Question about adding textures

Samio · Post by **Samio** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:05 pm

When i add a texture to something in 3ds max by using the material editor I drag and drop the texture onto the object i want to apply the texture too but the object just turns gray, i don't know if this is supposed to happen but i wanted someone to imform me if its not.

Samio · Post by **Samio** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:18 pm

for some reason i always see questions getting answered in posts but no one seems to want to answer any of my questions

I'm new to maping and modeling so i wouldnt mind a bit of tips and answers to my n00bish questions

inkjet · Post by **inkjet** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:41 pm

sorry you haven't gotten an answer already. what you ahve to do is go right under the modifiers tab and click the button that says (if you hang over it) show finished product or something like that. then your bitmap should appear on it. thats so you can model and still see the texture. but if you don't want to see it when you're modelling then go in the modifiers tab and click on uvw map. then it should show. hope that helped. i do have to admit that these forums here have gone to hell full of flamers and total jerks. we are all noobs in the beginning so don't take any shame in it.

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:31 am

Click the checkerbox icon in material editor for it to show up in perspective.

Samio · Post by **Samio** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:36 am

Thanks so much guys, i got it now this really helped. and i had another problem too, after i convert an object into an editable mesh i don't know how to change the paramaters and make it smaller or larger. It get pretty annoying looking for almost an hour trying to find out just how to change the size

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:17 am

Samio wrote:Thanks so much guys, i got it now this really helped. and i had another problem too, after i convert an object into an editable mesh i don't know how to change the paramaters and make it smaller or larger. It get pretty annoying looking for almost an hour trying to find out just how to change the size

idk if u can manually in editable mesh....just use the scale tool