Which 3d modeller to use for texture?

[Guest]

hi,

I'm new and I tried anim8or. But afaik I can not use the textures of the models for irrlicht or I dont know how.

Which 3d modelling programm do you use and how do you create textures with it and how do you use these textures in irrlicht?

In the tutorial #1 it says

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node->setMaterialTexture( 0, driver->getTexture("media/sydney.bmp") );

But how do I create such a texture for a given model?


Yes, Im a total beginner to 3d programming or 3d modelling but I finished the tutorials.


thanx,

Usul

[puh]

By hands, my friend, this all have been done by hands. Any paint-like app - mspaint, photoshop, paintshoppro, corelphotopaint etc. see http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/2D_Editors
Or you can try to use 3d texture editor: http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/3D_Texture_Editors

[Guest]

I understand that I have to paint textures by hand (how else?).

My question is how do I create a texture (lets say "mytext.bmp") for a model (lets say "mymodell.obj") in a way that everything is at the right position? The things that are in the front should be in the front, etc. How do I know WHERE to draw? How are textures mapped to the modell?

[latentdisposition]

http://users.skynet.be/fa201614/irrlicht/index.htm

Download Lithunwrap from there and then have a look at this tutorial.

http://www.psionic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... /zuvm.html

[Guest]

THANX latentdisposition! UV mapping was the key I was looking for!

And thanx especially for really taking my question seriously.

I use UVMapper now which seems to work fine. But I still had to google for hours in order to find out that I have to save the object along with the texture.

I didnt know that the information on how the texture is applied to the model is stored in the *.obj file. I always thought there would be one standard way this is done. There are no good tutorials out there which explain stuff like that for noobs like me.

But now i figured it out. A whole day wasted just because of a problem like this.

So thank you VERY VERY MUCH for the final uv mapping hint !