[bonjavi]

Hi!

Its not possible to project textures trough maya plugin? all I get is a black image on the render when I try to use any kind of projection.

If it cant be done, how could I easily texture nurbs surfaces; until now, on polys I could use camera to set UVs, which got me the same result as projecting the textures; but now I'm trying to do the same on nurbs and I dont really find an easy way to do it. All I found is to paint some paint effects and save that as a texture, then scale the texture I've done trough snapshot or render of the object to the one I got from the painteffects way, and then I get my texture to fit into the object, but it would be a lot more easy if I could just project it.

Is there any way to do it? or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks,

Javier Navarro

[Jorge Alix]

Hola Javi!
Have you tried to make solid textures?

[KRZ]

maybe i sound stupid...but why not tesselate the nurbs and unwrapp your polys. in the end you have to tesselate your modell anyway for maxwell or?

[bonjavi]

Hola!

Sorry for taking so much time to reply, thanks for your answers, but:

- Whats "solid textures". Only way I've found for texture nurbs is painting it with paintfx and the use that texture as a base for my texture. Is there any other way?

- I can unwrapp polys but not nurbs, right? I dont get what you mean, I can change tesselation but that doesnt make that nurbs polygons or make unwrapeable that nurbs, as long as I know nurbs textures are just a square that then strech to fit the nurbs surface. If you mean why dont I convert my nurbs to polys, I'm trying to use nurbs cause I'm doing a scene that have a lot of plain surfaces, but with a lot of curves, you know the usual autocad draw that you have to use to make a lot of planars of it. If I just use polygons, I have to use a lot of detail on them so those curves on the surface doesnt look, well, low polygon; in the end with just the surfaces I cannot handle the scene. Thats why I was trying to use nurbs, I just do the plannars and activate advanced tesselation and adjust it to have a smooth surface.


Well thank you very much,

Javi

[Jorge Alix]

Sorry, is no solid textures is convert to file texture, you can convert a proyected texture in a NURB with tis tool, look at this

[bonjavi]

Whoa! I didnt know that, its very cool! I'm gonna try it thank you very much!!!!

Javi