texturing this?

[Alchemist]

what would be the most efficient way of texturing something like this?

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*smoth, please don't tell me this is a waste of polys*

[Peet]

It's a waste of polys.

That said, that could be simply planar mapped from above.

[rattle]

Blatant waste of polies!

[lurker]

Is that 16 seperate quads used to make a circle?

[SpikedHelmet]

No, hell's just frozen over.

[TabloMaxos]

Planar mapping from above, as Peet sugguested.

Or you can have mine (I made it for you) already uv-mapped ready for texturing.

[Alchemist]

Thanks a lot Tablo but it's not quite a repair pad (the "waste of polys" is essential in this model). I'll break it down:

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What can I do so the UV doesn't scatter all over the place and stays in the ring formation?

[Felix the Cat]

Manually move the pieces around, probably... AFAIK Wings doesn't like ring-shapes like that, but someone with more experience UV mapping in Wings might be able to tell you a better way of doing it.

[TabloMaxos]

Try this. Same UV as before.

[Argh]

Map planar- i.e., select the ring area's facets, then "Remap UV-->Project Normal".

[Alchemist]

remapping UV isn't working. Perhaps because they are all separate objects...

[Argh]

If they're all seperate objects... meh, that sounds like a job for UVMapper Classic, or another uvmapper program, to me, but maybe Rattle, etc., know of a way to do that in Wings.

[Alchemist]

Mm well i did it all manually and I've finally finished the editing of the texture but when I hit refresh on the outliner or make internal nothing happens... any ideas?

[SwiftSpear]

Is that 16 seperate quads used to make a circle?

No, it's 32 separate quads used to make a square.

[Argh]

I just looked at the model... um... it's all one thing... and you can make the entire middle area into a quad.

Seriously, don't hesitate to use Dissolve to get rid of extra polygons... if you want a circle on the texture, use the skin, not the geometry.

[Alchemist]

No no, this is the model I'm using. It's UV mapped and all, just any texture I use fails to apply into the material for some reason.

[rattle]

Is the pad seperate or is it supposed animate? I suggest mentioning details like this for less flames in the future.

[Alchemist]

It's all supposed to animate, so those separate objects are necessary. Anyways Now I'm having this problem. I've had it all textured and I'm trying to upload into upspring but the textures mess up on the way.

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[SwiftSpear]

It's all supposed to animate, so those separate objects are necessary.

Still. With S3O you can use tri's and you'd only need like 20 triangles to do that, if not less, as opposed to the 32 quads, each of which is composed of 2 triangles already.

[SwiftSpear]

It's all supposed to animate, so those separate objects are necessary.

Still. With S3O you can use tri's and you'd only need like 20 triangles to do that, if not less, as opposed to the 32 quads, each of which is composed of 2 triangles already.

[edit]Make the bottom plane a single quad, and make the top plane a second object that's an 10 sided circle. You'd only be using 12 tri's and the animation would still work just as well. Right now, you're going to have tears when you animate the center circle since it's a cookie cutter from the center piece.

If you want geometry under the pad... you don't currently have it, and I recommend just texturing that part in. With transparency you can easily apply the same effect you will get right now. Without it, you can still texture in pretty much any effect you want under the pad.