static mesh dupe texture question

gnatman

Ok, so I mainly just lurk these forums. I have a question and my instructor isn't getting back to me fast enough.. Online classes sometimes stink because of that.

question is: I have a static mesh that I imported from maya via FBX. Lets call it brickWall.FBX which was uv map'd and has a targa file placed on it. Well awesome, I see the birckwall texture on the static mesh just fine in UDK. Now lets go back to maya and lets apply a different targa to the same model and export that as concreteWall.FBX. it displays the concrete wall textures in maya, though when I import the fbx file into UDK. It still displays the brickWall texture.

I'm stumped.
any help?

r4ptur3

Look in the content browser for the material that is applied to the static mesh. I am assuming you are having the engine make one for you when the asset is imported. If you double click the material and swap out the texture it'll work fine. I generally avoid auto-importing .tga and material files for just this reason. Hope this helps!

gnatman

r4ptur3 wrote: »

Look in the content browser for the material that is applied to the static mesh. I am assuming you are having the engine make one for you when the asset is imported. If you double click the material and swap out the texture it'll work fine. I generally avoid auto-importing .tga and material files for just this reason. Hope this helps!

Yes, I was letting UDK make the materials for me
I'll give it a shot once I'm off work lol. I hope it works

gnatman

well I'd like to say thanks for the help. I have a feeling your solution might have worked. Though when I tried to change the "brick" to "concrete" it just changed all of the bricks to concrete. So I ended up re-exporting all of the static meshes without the texture applied to it and disabled the auto material when importing into UDK. I applied the materials manually and it worked.:thumbup:

r4ptur3

no problemo