Request: unwraping an existing prop

ah ok, scrapped from to do list

I ended up in using 2008 instead of 8 version of 3dsmax, but even then it didnt want to render/export to psd.

Anyway this will make a huge file size, (15 images for just the screens 5 mb just for this model)

Try to place some of the screens on top of each other and place them all in a 1024*1024 file

EDIT (After dling):Try to unwrap the screen with a nice pelt unwraper, that makes skinning it a lot easier and you will get a better end result

Z33W13R said:

...this will make a huge file size, (15 images for just the screens 5 mb just for this model)

Try to place some of the screens on top of each other and place them all in a 1024*1024 file

EDIT (After dling):Try to unwrap the screen with a nice pelt unwraper, that makes skinning it a lot easier and you will get a better end result

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5mb? The small screens are 128x128, I think the biggest file size you can get per monitor is like... 86kb? And I am changing the base textures to DXT1 format, much smaller size. I think the total is still under 3mb, with the model files.

I thought 15 different images would be better for setting up skins. If I put the screens together, I was hoping to get a user submitted skin before I release a final version.

As for unwrapping... I don't know too much about good modeling, I've just done what works. I'm still looking for resources on unwrapping & rendering textures in XSI (after applying projections, how to render shadows, diffuse, etc). I'm stuck with XSI and internet tutorials for now, so learning is taking time.

Just to update this thread... (from reuploading, you already got it).

The screens were merged into one file. Screens file has alpha channel for selfillum (DXT5 compression; alpha, srgb flags checked). Base file has no alpha, uses BGR888 with srgb flag checked.

Youme said:

Its not compiled with ?? It dissapears when I use it as a prop_static

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I think I updated the model since you got it, just re-download and copy over the new models.