Well, I discovered a new issue with this model, nothing that could not be fixed. When I attempted to give the door depth, I just extruded the polies. Well that left an open face which did not show up until the texture was applied. All I had to do was to duplicate the original polies and extrude one ...

Hirazi, thank you for explaing this for me. I was lost for a while. Ok, cool, now I can see the texture being applied. Who would have thunk, so what it the diff between Textured & Texture Decal? So now I can see the vision I had. I wander if this will cause othe issues when I export to my XNA pr...

dwigfor wrote:I think the Noesis training videos would help you, especially with your texturing problems - take a look at the dynamite prop videos - http://www.moddb.com/groups/noesis-inte ... /downloads

I did download these, they appear to be finish project. No clue how they got there.

I think I distilled this into a process. Middle click the model null Render > Texture > Image --- find image pin down window with the keyhole icon on top. Render > Porperty > Texture Projection > Create new Texture Projection press OK Press Edit > Freeze on the right panel try the animation. a5' no...

And this shows the texture I want to apply. If you apply the triangles above over the texture you show see what I am talking about.

to get there ^ as I said before, go to RENDER > TEXTURE > IMAGE a5 Yes, that is what I have been doing. I can get the texture into the material manager and render tree. But every time I try to drag and drop the Scene Material onto my model it does nothing. The two sceen shots I have included shows ...

Thank you all for the suggestions on books, articles and tuts. I have been scouring around looking and reading everything I can. I truly did not like that this was going to be this difficult. I believe I have the basic knowledge of modeling down. I may not know the correct lingo, however I am learni...

So, I played with this software (SoftImage Mod Tool Pro) all weekend. I managed at on point to texture my model, but when i went back and try to reproduce what I did, I can not. I have gone through adding materials, textures, try mapping by drag and drop, follow tutorials, write ups. How do you guys...

Well, it this were an easy task, then it would have ben finish a long time ago. like I said, I could do this all in code, but was not sure if that is how it should be done. I was under the imperssion that these modeling tools helps simplify this stuff. I can even get a simple texture on a model in o...

so what you are saying is that this will apply a texture to the model(s) plates/layers, and when the plates move they each will keep their respctive part of the texture while they move. I am fimilure with raw triangle face object and how to apply a UV texture to it in XNA C# coding. but not sure how...

Not sure how complex you want to make it but a start would be:: RENDER> TEXTURE > Image:: click new and navigate to an image. is that what you want? a5- also not sure if this is the same in the mod tool.. I am still working on getting the piece textured. This graphical stuff is a bit more than I ba...

The "EXP" scene files used by the Mod Tool CANNOT be opened by the regular commercial version of Softimage, which uses "SCN" scene files. This is one of the limitations of the Mod Tool. ;) so I take it, there is no need to upload my scene files, in hope someone can point out my ...

Not sure how complex you want to make it but a start would be:: RENDER> TEXTURE > Image:: click new and navigate to an image. is that what you want? a5 also not sure if this is the same in the mod tool.. Honestly, I have no clue what I am doing with the "Mod Tool Pro" application. I am a ...

OK, can't open this scene in 2011.... but, do you want the triangles to "slide" on one another or is it ok if they cross one another? The above expression by Janosch seems to do what you want unless you want them to 'slide' on one another. I am pretty ignorant when it comes to expressions...

Could you please explain what's wrong with the solution Janosch posted? I was able to open the scene but there was no animation, secondly the plates are to slide on the others sides so that there is no over-lap. I could not figure how to use expressions either. I was able to get the effect I desire...

Ok, I think I have managed to get the effect I was going after. I do not know if this is the correct way to do it, but it appears to function. Check it out and let me know what else is needed or to be cleaned up. Now the next step is to be able to add a texture to it. This may be a challenge or a bi...