[deesee]

Hey guys,

I'm really at my wits end here. I have an old project that I did in school and recently modeled in SU. My model has numerous groups and only a few materials at this point.

I tried using the plugin, but that's too slow right now. Therefore, I'm trying to go the 3ds route.

The problem is when I do that, texturing becomes very complicated. Depending on wether or not I export "objects by geometry" or "objects by hierarchy" or even "single object," I don't have the ability to pick one face and apply UVW maps in Max. Its doable, but a real pain in the ass.

My point is what do you guys do? How do you go about marrying SU and Maxwell? Do you use 3ds2mxs? In other words, what is your workflow strategy?

Any tips or advice would be sincerely appreciated!

This is what I'm working on:



Sorry, its a bit large.

[RedRaven]

try using the obj2mxs instead of the 3ds - i think its posted somewhere on here or at the su site

[bakbek]

I Would try Matadorlight... for the most part it does the work. you can import your 3DS model into matador and set the layers to ba like Layer for material, or Layer for groups, or a Combo of both.

Give it a go, i use it and like it.

[deesee]

This WIP is with the 3ds technique. C&C welcomed. I'll give the other methods a try.

Thanks!

8 hrs:

[frankmeyers]

Matadorlight is the only right way up to now. The sketchup plugin doesn't really work.
Export you model as an obj-file and then handle everything in matadorlight.