Problem with UV mapping?

Agent007 · Post by **Agent007** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:15 pm

Well i made a model using maya8 with a texture mapped out in maya.
When i exported it to .obj and imported in xsi it came up black, without a texture.

Can any1 help me?

JabbaLovesLava · Post by **JabbaLovesLava** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:18 pm

Did you add a new texture in XSI? (Just assign the same texture)

Dragonum · Post by **Dragonum** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:41 pm

if you want to export a model with texture use .fbx
obj export only the model

JabbaLovesLava · Post by **JabbaLovesLava** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:57 pm

Thats not true...

t551 · Post by **t551** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:08 pm

Well, .fbx is better for this purpose, because it was created specifically for interchange among the major 3d suites.

Dragonum · Post by **Dragonum** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:21 pm

JabbaLovesLava wrote:Thats not true...

my experience is, that you use obj only to export and import models, thats work good, for export models with textures or animations use fbx not obj.
and i never get a obj export to export the textures,too.

and "its not true" is not a good Statement

Agent007 · Post by **Agent007** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:38 pm

er i cant figure out how to add textures in xsi... the tut doesnt make any sense.

Agent007 · Post by **Agent007** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:53 pm

how do i import .fbx into xsi? it doesnt come up in the import menu

minilogoguy18 · Post by **minilogoguy18** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:24 pm

yeah i found that texturing tut to be a little haggard after reading over it just to see how well it explained it even though i know how to add textures. ok first thing is first, hit 8 to open the explorer and then hit M to open the material library in the explorer and delete everything in there. now hit 3 to activate the render panel on the left and do get>texture>image and click on yes and a dialogue box will pop up and click on new>new file from source and browse for your texture and there you go. .obj will export UVs from what ive seen but .fbx is a far better format to use since itll do bones and animations, its almost like the .xsi of alias. if you want the .fbx importer for XSI then you just gotta download it from autodesk.com.

Agent007 · Post by **Agent007** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:40 pm

thx a ton man, ill try that now

Agent007 · Post by **Agent007** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:50 pm

It worked! finally. Thanks again

minilogoguy18 · Post by **minilogoguy18** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:05 pm

no problem, they should sticky my post and replace that tut with it. XD

JabbaLovesLava · Post by **JabbaLovesLava** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:50 am

Dragonum wrote:and "its not true" is not a good Statement

I said THAT'S not ITS ... also it's a clear statement. I've used obj many times before and I've managed to get the textures in with almost no trouble at all..

minilogoguy18 · Post by **minilogoguy18** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:18 am

well i never convert at all, dont have any reason to, i have the full version of XSI and i dont use any other modeling software.

Post by **Qdin** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:45 pm

The same, Jabba'

Besides, he's german so it's okay

Agent007, can you do me the favor from now on and instead of double posting you simply press the

button and edit your post before?

I'm just saying it because you posted something after 10 minutes.. so just edit if you had the latest post

Dragonum, Are there are 'public hosters' for the XSI .FBX* Plug-in?

if you ask me, .OBJ* Isn't exactly the most relyable format, but hey: everyone has other opinions

minilogoguy18 · Post by **minilogoguy18** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:00 pm

FBX addon for Softimage|XSI 5

Post by **Qdin** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:30 am

Sweet!

thanks mini'

I've just added your link to the The Tutorial Thread

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