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Material Export?

by Matt McCracken · in Artist Corner · 03/11/2006 (3:30 pm) · 4 replies

Hi guys, I'm trying to do something very simple. First off, I'm not an artist, I'm a coder, so I admit my noobosity when it comes to 3d tools and stuff, but what I'm trying to do should be quite easy.

I'm trying to model the letters of the alphabet. I use the text generation tool and create a letter, and then skin it with a gold color material. All is well.

I use the torque exporter, both the one that comes with it and the plus one, and the resulting DTS file shows up in my game, but the material isn't there. The letter is just white.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?
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Torque Owner Magnus Blikstad
#1
03/11/2006 (3:42 pm)
Torque doesn't support material colors, you need to actually create a texture with your gold color and apply that to your mesh.

Torque Owner Matt McCracken
#2
03/11/2006 (9:19 pm)
Thanks magnus. Now it at exports with a texture. I still don't understand how to make it a solid gold color, its kind of gold dots right now with a black background which i don't understand cause there's no black on my bmp. I just made a 256x256 bmp that is solid gold.

Torque Owner Magnus Blikstad
#3
03/12/2006 (12:03 am)
Can you post a screenshot somewhere?

Torque Owner Matt McCracken
#4
03/12/2006 (12:40 pm)
I had given up on it, but I went back to recreate the problem and take screenshots, and it seems to have worked this time around. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but it seems to be resolved.

Thanks for the help.