one texture on multible objects?!

[marci2001]

1. render the highres
2. project the rendered image to the lowres int the same position at the same frame

if you wan't this procedure to work interactively -
:surprised
script it?
:rolleyes:

[guru_meditation]

thx for the comment!

project the rendered image to the lowres in the same position
this may be what im thinking of, could u please describe how to do this.

i attached a screenshot of the scene to make things more clearly.

there must be no transition between the textures or meshes or something. the two wings are seperate. i want to switch between them by simply turning visibility on and off in 1 frame.. lol
it takes about half a second to a second for such a small bird to open his wings. so the fake transition will not be visible ..i hope.

thx for the help so far!

[marci2001]

so you are at the exact frame of switching.
at this frame you see the lowres wing

render the wing, save the picture

(save or key the camera and cam.int. positions at this frame, this will be important because of the reprojecting)

stay at your frame

hide the lowres, unhide the highres
(they must share the SAME POSITION!!!)

with the highres selected: Get > Property > Texture Projection > Camera

open an explorer(press 8), with the "pick" coursor select the camera out of wich you've rendered your image

open the render tree, connect your rendered image to the diffuse and ambient subnodes.

in the image node select the cameraUV

don't move the camera!

freeze the highres

Hope, it will work

M

[guru_meditation]

hi there!

sorry for buggin' u again, but i still not got it.

your explanation (u confound the low and highres wing in your last post, but that was not a problem) is clear to me, but my problem is that the lowres wing, to which i want to project the texture from the highres wing, consists of about 20 grids. i highlighted only a view of them in the screenshot. they'r not merged. i have to keep' em seperate for the animation. but as soon as the projection is done i'll freeze it to make the texture stick to the grids. (please correct me if this is a wrong idea)

the problem is that if i select the lowreswing-null that contains the grids and try to put a camera projection on it, it doesn't work.

are u sure this is the way to do it? maybe i have to make the grids a group and put the projection on the group?

i'll play around a bit, would be cool if u could give me another comment about this.

big THX for the help so far!
cya!

[marci2001]

merge the grids into one single polymesh

project the texture onto them

divide the polymesh

Best Regards
M

[guru_meditation]

ok, i'll try that.

i only hope that the merging and dividing does not effect the chains path's that drive the wing animation. i fear that the weight information on the grids may be lost/confused after merging and dividing!?

well, i'll have a look at this when im back home...

thx and bigups to yourself for the help!

[marci2001]

keep the original grids, and after dividing the polymesh simply copy the weight's from the old ones onto the new ones

if you can't, try to copy the texture from the new ones onto the old ones. (drag and drop)

M

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