maya and directx .x question

[CGmonkey]

I'd assume that it's the programmer that specify where the .x file read the texture and what texture to read.

[ssjchrono]

It depends on how you exported the file. I assume you exported with materials, if so there is probobly a material definition that looks like this:


Material {
0.800000;0.800000;0.800000;1.000000;;
0.000000;
1.000000;1.000000;1.000000;;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;

TextureFilename {
"sky_Moonscape.dds";
}
}


Where it says TextureFilename, put whatever you want the texture to be, the UVs should've been exported in the xfile as well so you shouldn't have to worry about that.
Easiest thing is to open the xfile with notepad or wordpad and search for TextureFilename.

Hope this gets you on the right track. There is a lot more you have to do ofcourse. Like actually creating a material based on the xfile, and then getting the string TextureFilename to be use to make a texture in programming wise, but it's actually too much for me to explain it in this post.

[dstammel]

Thanks that was a big help.

now do you know how to export normals maps or bump maps along with it? my models have normals but when i view them in the viewer i only see the color map no normals. are normals exported as an effect file?

thanks again

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