Setting Up Materials in AC3D

MDIvey · April 3, 2019 at 8:02 PM

Hi can anyone help clarify for me what is involved in setting up Materials for AF2 models created in AC3D. I'm using the 32 bit version 8. There doesn't seem to be any way in the material UI to allow the addition of shader tags for example and my version seems to look different even to what Sylvain showed in his thread about problems with bump maps.

Here's what I get when I open a material slot…

This can be further expanded...

I don't see anything here to relate materials to textures as Sylvain has done. I can add textures to objects no problem but I'm just having a job relating what I'm doing in AC3D to what I'm reading about in the SDK ref materials.

Matt

MDIvey · April 3, 2019 at 8:08 PM

Another question I'll throw out there while I'm at it.... is there a quick way to identify if an object has any zero texture space on its UV texture maps?... maybe a plugin or something that I'm not aware of?

Matt

sydel7912 · April 3, 2019 at 8:37 PM

Hello Matt,

Go to file>settings>materials and check enable material name editing and export AC3D V12 files.

Restart AC3D to apply changes.

MDIvey · April 3, 2019 at 10:12 PM

thanks Sylvain. Ill give that a try tomorrow

Thanks Sylvain. That seems to have worked ok.

Matt

ryansumei · May 24, 2019 at 2:29 AM

Hi,

Sorry could someone help me. Where do you find this Material Editor in the AC3D, I have looked everywhere.

I am using Version 8 and have set the Export function, but can't seem to find where that window is.

Thanks

Spit40 · May 27, 2019 at 8:07 PM

F10 ?

ryansumei · May 28, 2019 at 3:31 AM

Spit40

Nope can't see anything that lets me edit material

sydel7912 · May 28, 2019 at 7:44 AM

It is not situated in the texture coordinate editor window.

In the main window, on the bottom left you have the color palette where you can append new materials by right clicking on a palette and then right click on the new material and choose "edit material"

ryansumei · May 28, 2019 at 8:43 AM

Ahh thanks Sylvain

Just so i get my head around this.

Is this just to colour on top of a texture? or is there a way o amending the texture file?

Setting Up Materials in AC3D

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