i agree with *some* mirroring, but not too much. You'd still want to have a decal on one side of the box (potentially), but not have it on all 4 sides (even then you could use seperate uv channels). The one thing i noticed in the renders, and as it shows on the normal flats, is that there is very little depth/normal detail…
Hi Synesthesia, Regarding Mesh loading. Well simply it fails to load the mesh. I have been reporting this since the change to 3DO (from the 3d window in legacy dDo). I am forced to use 3ds Max 8 for work. For some reason 3DO doesn't like meshes exported from this version as .obj files. I could get away without loading the…
Save as a 16-bit greyscale PSD. Make sure that the image has no alpha channel, and that the bottom layer is set to background (if it's not, do Layer > New > Background from Layer).
Never mind guys... apparently adding a layer in Max is virtually identical to working with layers in Photoshop. I just added a new layer and it fixed the problem. Thanks anyway.