This 3ds Max copy issue is about to drive me nuts!
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I posted something on this before, went to the Autodesk 3DS Max forums asking about it, it has been a month later and I still don't know what the heck is wrong with this...
What is supposed to happen is that I will create a 2x4, take that 2x4 and make a copy of it, with that copy make more copies and build a building, then I unwrap the original and take it into Substance Painter or Quixel and texture it, but when I do this I get 1000 tiny versions of the unwrapped board on all of my boards. Basically everything I do will not fix it, I have tried instances, they don't work because the other boards become useless because I cant modify them, I have tried reference and that does not work, then I try copy and I get the same freaking result 3 times, I can take this same board out of Max and then try it again, again, and again and I keep getting the same result, a useless board which means I cant build anything without having to unwrap myself to death.
If I just use instances I cant model my object. Copy doesn't work, the textures get messed up, Reference, no clue what that does, but it doesn't work either. What else is there?
What am I doing wrong? How do I fix this? Because so far no one knows, I have read everything, listened to people, and they say there should not be any issues but I keep having this problem which has become a massive roadblock.
What is supposed to happen is that I will create a 2x4, take that 2x4 and make a copy of it, with that copy make more copies and build a building, then I unwrap the original and take it into Substance Painter or Quixel and texture it, but when I do this I get 1000 tiny versions of the unwrapped board on all of my boards. Basically everything I do will not fix it, I have tried instances, they don't work because the other boards become useless because I cant modify them, I have tried reference and that does not work, then I try copy and I get the same freaking result 3 times, I can take this same board out of Max and then try it again, again, and again and I keep getting the same result, a useless board which means I cant build anything without having to unwrap myself to death.
If I just use instances I cant model my object. Copy doesn't work, the textures get messed up, Reference, no clue what that does, but it doesn't work either. What else is there?
What am I doing wrong? How do I fix this? Because so far no one knows, I have read everything, listened to people, and they say there should not be any issues but I keep having this problem which has become a massive roadblock.
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It's likely just the order in which you're doing things. Got TeamViewer?
That fixed it, I would have never thought of that being the issue, there were so many possibilities I was just guessing away. Something like that is just hard to communicate in text, I need to find an instructor or pay a tutor or something to help me learn some of this stuff, sometimes I get hung up on a process like this and have no one in person or video to ask about. I couldn't find any videos or anything on HOW to actually do this, I just needed that tidbit of technical information.
Thanks again!
This is hard to explain. In the picture above I UV Unwrapped the bottom left and bottom right boards separately, I collapsed the UV's then copied the second upper boards over. I painted on the bottom left board but it added the same detail to the ones on the right which were separately UV'd.
Why is this?
EDIT: Never mind, I tried it again found out I did something wrong with the UV so it is fine now.
Thanks