Render Tutorial

[evanz]

I do a slightly different way to render my stuff

I use Vue d’esprit and milkshape (obviously to import the models)

But it doesn’t recognise dds texture files, so I converted all to png and saved into a folder

In milkshape I import a model then export as obj format which creates 2 files, the obj and an MTL text file (tells the obj what and where the textures are)

I then edit the mtl to point towards the folder where the png files are, by replacing dds with png and the folder

Eg

newmtl JUHT1_dark_internal
illum 2
Kd 0.600000 0.600000 0.600000
Ka 0.200000 0.200000 0.200000
Ks 0.100000 0.100000 0.100000
Ke 0.100000 0.100000 0.100000
Ns 0.781250
map_Kd F:\FL\New textures\\JUHT1_dark_internal.png

^^ was JUHT1_dark_internal.dds

F:\FL\New textures is the drive and folder, where I saved all the converted texture files on my comp

(i converted all dds files to png using xview, free prog and saved into the folder)

Then I import the obj into vue d’esprit and it sees where the textures are and loads them

Then I set scene objects etc