I'm still plodding along learning Wings3D in my spare time, but I have a couple of questions re. texturing.
Firstly, I've seen a couple of walkthroughs on websites where they show an object using multiple texture sheets instead of just one. Is this supported by Oolite?
Secondly, can anyone suggest any recommend texturing tutorials they have used - from building a ship through to final product?
Aside from space probes I've put together a few ships, one of which is shown below as a WIP, but the whole texturing process is confusing me a little.
Cheers!
Px4
The cockpit is facing to the lower left - the recessed portion:
Hi Phoenix4,
Very nice ship!
I don't know if you've had a look at my new Texture Tutorial but you might find it helpful.
Oolite can support more than one 'texture' for a ship, to be specific (for non-shader graphics) a diffuse_map (the ship's 'skin'), an illumination_map (for spotlighting etc) and an emission_map (for lights and 'glows'). However it is more efficient, and therefore recommended, to combine the illumination_map and emission_map into a combined emission_map.
My tutorial explains in detail how to do this.
I can't advise you on Shaders I'm afraid. You'll need someone like Griff for that.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Smivs.
Commander Smivs, the friendliest Gourd this side of Riedquat.
Hope that after reading that thread everything will make sense!
That link is from 2007. The current python script does support more than one texture, I used it often on multi texture ships. Only the converter dat->obj is old and only converts one texture. But when starting with wings you won't need conversion in that direction.
The most current converters are found here. The drop converters are mac only. The two you are interested in are the bottom two. Obj2DatTexNorm.py will only generate 1.74+ files, the Obj2DatTex.py will create dat foles usable for all oolite versions.
And Phoenix4, Oolite wants triangles. So before you start exporting you must divide all four-angles in triangles. Wings has a command to do that in one click.
Oolite wants triangles. So before you start exporting you must divide all four-angles in triangles. Wings has a command to do that in one click.
Thanks, I'll check that out.
One other thing re. textures. I've just tried the following in Wings but wonder if Oolite supports it - I took a cube and textured it then saved the file. Afterwards I opened a blank file and created a cylinder and textured that too (both in Photoshop). I then used the Merge command in Wings to bring them both together and then combined them as a single object.
Question is, will Oolite support a model created that way? It gives a lot more control over each piece of a model in my opinion, but is there a better way?
Yes it will, as in essence merging them will make them a single object. But if they have separate textures associated with them then the previously made comments about obj2dat applies.
