The gas pumps are partially visible because I neglected to modify the shader tree when I modified the model. The material file in TG did not match the one in the model, so the inputs were out of order, putting the gas pump texture on the roof and making the pumps invisible.
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Nice render coming on there. At a guess I would say that some of your poly normals are flipped. If you up the model (no textures please) I'll have a go at fixing it if you like. You could try sending it through PoserRay but you've probably already done that. Another thought is that you might want to try to split the model up into separate bits and importing them separately.
Richard
If the pumps are separate objects to the building, have you tried saving them independently or as a group of two then importing them and adding them to the previously loaded station instead of opening the entire model.
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Ha great minds think alike, except your fingers moved quicker than mine. ;D
Thanks. All the normals are fine; I checked them on reading your post. It's rendered okay many times before. Here's one run just before the broken one, as I was setting up the lights.
Quote from: RedSquare on April 21, 2008, 08:52:30 PM
If the pumps are separate objects to the building, have you tried saving them independently or as a group of two then importing them and adding them to the previously loaded station instead of opening the entire model.
QuoteLast Edit: Today at 01:49:40 AM by cyphyr »
Ha great minds think alike, except your fingers moved quicker than mine. ;D
They are part of the station model. This is three models: gas station, lightbulbs, and window glass.
QuoteIt's rendered okay many times before.
OK, in TG2 or by another rendering engine?
Not always an issue but I always try to make my quads into tris. Tripple everything, (can this be done in Poserray?) and try again.
Richard
QuoteThey are part of the station model. This is three models: gas station, lightbulbs, and window glass.
:( Bum!
I think the shaders are out of order. I'll check it and report back.
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It's rendered okay many times before.
OK, in TG2 or by another rendering engine?
Whoops didn't notice the second piccy. But the windows are opaque in this one. Where as in the top one they are either missing or transparent. But if the shaders are out of order surely that would just mean that the missing elements would be a neutral grey not missing all together.
The first render was made after the second one, and yes the windows are transparent. I rebuilt my shader setup and am rendering again now.
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The answer to the question I pose in the thread title, "What does it take to get TG to render the entire model?" includes haveing shaders in the correct order. I thought there was something off when i saw the gas pump texture on the roof...
Please say that you saved the file of untitled5 before you started to add/position the lights.
QuoteI thought there was something off when i saw the gas pump texture on the roof...
Oh well noticed. Phew, it will make life so much easier when they get round to reading the .mtl files properly.
I save often. What do you mean?
Just hoping that you did indeed do that, otherwise model messed up.
Incidently, as you have imported in effect three objects into the scene does this allow you to have more shaders than the 16? (3x16) Long time since I tried to add objects to TG2 or was it modelled as three objects but saved/exported as one object? Good grief look at the time I must away to my bed. :D
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Glad you worked it out properly.
Yeah It would be so great if Planetside get the OBJ importing fully sorted for the next release. I generaly tend to use only TGO's rather than OBJ's in my images. Import the obj into its own file, work out all the texture problems and save the object out (right click on the obj node and save as ...) as a self contained tgo file.
Good luck with the render and let us see the final image :)
Richard
ps. yeah it is late, way past my bedtime :)
Quote from: RedSquare on April 21, 2008, 09:42:03 PM
Incidently, as you have imported in effect three objects into the scene does this allow you to have more shaders than the 16? (3x16) Long time since I tried to add objects to TG2 or was it modelled as three objects but saved/exported as one object? Good grief look at the time I must away to my bed. :D
Yes. You get 16 shaders per object. I am shooting for fewer not more shaders, so these are all combined, with each object sharing shaders functions and images wherever possible.
Hay all,
OK I am betting that it is the 16 texture/mesh limit per model rule and that is why you getting messed up. As above you need to first split the model up on exporting to make sure you have less then 16 textures and mesh. Otherwise you get black areas with no mapping, as it is a tgd2 thing dang it. I just go in and edit the .mtl file in word pad myself but, poser ray works for most peeps as well.
The second thing which is weired is the textures getting messed up and in the wrong places, Doh......I think all you need to do is go into the Material tree and re-point the textures right and make sure they are the right textures for the model parts you want. I have noticed that we have to go in and do that every time to the models, and have to make sure you re-point the textures of the .mtl file. You should be fine after that. Nice work by the way I thought I was the only one trying to do these, SO WTG dude for working on it. I sure wish PlanetSide will et the writing on the wall with us wanting models into tgd2 easier and with 120 textures slots at least for models.
Here is a Piece I did using that way of exporting/importing models into TGD2. Note: it took me to split this up into 4 pieces to get into tgd2, A FYI.
(http://www.theatomizer.com/Downloads/Dragon@SandyCanyon.jpg)
Hope with the other input this helps some as you doing awesome fracking work, well done bro.
DT
How many times dose this need to be said (especially with poser models!)
YOU DON'T NEED 16 TEXTURE CHANNELS !!!!!!
NO REALLY, YOU DON'T ! !
You only need the number of texture channels equal to the number of individual images your using.
Looking at my old Victoria model it has 4 (yes thats FOUR ! ) textures
The dragon has I believe only 3 (thats just THREE)
Using old Vicky as an example, sure the exported mesh has individual channels for everything from fingernails, the inside of the mouth (which could be deleted), a whole gamut of textures about the eye several for the body, hands and feet etc. But all you need to do in Terragen is plug the body, head wings etc into the relevant image and your good to go.
Happy rendering
Richard
I have some experience in this field with my knight object (poser G2 Simon).
While it is true that the object is made of 88 groups, it has only 34 materials (a lot of different textures for the armour in this case.
The pose body only used 14 materials, which consisted of only 4 image maps. Head, eyes, body and hair.
However, while you only need to load 4 textures, you still need to apply them to all the different parts.
I used PoseRay to convert the groups to materials, changing the need for 88 nodes to 34.
I don't know how to get that lower in PoseRay or in Poser...
So you might not need to cut the object is as many parts as you think, but I guess you still need more that 16 nodes to cover all the body parts with only a few image maps in a lot of cases.
Part of the solution is to use a program like UVMapper to remap the materials; if the shader is the same for several, combine them into one.
When I get back to Glastonbury I'll fire up poser and give it a go again.
I gave up last time because of the lack of support for transparency and the idea of a scene full of bald women ... (well lets not go there ;) )
I'm sure, particularly in the case of poser, that there is a lot of repetition and unnecessary texture, er... channeling ;)
Richard
I've found a reasonable solution to the bald women, it involves the right transmaps. Still grey values for transparency or opacity would be better in stead of only black and white...
There is a utility for Poser and other .obj objects at Renderosity called Grouper which allows for re-grouping of the model into texture groups thus radically reducing the channels. I tried it a few times and had some success. It's an off site link so here y go...investigate...create....
http://www.castironflamingo.com/tutorial/grouper/index.html