help needed please

[Pyrocitor]

i'm just new to the whole design thing so i need some help

i've been using gmax and made my own aircraft, i got it running in FS but the texture doesn't show up

can someone help
thanks

[Felix/FFDS]

Common "first time" problems... 1

your textures cannot be 24-bit (16M colour) bitmaps (*.bmp), not tgas, gifs, jpgs.  At the very least, try with a basic 8-bit (256 colour) bitmap first.

they NEED to be placed in the correctly typed TEXTURE folder  (and don't fool yourself by thinking no one writes "texure" -  guilty parties shall remain nameless.)








1 and you cannot be considered a serious flightsim modelling 'expert' until you've done one of these at least once .. especially after you know better!

[Pyrocitor]

i tried that but it didn't work

the texture is actually showing up white so maybe i'm texturing it wrong in gmax
is there somewhere i can get a good texturing tutorial

one other thing, how do i import .max files into gmax

[Travis]

As for importing *.max files into Gmax: it can't be done!  I've been looking for a fix for this problem for a bit now, and I haven't found squat.  The only solution that has been forwarded is to download a free trial of 3DS Max and convert the *.max to a *.3DS file and then import into Gmax.

As for your textures: what color is the baseline for the model in Gmax?  If it's white, then your texture folder and aircraft config are set up wrong.  If its a different color, the texture files themselves are to blame.

[Moach]

not only you have to put your bitmaps in the texture folder, you also have to convert them to the proper "extended" format

to do this, get DXTBMP... it's a little program that will take your 24bit BMPs and convert them to DXT or any other supported format

i dont recall where you can get this program, but if you google the name, you are very likely to find it

Moach