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    Brycetech: Texturing Imported Objects for Bryce 4

    hen importing models into Bryce, the textures do not import. In this tutorial you will be introdu

    a way to texture imported objects with the image maps that come with them.

    any models created in other programs include images that were used as image maps. These ima

    aps may be in any format. (e.g. .bmp, .jpg, .tga, .iff, etc.). The setup files that come with some

    ghtwave files will load the objects into the correct place, but even these will not import the imag

    aps and apply them to the model in Bryce.

    this tutorial, you will be shown how to apply your image maps to a model. Since I am very

    nclear on the rotating and repositioning of image maps in the Material Lab, I will show you how

    position an image in your image editor so that you can easily apply it without a lot of headache.

    he model that will be used in this tutorial is the Starfury from the television Babylon5 series in

    ghtwave format. When I found this model, I did not like many of the image maps that came wit

    e file. I had found several MAX files that had excellent image maps and I decided to use many o

    ose instead of what was originally downloaded. So remember that you can shop around if you do

    ke the ones included with a download or, even better, make them yourself!!! Since many people ot open .iff files (not to mention that Bryce4 doesn't import .iff files), all of these image maps wer

    nverted to .jpg format.

    nyhow, first it will be necessary to download the model to your MY DOCUMENTS folder. It is b

    download to the "My Documents" folder, but if you do not, you can still perform the tutorial.

    ick the thumbnail below. THIS TUTORIAL MODEL WILL ONLY IMPORT INTO BRYCE 4

    rry everyone else!!!

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    You need both files for this tutorial.

    Click Thumbnail to

    Download Starfury1.zip

    (the Model for this

    Tutorial 231 kb)

    Click Thumbnail to

    Download Starfury_tex.

    zip (the textures for this

    Tutorial 298 kb)

    Download the fileALL PICTURES BELOW HAVE BEEN REDUCED IN SIZE OVER 60% FROM THE

    DOWNLOAD TEXTURES!!!

    With this download you will get the following files.

    All of these files may not be used in your final image, however a brief description what each one

    ollows.

    Thruster_Fin_Small.lwo

    One of the fins in of the model. As the name

    ndicates it is the small thruster fin at the rear

    f the ship.

    Thruster_Fin_Large.lwo

    One of the fins in of the model. As the name

    ndicates it is the large thruster fin at the rear of

    he ship.

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    Starfury.lwo

    The actual body of the model.

    F_Innerwing.JPG

    One of the wing image maps.

    Flu.jpg

    One of the thruster image maps.

    Fluspec.JPG

    One of the thruster image maps.

    Furystandard.JPG

    One of the wing image maps.

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    hullmap.jpg

    A map to give the body texture.

    F_enginpanels.jpg

    A map to give the engine texture.

    urySheridan.jpg

    An alternate map for the top of the ship.

    Topwing_upper_Col_Black_Omega.jpg

    An alternate map for the wings.

    Bottomwing_lower_Col_Black_Omega.jpg

    An alternate map for the wings.

    Starfury.txt The model maker's notes.

    This file is required to be included for me to b

    able to distribute the model. However, the no

    in this file are not applicable to this model

    because I changed the file majorly so I could u

    it in Bryce4.

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    Starfury_Setup.lws The big setup file. This will be discussed in

    detail later.

    Go to Part 2 of the texture tutorial.

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    rycetech: Texturing Imported Objects for Bryce 4 Part 2

    et your File into Bryce

    Once you have unzipped the file, preferably to

    the "My Documents" folder of your C: drive.

    ( i.e. C:/My Documents) you will need to import

    the object. This is a Lightwave file that comes

    with a scene setup file. The scene setup file is

    called Starfury_Setup.lws. So in the usual

    fashion, import the object Starfury_Setup.lws.

    If you saved the file to the C:/My Documents

    folder, it will open flawlessly and place the

    three .lwo files in the correct position. If

    however you did not save it to that folder, you

    will get an error message. Simply click OK and

    find the Starfury.lwo file on your computer. It

    will then load flawlessly.

    Click OK and find Starfury.lwo if you see this error

    Once done with importing the object, save the file as a Bryce file to prevent seeing this error again.

    Now you have the model into Bryce. Once any

    imported model comes into Bryce, you should

    ALWAYS smooth it.

    It will be necessary to pick a sky setting for the

    model now because the Lightwave file is very

    dark.

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    egin Texturing

    Many of the files that I have downloaded have applied excellent naming practice. This tutorial file names t

    meshes quite well. Remember that you can select any mesh by name just like you selected all meshes.

    We now have all the preliminary steps done to the

    model, but is quite uninteresting. To rectify this

    roblem we can apply one of the image maps to all of

    he meshes to get some textures started.

    hullmap.jpg

    t is always a good idea to know what the image maps look like so you can apply them. Remember that the

    mage map called hullmap.jpg was a nice texture, so that is what will be applied.

    elect all meshes.

    here are lots of ways to put your image maps into

    ryce. However, in this tutorial we will add them one

    t a time as we need them.

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    elect the "M" and get into the Material Lab. Select

    he ambient, diffuse, and bump channel A in the

    material editor. Channel A will open. Now you can get

    o the 2D Pict Editor.

    Apply the image to the 1st and 2nd channel of the 2D

    ict Editor.

    et the diffusion, ambience and bump map to suit youraste.

