Shorts frankenmesh showing two textures


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hoogz
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Shorts frankenmesh showing two textures Apr 29, 2016 2:39:55 GMT -5

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Post by hoogz on Apr 29, 2016 2:39:55 GMT -5

First, I apologize for the length and all the screenshots, but I wanted to make it easy for anyone trying to help to see just where I go wrong on what step. Hopefully this can serve as a kind of tutorial on how not to do it.

Summary: I edit EA shorts, cut them shorter, make them lower rise in the front, replace the missing mesh parts with the default nude bottom, then juggle the UV map to fit the faces on the hacked and shorter shorts. I end up with two textures in S4S, one showing on the edited shorts mesh perfectly, and another showing where I think the old shorts mesh/texture appeared. If you know what this is, just scroll to the last screenshot.

Package: fcutoffshorts.package
Blender: fcutoffshorts.blend

Thanks so much for any help!

hoogz
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Shorts frankenmesh showing two textures Apr 29, 2016 4:31:36 GMT -5

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Post by hoogz on Apr 29, 2016 4:31:36 GMT -5

So I found this:

on this thread

But I'm obviously not applying this info correctly. I've tried removing UV_1s from both the original mesh, and the appended one. Do I need to rename/delete the DiffuseMap and DiffuseMap.001, or?? Or mess with them in the Texture panel, renaming there, or checking/unchecking? Seems I can't find the right combo and I'm too ignorant to know what's what.

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Shorts frankenmesh showing two textures Apr 29, 2016 7:43:58 GMT -5 orangemittens likes this

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Post by inabadromance on Apr 29, 2016 7:43:58 GMT -5

I'm very sleepy.. and might be missing something.. but when you edit a mesh, you need to edit the texture too (and alpha). The chunk of clothing that was removed should be removed from the texture too. In blender it shows "correctly" because body and clothing are textured by two different materials. As opposed in the preview, where the texture overrides the skin based on the alpha.

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hoogz New Member Posts: 5	Shorts frankenmesh showing two textures Apr 29, 2016 7:55:29 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by hoogz on Apr 29, 2016 7:55:29 GMT -5 Thanks, IABR, but I don't think editing the texture is necessary since I edited the UV and remapped it. I think I'm being dumb a different way, but maybe multiple ways.

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Shorts frankenmesh showing two textures Apr 29, 2016 8:11:40 GMT -5 orangemittens, brujah, and 2 more like this

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Post by j on Apr 29, 2016 8:11:40 GMT -5

Your texture overlap has an easy fix - you'd need to tweak the UV map a bit, and/or edit the alpha on the texture.

Torso: the nude torso part's UV map is overriding the short texture. You'd need to move it upwards.

Bottom: You unnecessarily stretched the shorts UV map and now your legs are mapped over your shorts.

You've got two options - you can either move the UV map portion of the leg mesh that's currently overlaping the shorts downwards, stretching the texture of the legs in the process.

Or you can move the shorts UV part overlapping the legs upwards, then editing the alpha on the texture. This will result in the loss of the bottom of the texture entirely, unless you manually edit it.

If you're going for solution No2, you'd need to double-check the specular and bump map to avoid unwanted seams or whatever on the naked legs.

Last Edit: Apr 29, 2016 8:13:48 GMT -5 by j

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