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SignGuy169 · 29th October 2009, 12:29 AM

Lisa;

Many thanks for your kind reply, and information; people like you helping others truly make or break a forum. "Ya' done good," Kiddo. ;-) As you stated, when I moved all files to the same DIR, AC3D of course opened the model w/textures showing. All's well now.

Let me ask this, if I may: as mentioned in my last post I made part of a model - 6 timbers, 4 walls, and 2 floors. (If AC3D in next ver. addresses things so one can adjust ambient
setting of texture, that I must have for an Ogre mesh, I could do all of what I need in one app which would be great; did try to just edit ambient setting in .mtl file of Ogre mesh, which may or may not work). But, thought I'd export objects I made to another app to adjust texture's ambient setting to see how that went. In this case as I exported each item in turn I later found that each .mtl file as exported from AC3D for an object described all textures in my mini-model; odd, as I had never seen that before in other apps.

Stranger still, when I started to import the 1st AC3D object (into Silo), I got the whole model; no matter what I opened - a timber, or wall, etc., - still got the whole model. Have never seen that happen before - dunno' if this is AC3D, or Silo, that causes this.

Finally... if I won't try your patience: fun part of new apps is "dorking around" to get a sense of things, imo. And with first attempts at subtraction, I end up with an object that has some
blank default color on some faces, not the texture in those few areas; even tried adding texture after subtraction process, and still got the same look. I did something wrong, I assume?

What is "a sense of" scale in AC3D? Some things seem small, brought into AC3D, but may seem real-sized, in other apps. Did see nos. in upper right, showing dimensions of wall, floor, etc. within AC3D which of course helps.

Some ideas on the above, Lisa, where I perhaps messed things up?

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* Had posted earlier note here on AC3D/Ogre mesh exporter, and a long note "Models - collapsing?" on this at Ogre forum; I wonder if AC3D or another app that anyone is aware of may tell me about what went wrong with things lately when I ran into a mess/mesh... wherein (mostly) furniture items in a model went bad, were flattened and stretched like rubber bands or salt-water taffy. Oddly, had used some of those items before, and things worked fine. In one case, put in 1 chair and Ogre
mesh was fine, but when copying chair to other positions around a table, the other chairs would collapse or possibly cause other things to cave in... that had been fine when last seen as an Ogre
mesh. I would dearly love to feed my brain, with an answer, to that question if any pros here have thoughts on that.

Many thanks to you, again.
Best,(SignGuy169) Pat

29th October 2009, 12:29 AM	#3
SignGuy169 Junior Member Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 14	Re: "New kid, in town..." at the AC3D ranch Lisa; Many thanks for your kind reply, and information; people like you helping others truly make or break a forum. "Ya' done good," Kiddo. ;-) As you stated, when I moved all files to the same DIR, AC3D of course opened the model w/textures showing. All's well now. Let me ask this, if I may: as mentioned in my last post I made part of a model - 6 timbers, 4 walls, and 2 floors. (If AC3D in next ver. addresses things so one can adjust ambient setting of texture, that I must have for an Ogre mesh, I could do all of what I need in one app which would be great; did try to just edit ambient setting in .mtl file of Ogre mesh, which may or may not work). But, thought I'd export objects I made to another app to adjust texture's ambient setting to see how that went. In this case as I exported each item in turn I later found that each .mtl file as exported from AC3D for an object described all textures in my mini-model; odd, as I had never seen that before in other apps. Stranger still, when I started to import the 1st AC3D object (into Silo), I got the whole model; no matter what I opened - a timber, or wall, etc., - still got the whole model. Have never seen that happen before - dunno' if this is AC3D, or Silo, that causes this. Finally... if I won't try your patience: fun part of new apps is "dorking around" to get a sense of things, imo. And with first attempts at subtraction, I end up with an object that has some blank default color on some faces, not the texture in those few areas; even tried adding texture after subtraction process, and still got the same look. I did something wrong, I assume? What is "a sense of" scale in AC3D? Some things seem small, brought into AC3D, but may seem real-sized, in other apps. Did see nos. in upper right, showing dimensions of wall, floor, etc. within AC3D which of course helps. Some ideas on the above, Lisa, where I perhaps messed things up? ==== * Had posted earlier note here on AC3D/Ogre mesh exporter, and a long note "Models - collapsing?" on this at Ogre forum; I wonder if AC3D or another app that anyone is aware of may tell me about what went wrong with things lately when I ran into a mess/mesh... wherein (mostly) furniture items in a model went bad, were flattened and stretched like rubber bands or salt-water taffy. Oddly, had used some of those items before, and things worked fine. In one case, put in 1 chair and Ogre mesh was fine, but when copying chair to other positions around a table, the other chairs would collapse or possibly cause other things to cave in... that had been fine when last seen as an Ogre mesh. I would dearly love to feed my brain, with an answer, to that question if any pros here have thoughts on that. Many thanks to you, again. Best,(SignGuy169) Pat