in the Wings Howto and in the unit Howto.

KleiZwei · Post by **KleiZwei** » Mon May 05, 2003 11:58 pm

ok a few things,
1. I tried editing the unit scale, but this just caused the model to get bigger and all the turrets to be clumped together in one spot (there are 4 turrets)
2. I went back into wings3d and made the model larger (about 4 times larger) and repositioned the turrets, but now only one of the turrets apears.
3. How do I take screenshot in the game, i've tried PrtScn but that doesn't seem to do anything.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Tue May 06, 2003 12:12 am

to 1 and 2: i have no idea what's the reason for this
to 3:
In the FAQ:Q8 there are howto-make-screenshot descriptions for every operation system.

Pontiac