Newbie problems with UV Mapping

[J:F:K]

it looks like you have forgot to render it!

[Tob]

If you want your texture sharper (when software rendering) then lower the filter on your imagefile (under effects).
To get it sharper in your modeling view (and in HW rendering), increase Hardware texture quality on your shader (could slow down your system though if your texture is to big.

Hope this helps....

[AuK59]

in reply to jfk, "Note, i've tried rendering, still comes out the same" and also, its not like its a little blurry. You can see those huge azz black lines on the roof, and how it in no way resembles the texture that i painted onto the uv map. I mean, i wouldn't be conserned if it was a little stretched or something, but it doesn't even look close to what i painted in photoshop.

[svenip]

did you check how it looks like in the UV Editor ?? does it look blurry there too ??
if it looks right you could try a different file format. tiff isn't known as the best for maya. or what i would suggest is try to use a simple projection for the texture.

[AuK59]

no, i saved the snapshot of uv mapping as a tiff, but when i was done in photoshop, i saved it as a jpeg.

[svenip]

maybe a dumb question, but how high is your image resolution ??

[J:F:K]

Originally posted by svenip
tiff isn't known as the best for maya. or what i would suggest is try to use a simple projection for the texture.

what is the best format???

[svenip]

i always use sgi (alias first was an sgi part :) ) but that's actually not the cause. it has a big size but hasn't bring me into any trouble. and last but not least i learned it that way :)
or maya native iff of course. but only tiff has some problems with maya, that's for sure i know.

[AuK59]

here is another shot, this time i used planar mapping, better, but still looks messed up, btw when i saved the snap of the uv mapping, it was 1024,1024, x,y

[svenip]

so this is now a really strange problem, and so far we know now i would say it is the surface. but from the distance it's hard to say. could you just make the surface in a .mb scene and the texture file available for us to download. so it's much better to have it in front then guessing around.

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