topic Re: Materials not showing in Stingray Forum (Read Only)

Materials not showing

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:35:31 GMT

Here is a screen shot Max2016 on left, Singray on the right. All Max materials are 'Standard' and look OK in the Stingray asset browser but they do not show on the model in the level view. I am up to Lesson 07 'Importing Assets' on the Stingray quick start videos which talks about materials not being visable but I think I have addressed this. .... so still learning. Help!

Re: Materials not showing

bruno.landry — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:13:06 GMT

Hi, check the console log it's there's a texture that is not imported correctly.

Another user had a similar problem because there was special character "." in the texture file name.

Are the texture located directy in the diffuse slot ?

Also, are the file linked correctly in the asset tracking windows in 3dsmax ?

Re: Materials not showing

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:55:53 GMT

I looked at that thread. Have a look at this screenshot. The material looks fine in the asset browser but is just a flat colour in the level view. Any Ideas?

Re: Materials not showing

dan.matlack — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:59:47 GMT

Open your house in the unit editor and make sure your materials are in the proper slots for your mesh. It does not look, at first glance, that your materials are assigned to the mesh.

Re: Materials not showing

paulkind — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:05:31 GMT

Are you sure that the material is being applied to the mesh there? My guess is that it is not actually applied to the walls. You can place the model in your scene and try dragging the material to where youwant it applied. This is the quick fix though, if that does fix your model, you will want to check your materials in max again. In general you should try to clean up your material names and apply them directly in max. It seems to be a common problem when coming over from revit or similar that materials get applied in wonky ways. From a game dev standpoint, materials should be logically named and applied directly. Having clean model names and clean material names pays off in aces.

Paul

Re: Materials not showing

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:20:07 GMT

Opened the model in the unit editor and I get this....see attached. No model but a list of the elements. Not sure what I am doing or looking for to be honest! Sorry.

Re: Materials not showing

andrew.grant — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 01:34:32 GMT

My guess is that this is UV offset/scaling. We aren't yet importing UV offset/scale in stingray. Are you using real-world scaling for your textures in Max?

Re: Materials not showing

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:59:47 GMT

Yes I am using realworld UVW

Re: Materials not showing

bruno.landry — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:43:25 GMT

Hi, that's probably the problem,

try to eidt UV without using the realworld scale.

Re: Materials not showing

andrew.grant — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:49:30 GMT

The way you can tell that this is the issue is if your materials appear to be the correct average color of the input textures. When the UV is expected to be scaled but isn't it basically looks like it averages out. So if there were NO textures, you would see just all gray materials for all the parts of the model.