Whaat's UV Tools and Twilight

[Gaieus]

It's not crashing SU or Twilight so I decided to keep Chris' topic clean but has anyone tried to use Whaat's UV Tools together with Twilight? To me it scrambles all the texture maps (both spherical and cylindrical).

[Ecuadorian]

Yes, I used it to apply spherical maps in a test scene:

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[Gaieus]

I get this with this model in the WH:

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and this with this model.

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[Frederik]

You'll need to triangulate the mesh, Csaba...

Have you seen the explanation I've made available in the Earth & Moon thread...??

[Gaieus]

Thanks, Kim, I1ll try that. I must have seen it but it may have slipped my memory (and at least the Earth model is older than Twilight)


BTW it was made with circles of 96 segments. I can imagine triangulating that mesh!

[Gaieus]

And YESSS!

It now works without triangulating!

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Simply applied Porcellain template and rendered with 07 High + (no environment an such - this is just an UV mapping test)

Model in the Warehouse (an old one I posted once for a Help Forum discussion - if only the texture image were a bit higher resolution)

[remon_v]

btw if you don't have the subdivide and smooth ruby... could you also just export the model as 3ds and check "triangulate" faces?
I could have a try though.

oke edit: I exported to collada. Collada didn't triangulate... so I exported again as OBJ (check "triangulate faces") and import again and it worked

[Ecuadorian]

The idea is that now, you don't need to triangulate your model for it to render correctly. It will just render fine, without any modifications.

[remon_v]

that's what Frederik says in this post

edit: you're right! ecuadorian

[Gaieus]

Collada export does triangulate. However when importing, make sure to uncheck "Merge coplanar faces" in the import options dialog if you want a triangulated mesh.

For this particular job there's fortunately no need to do this any more - thanks agin to development.