Seam problem (Max 8)

Kyuuten

http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q158/whatup2003/?action=view&current=w2.jpg
http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q158/whatup2003/?action=view&current=w1.jpg

Above are two renderings of the same model from different distance. From close up the seam is not visible at all, but when zoomed out there is a grey seam line clearly visible. Anyone can help explain this problem? Thanks!

Joshua Stubbles

Looks like a mip map issue to me.
Can you post your texture?

Kyuuten

sure, thanks for replying
http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q158/whatup2003/?action=view&current=headcopy.jpg

StJoris

Yeah I think a combination of mip map and filtering, try making a border with the same pixel colour, so when filtering it doesn´t take the grey in. The easy way to do this is render to texture, just set up the model and texture, and tick on padding, that way it´ll create a border of a px width that you specify and make that the same colour. Just render to the same uvs and same size, with your texture applied.

Kyuuten

Thanks for the reply StJoris.
I tried bake to texture with padding set to 1 and diffuse map but the problem just got worse. And the lighting gave the texture more shadows. (The original was self illuminated)
I guess I'm doing it wrong somewhere?

StJoris

What type of map did you pick?
Go for diffuse, and untick the shadow and lighting options at the bottom. I haven´t really tried it out, but it should work allright if i´m not mistaken.

Kyuuten

I did pick diffuse and unchecked shadow and lighting. But instead of fixing it I got a white seam line up close and a thicker grey seam line afar.

osman

how does your uv overlays that texture, could you show us that?
And if you want to bake without adding new shadows to your diffuse, you have to select the material for your object and then set it to 100% self illuminated.
I'd just try to paint the border, cus you only have one colour, so just paint it black.