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UW mapping issue [solved]
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:54 pm
by messire
I'm getting a weird issue with UW mapping ( from Sketchup export)
basically its arroway textures am using, creating the mxm is not a problem, ditto with the Sketchup counterpart, but when i render it says:
ERROR: - UVW channels ( 1 ) on object "Obj_stone 40" not enough for material "stone 40"
Since the textures comes from arroway ( huge sizes) i'm wondering what i can do to solve it... any hint?
thnx
Nils
Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:10 pm
by KurtS
try to switch to channel 0 (in the materials editor) - I remember this used to fix the problem when I had that error message.
Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:36 am
by messire
thnx unfortunately this is already in channel O
Its really a strange bug, never happened before with any textures / mxm at all.
Any hint? Someone from NL? Mihai?
N.
Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:29 am
by KurtS
messire wrote:thnx unfortunately this is already in channel O
In that case you should also use channel 0 for the objects that is using this material. Edit object parameter UV channel to "0"
Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:44 pm
by messire
Kurt,
Thnx for your help!
Where the hell can i set this ( am using Sketchup with auto mxm export).. i have no way to modify UW setting directly in Sketchup, all i can modify is the way the texture is defined, positioned, tiled etc but no numerical setting is available..
N
Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:00 pm
by KurtS
I guess you should have posted this in the sketchup section, but here is a workaround:
open the mxs-file that SU creates in maxwell studio. In studio you can edit the setting in the object parameter tab.
Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:44 pm
by messire
Gosh i think i've found the bug: a student was doing the new textures...and in a reflectance map hit channel 7 in one of the bdsf layers of the mxm...then duplicated the mxm to create the new one etc> making the whole library unable to open...had to reassign the whole mxm's channels on every faulty bdsf...
I'm not sure i understand what the channels are used for thu but hey now it is solved ( and has nothing to do with SU)
cheers
[case solved]
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Re: UW mapping issue
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:41 am
by Richard
messire wrote:Gosh i think i've found the bug: a student was doing the new textures...and in a reflectance map hit channel 7 in one of the bdsf layers of the mxm...then duplicated the mxm to create the new one etc> making the whole library unable to open...had to reassign the whole mxm's channels on every faulty bdsf...
I'm not sure i understand what the channels are used for thu but hey now it is solved ( and has nothing to do with SU)
cheers
[case solved]
N
I've also wondered too what channels are used for?