Image Mapping

[lowglow]

Does anyone here know how to map a texture onto a model?

[ggunners]

You'll find links to tutorials for Metasequoia LE in the models section of the FMS Forum.

-- ggunners

[lowglow]

Yep Thanks for that ggunners, I have read them all and many more I have also come across a bunch of people on the net making charactors for Tomb Raider and a paper car forum that are using meta aswell read them all.
But I am still having some problems but its strange, I have built a model of an Avro 539 Falcon, and have spent the last two days tareing my hair out trying to get the Texture to map, in the end I gave up.
Now today I thought I will just give it another go and now it works fine, I am not doing anything different, it seems to happen a bit, some days it will map fine and other days it just won't.
I also have a problem with Meta shutting down when you try to insert an object and also when you use save as if you don't click quick it just shuts down!!!!!!!!!!!
I have built the following models since I sent you the Greatplanes Dazzler to look at, I am very pleased with them all.
Sopwith Pup on floats
Hanger9 Alpha 40 trainer on floats
Seamaster
AT40 Trainer.
The only think I seem to have troble with is the texture mapping some days???????????

[TreeHugger]

Hi lowglow,

if you'd like to have some advice, you need to give a description of the problem you have. "Texture mapping problems" is too vague, because they are manifold - What did you want to acchieve, What did you do, what went wrong, etc.

Kind regards,
Frank

[lowglow]

[lowglow]

[TreeHugger]

Hi lowglow,

in a nutshell: don't push the UV button, because it resets your mapping to default values. The UV button is meant to initialize rather than finish the texture coordinates. When you have finished scaling and positioning the texture, simply unselect the faces you were working on and you're done.

Sadly, the texture mapping tool of metasequoia have degraded from version 2.1 on. Since the newly introduced modelling tools in 2.3 are mostly useless for technical modeling, it's best to stick with meta 2.1 . The UV button is not present in the 2.1 interface, and it would be useless, because whenever you hit the "map"-button, UV-coordinates will be created.

Everything else in your workflow should be working fine.

Kind regards,
Frank

[lowglow]

So how come in all of the tutorials I have read it says to finish by selecting the UV button before you unselect the part you have mapped the texture to and on every mqo file that I have looked at in the Material Property box the Projection method is set to UV not Flat?

[Kevinator_9]

That's help me. I will change to 2.1

[lowglow]

Read Here
And this
Before Closing the mapping dialog( by selecting another command like select)
you should click the UV icon to change the mapping to UV coordinates. There is a good reason for this. If you leave the mapping in Plane mode (or any mode other than UV), when you move, rotate or scale the mapped surface, the face will move leaving the texture behind. Try it.

Of course if you was in a hurry and forgot to set the mapping to UV, don't panic. You can always go into the materials property dialouge and set the projection method from flat to UV.

UV mode allows you to move, rotate and scale the selection without losing the position the texture was in.
Although if you move a vertex in the plane, you will squash the texture.

Was taken from here

[TreeHugger]

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