#UNWRAP 3D MESH INTO PNG HOW TO#
#UNWRAP 3D MESH INTO PNG WINDOWS#

Do a test render, and the model should now appear correctly with texture.ġ3. Now drag your imported texture to your Model's Map Channel 1. The map should comply to the baked texture.ġ2. You can make sure the map is correct by unwrapping the UVW Map with the Unwrap UVW Map modifier. There will be a new Modifier on your model. You should now see your baked texture on the material. Select 'Bitmap' and then find the baked texture. Select an empty material and click the gray button next to Diffuse. Now close the render to texture screen and open your Materials Window (M). If all went well, you should now see a flat texture of your model pop up on the screen.ġ0. Click the 'Render' button in the bottom left of the box. I leave that up to Unity since most of my 3D objects are not static, so I don't check those.ĩ. If you want Lighting or Shadows on your texture, check those off. For my run-of-the-mill objects I use 256x256 which is fine unless the player gets very close to the object.Ĩ. If you are creating an iPhone game, do not make a texture bigger than 1024x1024. Select Black for your Element Background, and pick a texture size that you think is high enough. Click on the '.' after 'File Name and Type' Use maximum quality PNG as your save format.ħ. This should add the map to the output list above.Ħ. If you know nothing about 3D like me, and just want flat colors, pick the 'Diffuse' option. If you know a lot about 3D, pick the texture type you want to create. Now scroll down to 'Output' You need to click the 'Add' button at the bottom of the list. Make sure 'Rendered Frame Window' is checked so you can see what your texture looks like when it is created.ĥ. Under 'Output' pick where you want to export your file. Make sure the item is selected in 3DS Max, it should appear under the 'Objects to Bake List.'Ĥ. Go to 'Rendering -> Render Texture' in 3DS Max (or hit 0.)ģ. If you want to bake in lighting, lit before you start the rest of these steps.Ģ. Create your model and texture it in 3D Studio. I'd rather not have to output a game where all objects have a single repeating texture layer.ġ.

If anyone could enlighten me on a possible solution I'd be very thankful as I'm very eager to resume work on my project which I've had much progress on so far.

#UNWRAP 3D MESH INTO PNG HOW TO#

Please excuse the amount of images, I just don't know how to explain it and I'm exhausted after 4 strenuous hours of failing to resolve this myself.

#UNWRAP 3D MESH INTO PNG WINDOWS#

I've also tried rendering it with the windows being a seperate mesh, part of the mesh and even without them but they don't seem to change the result.Īs you can see this is what the boat is meant to look like. I've tried setting up my own 'Unwrap UVW' modifier, channels 1, 2 and 3 (1 seems to be awfully low detail), using both existing and generated channels, texture sizes and so forth. It seems to have worked a few times in the past hundred attempts or so, but I've always experienced difficulty when I add the windows of the boat (my model). I've spend quite literally the last 4 hours trying to export a fairly simple model from Google SketchUp, then use 3DS Max to perform some magic UV Unwrapping so I can nicely get around 10 different materials into a single PNG file.

Unwrap 3d mesh into png