add default material to asset?

metrons

still quite new to CE, i'm wondering how i export my asset and its always using a material i made for it? right now i have to assign the material every time i drop the object in the level? i'm sure its a simple fix but i just don't see it. appreciate any help.

hope this makes sense.

metrons

bump!

Sleuthman

Would love to know this too, not sure if you have to use the dummy parenting technique, haven't tried that.

metrons

Hey gang. I asked this on the ce forums and someone said the answer was to name your material the same name as your mesh in the folder and this should work. I'm on vacation and haven't been able to test but I believe that's the answer?

TAN

You need to name the material same as the model AND export the model.

mollick2

Yea that is correct. The material file just needs to be named the same as the model and in the same folder. You'll just need to link up the textures manually but you'll only have to do this the first time.

metrons

What do you do if you want to have multiple objects using the same material then I wonder?

Fnitrox

you don''t really have to name your materials and object the same...

just be sure when exporting from max to
- create the material with the exporter
- name the material in max with the relative path of the material from your max file
- assign the material and then export the cgf

example: if your save your stuff in say GameSDK/Objects/Yourlevel/ you'll have these files

object.max
object.cgf
material.mat

in the max file the name of the material or multisub material should be "GameSDK/Objects/Yourlevel/ material.mat"

look up the introduction to ce3 by Simons Fuchs for more accurate info and probably even a better explaination