Mapping Car Decals using UnwrapUVW in 3DS MAX

[Woody79]

ok, no probs. I will start a new thread and do some screenies. and un unplaod file!

[canmark]

I used this technique to check out the paint and graphics to be applied to my friend's Cascar racer before comitting it to the actual car. He went with the flames

[borisss]

hi im new to texturing and i need some help. the texture/sign wont show up in my renders. it can be seen in the viewport though (when i load in the UVWs under the Parameters dialog). im using brazil.

check out the picture for better understanding.

[BlackSlimeMan.2049]

Why did you take a screenshot of the application?

There is an easier way.

Press 0 on the keyboard and bring up the "Bake To Texture Function".

It will give you exact placement of everything.

And to get just wireframes, apply a wireframe material to the mesh.

But make sure you bring the "Self-Illumination" all the way up, or else "Bake To Texture" will include shadows cast by the default or scene lights.

And make sure you select a place to save it to, as if you were rendering an animation. There is a button to save it as a still image file.

I do it all the time, and it is more precise.

-Payton.

[borisss]

i took a screenshot so u can see how the texture can be seen in the viewport and in the material (editor), but it wont render out.

sorry i dont see how your way of doing it is easier, plus i cant render it (do this) with brazil.

[BlackSlimeMan.2049]

Bake to texture creates an exact bitmap of the box you just put the wire in.

I will get an example.

-Payton

This is just a bunch of images. I will put these together later and explain everything. And it is not that hard, and is much easier, especially when you have an object arbitrarily placed some space away from the edges of the map.

I have to be somewhere right now though. I will explain all later.

Bah .ZIP is too big. I will fix it later.

It easier and yields more accurate maps.

[popoff]

great tut for sure
but when i import meshes from Rhino i got problems with STLcheck and i cannot unwrap the surfaces ...

[3n1g]

Very good Tutorial. I learned something new today. Thank You!! Now i can Custom paint my Hot Rod

[noomski]

First of all, I just wanted to say hello - First post in this forum. Secondly, awesome tutorial TTL3D. However I am having a few probs:

I'm in the process of modeling a wheel from my car and I want to add the 'Concept Five' logo.


I started by slecting the spokes from the wheel


Then added the turbosmooth but the 'UnwrapUVW' rollout would not appear until after I added a second turbosmooth. So I thought, ok well lets see how it goes....


I selected face, then hit Planar etc, and got this:



I realise I've gone badly wrong somewhere, I'm guessing I need to adapt what TTL3D has done to what I'm working on as they are not viewed from the same angle etc. I still don't understand why the uvw unwrap rollout only appears after 2 turbosmooth's. I'm just not quite sure where I'm going wrong.

Id really like to hear from anyone who might be able to tell me where I'm failing here.

[darkstryder360]

What I am interested to know is... Why Multi Sub Object is necessary? And no mention on the Blend, had to look at the screenshots.

Worked though! Albeit needs a lot of tinkering.

[beacon1]

Some images are missing, hope someone updates this.