Multi Texture Models seem to vanish once you press F1 to F4..
Anyone having issues with models it may be worth checking if that's what your using ?

A two textured object worked for me fine. I think lee said in a blog that the light mapper would do only 6 textures per object.
Do you have more then 6 textures for that object?

I just tried my castle that I got from Arteria. It uses 21 textures. They all show up before and after lightmapping, although they look odd afterwards. Collision is wonky on the object as well. I haven't made any modifications to it though.

Did you try this?

For entities that scale after baking, add resetlimbmatrix=1 to the FPE, delete the BIN and DBO file and try the entity again

Even if you don't use the scale, maybe it will work.

I don't know if you were suggesting that to me, Myke, or syncromesh, but I tried it, and collision got even stranger. I even Undid it, deleted the bin and dbo, relaunched, relightmapped, and collision got even stranger! LOL, mine is definitely not a stock mesh, (20,422 vertices, 21 jpg textures) so I can't be upset. I think it's rather funny actually. (The textures looked better, though!)

I'm having the same problem guys. But I have also problems with models that use 2-3 texture maps.

To those who don't quite have the knowledge .... Is "F1 to F4" Separate functions...... or is it F1 is basic.... and F4 does the whole package ?

HTH

3com

Thanks 3com

My problem is alot of my models just explode and rotate, scale to crazy sizes and also move on the map while i think the baking is a great thing it needs a LOT of work to support 3rd party models.

If this is not possible perhaps you could make the real time shadows better and less demanding.

Ye it does seem to be third party models that cause issues..... I used 3D World studio for many and they are fine ...but the multi-texture ones im playing with are having non of it..... so it could be down to software used as well ?

I use 3dmax and with 2 textures it does this i know i could always redo them to have 1 texture but i don't have the time or the heart to convert them all its bad enough we are forced to use an old .x format.



I even had the same problem as jerry with the collision but i guess lee will sort something out for us.

I have just experienced vanishing objects. Both from the legacy pack so doubtful they have more than 1 texture. I have baked the same scene many times before I got this as well, so not sure why it happened. Just baking another level with them back in place..

I'm really curious about the way multi-textured objects would be implemented in regards to the FPE. For example, if you have a 3 texture model with each having a diffuse, normal and specular mapped image (so 9 images involved), what sort of convention is used and how would it be listed in the FPE? For example, let's say you have a large sectional model that because of the level of difficulty in assembling it in divided sections within the FPSCR editor, you decide to glue the sections together in a single model, but you wish to keep 3 maps separate (3 divided into their _D, _S and _N images, totaling 9 images) so as to minimalize pixilation - or whatever (please don't start arguments here about single map advantages - I know how to use them and I'm not making games, I'm making videos). Anyway, let's say we call the glued model "multimesh.x" Would the textures be something like multimesh1_D.dds, multimesh2_D.dds, multimesh3_.dds and so forth also with the specular and normal maps? Furthermore, how would it be listed in the FPE? would you simply put textured = multimesh1_D.dds or perhaps would it have to be separated by commas such as textured = multimesh1_D.dds , multimesh2_D.dds , multimesh3_D.dds and so forth - or would it be something different than that altogether? If you're curious about why I'm interested in this, it is because I have some huge models that are stacked in groups of 3 and aligning them is critical to their animations appearing right, as well as entry ways needing precise alignments. The components have many elements in the mesh and required 4096 sizing to keep their sharpness. The animations run well and my frame rate is excellent when I'm stacking the models, but I can't afford spending hours aligning them. The multi-textured idea seems to be a viable solution - but only if I can employ diffuse, specular and normal .dds images. Am I hoping for too much?