Destroyer

angelah said:

Hi Sean,
Here is a texture map from my Cardiff station....


I made 2 maps for this model, one as above and another for all the stonework on the building. Make each texture file first, I make them as jpeg, and then start a new File in the same window of your graphics package (mine is PSP) to the power of 2, that is 2, 4, 8, 16 and so on. One that will hold a lot of textures like the one above is best made big. The texture files you are going to add can be any size but best to be small or as small as you can get away with without losing detail. Add each and then save the big new file out as a TARGA and your main texture map, in this case they were named CS_Main_Texture_Map1 and CS_Main_Texture_Map2. You can call them whatever you like as long as you know which is which for each asset you make, that is why I put the prefix letters in.

When you come to texture the model select whichever map is needed for the part in question and then UVWmap and after that UVWunwrap (the textures). It is a fiddle picking each part out of the map with the corner handles but you can put a wire frame round two, say 2 vertical ones, and move them both at the same time, it makes life a little easier.
I know many people say just use the UVWunwrap and that is all that's needed but whenever I have done that CM kicks up about it saying the model or a texture is not mapped. Mapping only tells what the object is, a Box, Cylinder or whatever, UVWunwrap actually unwraps that part of the texture map to each part of your model from the one part of the texture map.

Does this help?

Angela

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angelah said:

Hi all,
Thanks for all your comments and info on your other interests. I firmly believe it is important to have other things to do so I do my best. Sometimes it is hard though if my spine is going through a bad patch or other joints are playing up badly so then it has to be a sitting down hobby of some sort, usually shooting at this time of year.
The accordion arrived today and I am trying (not very well...) to re-familiarise myself with sheet music. Hell, has it been THAT long since I last used it. Now I am almost starting from scratch again. And with a new instrument that makes it harder because at distance I can't read very well without cloe-to glasses, not what you want on when playing! But I am starting to chord and getting the hang of the 72 buttons I cannot see with my left hand, not bad in a couple of hours I suppose. But each learning session needs to be fairly short even sitting, so it may take a while.

Interesting that you, Sean, can play several instruments as well. Now your education has ended for now perhaps you will get time for both Trainz and some music?

And Dave, I am hardly a 'rocker', a maverick waltser maybe... My Farfisa was a lovely 'studio' organ, 2 levels of full keys and a whole raft of switches that did all sorts of things. The spearker rotated to give a 'vigrating' sounds to the notes and was very pleasant to the ear. Sadly all the reeds needed replacing which would have cost a bomb and at that time I was halfway through a divorce, so it went to that great organ place in the sky.... I miss it.
The accordion is quite different to play and needs the right hand curved onto the keyboard which of course is vertical, so that needs a bit of getting used to.

Sawyer811, make sure the crew of the Hood keeps a weather eye on that big beast of a ship, the Tirpitz. But I am sure the standing patrol would warn her if the enemy started to creep inshore. Good luck with that route and scenario.

Angela

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