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Old 5th September 2008, 08:54 PM   #1
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Not quite a tutorial per se, but here's some uneditted video of me doing a quick-and-dirty texture job on a car. It might be helpful for some of you looking for hints on how to use the TCE.

Each video is about 1 to 3 minutes long.

Step 1
Parcel up the car into sections by assigning a material to each "region" that I want to texture. This makes it quicker to recall selections later with "select surfaces with this material".

Step 2
Commit subdivisions. Then open the TCE and apply a projection to each of the regions I created in step 1. In this case, the car is pretty flat and I'm not doing anything complicated, so a simple planar projection will do the trick.

Step 3
Make sure all of the surfaces are mapped the right direction by applying a utility texture and making sure none of the text on the texture is backwards. Flip or rotate any surfaces that are going the wrong way.

Step 4
Apply a checkerboard utility texture and make sure each section of the texture map is scaled appropriately. In this case, I want everything scaled to be about the same size.

Step 5
Play tetris with the pieces of the map until they all fit neatly into the square and use as much of the map as possible. Finish up by copying the uv map to the clipboard so I can paste it into Corel for painting.
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Old 6th September 2008, 01:16 PM   #2
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Thank you so much Lisa! This is soo helpful. Great video. I had always wondered how exactly to do that.
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Old 7th September 2008, 06:05 PM   #3
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Another thanks - well done video. One suggestion, could you "hang" for a second or two longer on the menu selections? My old eyes are a gettin slower. Or even better, some audio would be fantastic.

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Old 8th September 2008, 07:03 PM   #4
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You're welcome!

Yeah, I keep meaning to do some audio, but I have to find some better video editing software first. For some reason, every time I edit the video, the re-compressed version comes out totally impossible to read. I've tried with both Premier and MovieMaker, and get the same result even with minimum compression settings. Truthfully, even the unedited capture isn't all that great, as I have big problems with the color palette going crazy, too. All I can figure is I'm using a bogus codec, but I'm not sure what to change it to to fix it, blech.
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Old 28th October 2009, 05:32 PM   #5
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Excellent video's but I am still lost. I am so bad at the TCE thing.

So I did everything you showed to do in the video's. All except the real time sizing of the textures.

I coppied the UV map to my clipboard and pasted into my photo program. Just for an experiment, I loaded a different picture to each part. Then I saved it and loaded it into my model as a texture. I used the UV mapper to get the right look and when I rendered, everything was screwed up.

Please help me


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Old 29th October 2009, 06:56 PM   #6
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Hmm. Is your model subdivided? If so, make sure you click "refresh subdivisions" from the menu in the TCE to make sure the texture coordinates are updated from the base model to the subdivided mesh.

Also, what renderer are you using?
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Old 29th October 2009, 07:36 PM   #7
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I will try that a bit later, I am working on a new project now

I didnt render it in any program, just the 3D window in ACD3 so far
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Old 8th June 2010, 02:41 PM   #8
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OK, Ive learned a bit more since I posted here.
I am going to give it another try today. Just one question though. How do you mean painting it in Corel (or Photoshop in my case) ?

Once you have it all sized up, cant you just load another texture on top of it?
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Old 8th June 2010, 06:16 PM   #9
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nope, once again an epic failure. Though I did understand the tut better this time.
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You're welcome!

Yeah, I keep meaning to do some audio, but I have to find some better video editing software first.
You might try FRAPS. It's a software optimized to work with games (capturing in-game video) so it does pretty well with simultaneous voice capture.

Getting the sound to capture can at times be tricky.... but it should do the job for ya.

The other way of doing it is to get a (@$20) pocket voice recorder and do a running commentary at the same time you capture the screen moves. This should sync up pretty easily when you go to edit it in MovieMaker.
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