Can someone tell me how I can setup a direct x 11 shader over an object that was imported in as an f

TheMuffinMan9

Can someone tell me how I can setup a direct x 11 shader inside Maya over an object that was imported in as an fbx file with a texture map, disp. map, and normal map along with it from zbrush, so that the color of the texture map on the mesh is provided the effect of the shader with the maps it came along with or can be uploaded with in the direct x shader options and does not go blank white instead like it is doing? I cannot find a tutorial or any forum anywhere that shows how to do this. I am sure that it has something to do with the graphing network. But, I have not figured out a concoction that would apply the texture to the shader material. I am using a 2014 version. 

 

I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

sprunghunt

I can't think of any way to do this using just a shader. You would need to tell the shader where the textures are on your computer. You could do it using a import script. 

TheMuffinMan9

I know that it has something to do with UV binding. I tried creating a mib_geo_add_uv_texsurf1 and connected that to the directx shader material as the UV texture 0, then took the default material generated by the fbx import which I assumed had UV coordinates on it and connected that to the mib_geo_add_uv_texsurf1. But, still I get no texture through the shader material. All of the other maps, diffuse, normal, etc. work great when I load them in. But, it is all for nothing with out the texture map over the material effect. Well it is something that everyone has to do when working with maya and it should not be information that is hard to come by. But, it is for some reason. I cannot find it anywhere. I know it has to do with the graphing network inside the work area of hypershade, but no success on my own attempts yet. There is no place to upload a texture map inside the shader options like there is for every other map that you can think of. 

TheMuffinMan9

I think it is offensive how expensive Autodesk makes maya for how little information on the more important and basic necessities that they provide. It would be really nice if they approached their products like Pixologic does.

Eric Chadwick

Did you search the help?

I searched "maya help shaders", found:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2017/ENU/?guid=GUID-93DF9662-E1EA-49E5-8A97-64C491030CD7

Eric Chadwick

Also see this on our wiki
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/NyraCharacter

TheMuffinMan9

Yeah, I appreciate it. But, that is for the CGfx shader technology which I do not actually have. I only have directx 11 shader technology. Which is powerful, but just not very commonly taught apparently. I am just going to get an online tutor if I cannot figure it out by tomorrow. 

Eric Chadwick

Are you following the help file?
https://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/GUID-EE108A86-9830-455E-BF2F-64A4075E8303.htm,topicNumber=d30e692103

TheMuffinMan9

Yeah, I had a look at that a couple of days ago. The mesh just turns white when I follow those instructions and deletes the old texture that was on it. I have tried all of the simple ways. Such as then dragging the texture map over the object that was supposed to be assigned to that object. It just stays white.

poopipe

I'm struggling to understand to be honest but.. 

Check that maya is using directX for its viewport display. 

Iirc. It will render white when a dx11 Shader is applied in an opengl viewport

sprunghunt

TheMuffinMan9 said:

Yeah, I had a look at that a couple of days ago. The mesh just turns white when I follow those instructions and deletes the old texture that was on it. I have tried all of the simple ways. Such as then dragging the texture map over the object that was supposed to be assigned to that object. It just stays white.

What does the shader network look like?
Textures aren't assigned to objects. You assign shaders to objects and the texture is a property of the shader. 

Can you post a picture of the viewport with the incorrect shading? 

TheMuffinMan9

I figured it out. I had to upgrade to 2019. That was the problem and I changed to Renderman when I did that. I was using 2014 where nothing works any longer.