On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:45:43 -0400 "Ampere K. Hardraade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...code last weekend, and did this: > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/PROTOTYPE.jpg > this: > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/FINNAIR.jpg > and this: > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/KLM.jpg
Cool.
I have what's probably a dumb question; but I'm still very much new to
the graphics work.
You use different textures for the different components of the aircraft.
Going that way, coming up with a different paint job for the aircraft
consists of replacing those files as needed; and the physical placement
of the graphics within the pixel boundaries of the file is fairly
straightforward. However, I've been told by a number of people that
graphics performance is better if perfectly square textures are used,
which is why people merge multiple images into one square texture and
use e.g. UV mapping in Blender to assign different portions of the
texture to different faces of the 3D model. What I'm wondering is
how that would be implemented for making new liveries.
For example, the 737 currently comes with a United paint job. Say I
wanted to create a US Air paint job for it. Naively, what I *think*
I'd have to do at this point is to create images of the textures to
apply to the different parts of the US Air aircraft; then create one
square image file of the same dimensions as the United texture; then
cut and paste the different images for different parts of the aircraft
into the square texture, at *exactly* the same locations that they're
positioned in the United texture (so that the face-texture mapping
that was done with the original United texture will also work with the
US Air texture). I have no idea how the latter step gets done accurately;
but the alternatives, it seems to me, are to either use a different
3D model file (redoing the face-texture assignment with the new texture),
which defeats the whole point of the Texture-Path; or to do as you've
done, with different non-square image files for different parts of the
aircraft.
I'm sure I'm missing something that would be obvious to someone who's more
experienced at this than I am. Can someone clue me in?
Thanks muchly.
-c
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