Doom 3 the evilness

Showster

Okkies I'm trying to get a multi suboject material into doom and basically its driving me nuts with an assortment of errors.

I am working from max exporting an ASE file with 3 surfaces, head, torso and accessories (also 3 textures, 512,256 and 512*256).
I make the material file and create the directories fine, edit the ASE and pk the data.
After that I load the static mesh (eventually I want to make this piece a character) into GTK or the doom editor and it gives the error:-

Couldn't load image: _emptyname

Strangely enough it loads 2 of the images in the shader, the torso and accessories map.

Heres a list of remedies I've tried:-

reset x forms
reword ase file
resize the texture which is not showing up(512*512)
tried multiple file formats
export into milkshape then to ase
change the names and location of the files
tried only 2 surfaces


If anyone has any information on this subject I'd be extremely greatful.

Cheers

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Toomas

I would put the 256*256 and 512*256 on a single 512*512 sheet and try again.

Showster

I tried that, didn't work, then reset my material editor in max and all of a sudden it worked :-s

now time to fix the normals

http://www.3d-palace.com/components/com_forum/files/thumbs/t_shot00007_169.jpg

MoP

Doom3 editor can be a bit flaky.
If you're using .ASE, it doesn't like a space in the pathname to the textures (like /Doom 3/base/models/mymodel/mytexture.tga won't read correctly, but if you remove the "/Doom 3" part, it'll read fine.

I always had to go in and manually edit my .ASE files to fix the material paths.

Showster

Yea seems like I'll be doing the same MoP, out of interest what did you make in the doom engine? :-D Did you have any joy/luck with the shader language?, it seems quite similar to q3 in principal :-D

KDR_11k

It is very similar. I think a few technicalities were changed but it still works the same.

CheapAlert

I've had this same exact problem before

basically, my .ase was missing a diffuse map section
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
*MATERIAL_LIST {
*MATERIAL_COUNT 1
*MATERIAL 0 {
*MATERIAL_NAME "Material"
*MATERIAL_CLASS "Standard"
*MATERIAL_AMBIENT 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
*MATERIAL_DIFFUSE 0.8000 0.8000 0.8000
*MATERIAL_SPECULAR 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
*MATERIAL_SHINE 0.5000
*MATERIAL_SHINESTRENGTH 0.0978
*MATERIAL_TRANSPARENCY 0.0000
*MATERIAL_WIRESIZE 1.0000
*MATERIAL_SHADING Blinn
*MATERIAL_XP_FALLOFF 0.0000
*MATERIAL_SELFILLUM 0.0000
*MATERIAL_FALLOFF In
*MATERIAL_XP_TYPE Filter
*MAP_DIFFUSE {
*MAP_NAME "MySkin"
*MAP_CLASS "Bitmap"
*MAP_SUBNO 1
*MAP_AMOUNT 1.0000
*BITMAP "\\test\models\gargy"
*MAP_TYPE Screen
*UVW_U_OFFSET 0.0000
*UVW_V_OFFSET 0.0000
*UVW_U_TILING 1.0000
*UVW_V_TILING 1.0000
*UVW_ANGLE 0.0000
*UVW_BLUR 1.0000
*UVW_BLUR_OFFSET 0.0000
*UVW_NOUSE_AMT 1.0000
*UVW_NOISE_SIZE 1.0000
*UVW_NOISE_LEVEL 1
*UVW_NOISE_PHASE 0.0000
*BITMAP_FILTER Pyramidal
}

}
}
</pre><hr />

kat

[ QUOTE ]
....I am working from max exporting an ASE file with 3 surfaces, head, torso and accessories (also 3 textures, 512,256 and 512*256)...

[/ QUOTE ]If those are individual textures then each part of the model they sit on needs to be split into a physically seperate mesh; you can't use 'multimaterials' in D3 (multiple materials/textures applied to the *same* object). If you do, D3 reads the 1st material it finds and applies it over the whole model.

Just select all the objects once split and then export to ASE which will create a single object composed of a couple of GEOMOBJECTS, one for each textured section.

You'll need to do the same thing with *.MD5 exported characters unless you plonk everything onto a single texture sheet as suggested above.

Your texture paths in the *BITMAP ref of the ASE should read as //base/[path/to/assets]

Read this and see if it helps, read from " Doomed, Doomed, we're all Doomed I tells ya " near the bottom of the page.