Gmax Tutorials

[hairyspin]

Mine looked like a road crash, Matt. I found a 26MB video tutorial at fsalpha.com which explained it, but in the interests of bandwidth, here's an explanatory pic.



I'm using the OpenGL driver on account of my old video card, but the principle is the same for DirectX drivers.

HTH

[Milton Shupe]

HTH has it right ... Match Bitmap as close as possible needs to be checked in his example. Thanks

[Firebar]

Hey! Thats worked a treat! Cheers.

Merry Christmas

[pilotwing]

Hello everybody,i started the map tutorials,but i have a problem,when creating the template a diferent messagebox appears,and my template is diferent,and how i apply the glass and blurred textures?

Thanks again

[Milton Shupe]

Pilotwing,

Your LithUnwrap template looks great.

You will want to save that at 2048 X 2048 to work on but FS9 will need it at 1024 X 1024.

I usually save a 1024 for the gmax UVW folder and convert it to jpg to save memory while modeling. (makes a big difference for me when things get busy)

The process flow goes like this:
1. Map parts and then export selected named to quake md3 folder
2. Open LithUnwrap, Open model, named exported parts from md3 folder
3. Now Save Bmp to your UVW folder. Change to jpg and reduce size if you wish)
4. Apply the new template to the selected gmax parts

Later, take your 2048 or 1024 bmp and change it to the proper format for FS texture folder.

Does this answer your question?

[pilotwing]

Thanks again,but why my template is not filled like yours,and how do you make the template looks like a real plane texture?

[MustangNightFighter]

Sorry if this is an obvious question, but how do I get stuff to show up in Gmax. Like I go to open the SDK stuff for CFS3 and it says its there, I can select it if I randomly click on the black screen, but that is all I can see, a black screen. Did I do something wrong here or do I need to go to a special view or something. Oh yeah, when I went to open Gmax the first time, there was some box that popped up asking about something like Heidi and Direct 3D. I chose like 3D or something. Does that have anything to do with it?

[Milton Shupe]

Try changing the driver to OpenGL ... see attached screenshot.

[MustangNightFighter]

Perfect, thanks...

[n4gix]

Thanks again,but why my template is not filled like yours,and how do you make the template looks like a real plane texture?

That is because you have the beta version of LithUnwrap 1.3.

I've updated the link referenced by Milton's tutorial to allow folks to get the "release version" of LithUnwrap 1.3...

[pilotwing]

So i check the tutorials again and download the lith unwrap of that link

Thanks

[Milton Shupe]

Thanks again,but why my template is not filled like yours...?

When you save the template from LithUnwrap, do you have this box checked?

[n4gix]

When you save the template from LithUnwrap, do you have this box checked?

The version that I had in that post at FFDS was to v1.3beta which does not have those options...

I still had the v1.3beta installed myself, and didn't even know there was a more recent, release version available...

...so I went a'googling for it.

I've updated the link to point to the release version of LithUnwrap. :gossip:

[Milton Shupe]

Thanks Bill; I appreciate that.

[pilotwing]

I downloaded the new version of lith unwrap,now i got all the options and a cool filled template.

Thanks to all of you