GameDevKicks.com - Stories tagged with Texturing

Unwanted/Missing/Rogue Materials in 3DS Max Scenes

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:51:31 GMT

A simple work flow to finding a removing unwanted maps or materials that may still be linked in a 3DS Max Scene and exporting through the Torque DTS Exporter. Excerpt, 'During your work flow of creating a DTS you may apply a dummy texture or create more than one Material. Now something to be keep in mind is that Max has an interesting way of handling textures/materials and even if you simply delete the maps, links or material on a material ball it does not necessarily mean its been deleted from your scene.'

"Revolutions" in texture mapping

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:02 GMT

The process of texturing/shading a 3D model always begins with UV mapping and for the past 20 years the 3D industry has used traditional UV mapping techniques which relies on cutting up a 3D model and laying the pieces of it onto a 2D grid (the texture).

blueshogun's foliage textures created with GIMP

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:49:45 GMT

blueshogun has posted a zip containing some of the foliage textures he created with GIMP lately.

UVW Mapping Video Tutorial

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:43:12 GMT

Skizot has made a video that demonstrates how to apply UVW mapping to a 3D model.

InteliShade Beta 1.2

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:50:23 GMT

HLSL Syntax Highlighting and Intelisense (Ctrl-Space) add-in for Visual Studio 2005 Standard (and above) has been released. New features include better support for syntax highlighting as well as auto-completion and faster operation.