    The settings I used.

    Apply map to object space.

    Now you have the start of a texture on the ship.

    y selecting all meshes, we made sure that every objectad at least some kind of texture. This is a large model

    nd is rather difficult to texture each part individually.

    You may find it necessary to ungroup the ship.

    Remember that the Starfury Null 1 sphere controls the

    hip's orientation and size.

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    dd Rough Coloring

    There are several parts of the model that are

    black. So select those parts and give them adiffuse black color.

    The mesh object name is Starfury Black_3.

    I didn't like the look of the interior of the ship,so I applied a black glass texture to the glass.

    The mesh object name is Starfury Windows_3.

    Feel free to take artistic license with any model

    you download.

    Go to Part 3 of the Texture Tutorial.

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    rycetech: Texturing Imported Objects Part 3

    Brycetech: Texturing Imported Objects for Bryce 4 Part 3

    ngine Details

    Now start adding some detail to the engines.

    Again we will use one of the image maps that

    was downloaded. In this case, it will be

    _enginpanels.jpg.

    The object mesh names are:

    Starfury Engine 1 darker_3

    Starfury Engine 2 darker_3

    Starfury Engine 3 darker_3

    Starfury Engine 4 darker_3

    Apply the material as you did before by clicking

    he same options in channel A and applying the

    mage map as shown.

    Apply the material parametrically.

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    After I had applied the material and did a

    ender of the engines close up, I decided to

    hange some of the attributes in the Material

    Lab.

    Remember, as you texture a model there will be

    ieces that you don't necessarily like the texture

    f. That is where you will need to open theMaterial Lab and play with settings until you

    each a texture for the object that you like.

    The Material Lab pictures are meant only as a gui

    not for you to use as an exact setting. However,

    you want to you can read the numbers by lookin

    very closely at the pictures.

    eginning Detailed Mapping

    The ship is beginning to take shape, but it is still rather bland in the wing area. There are 2 files

    that are made to texture the wing areas. These files aren't exactly scaled correctly, however they

    do serve the purpose.

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    Furystandard.JPG

    F_Innerwing.JPG

    Starfury Topwing_1

    (with current mapping)

    Starfury Bottomwing upper_1

    (with current mapping)

    Notice the orientation of the files above. This is necessary to apply the textures without a lot of

    headache in the Material Lab. The files are exactly the same orientation as the objects we intend to

    apply them to from top view. If you switch to top view, zoom in and do a quick render of the objec

    you can see that the maps match the object orientation. Therefore you can apply the material from

    object top very quickly and easily.

    Remove the current material from the object and add the new one to it from object top. I decided

    that I did not like the bump map for the new material so I used the bump from the hull map image

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    If the image map had been in a different orientation from the mesh as indicated above, it

    would have been easier to open an image editor and rotate the map within it.

    When doing this rotational comparison between the mesh and the image map on a model of

    your own, be sure that the mesh's rotation is 0, 0, 0 in all planes! If the orientation is

    different than the picture's rotation. Open your image editor and rotate the image map to

    match. Rotating in an image editor instead of in the material editor will save you TONS of

    headache later and is way easier than doing it in the material editor! (in my opinion)

    These are the settings used for the Starfury Topwing_1, Starfury Bottomwing lower_3, and

    Starfury Topwing lower_3 meshes. (i.e. all but one of the wings)

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    These are the settings used for the Starfury Bottomwing upper_1 mesh to give some variation

    to the ship. Notice the different mapping for the F_innerwing map.

    Go to Part 4 of the Texture Tutorial.

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    our turn to fix the image map

    The flu meshes are the next to texture. Here I purposely supplied you with a map that is not

    orrectly oriented. It is your task to properly orient it so that it matches the orientation of the flu

    when at the rotation coordinates of 0, 0, 0. The images below represent the proper orientation of

    how the maps should look once you edit the rotation of the one that is wrong. Once you determi

    which of the two image maps is rotated incorrectly, rotate it in your image editor to match the

    orrect orientation.

    SF Thrusterfins Small_3 SF Thrusterfins Large_6

    Fluspec.JPG

    Flu.jpg

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    Image mapping used for the large fins.

    Image mapping used for the small fins.

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    Apply the materials to the Large fins and the small fins.

    Hey guess what? You just finished mapping this model! Nice job by the way.

    Remember that you can alter a texture to suit your own taste. Don't just accept the oneincluded with a model. You can use a different one that you like better.

    For some more space ship textures to apply to your starfury (or other model), you may

    want to visit the spaceship textures tutorial and download some more.

    Go to Part 5 of the Texture Tutorial.

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    eview

    What did you learn in this tutorial?

    Page 1

    Here you were shown what each image map looks like. This is necessary for you to be

    able to apply each one to the object (whether it be this one or any one that you

    download). It is possible to skip this step, but why would you want to? You need toknow what each image map looks like, its orientation, its shading, and its potential for

    use in bump mapping and diffuse coloring. I strongly recommend looking at ALL image

    maps that come with a downloaded model. Also, once you have the object into Bryce,

    select each object and go to solo mode and look at how the model was created. This will

    give you a far better idea how to handle the model.

    Why were you given furySheridan.jpg? This

    hould be easy to figure out, but just in case you

    haven't here is why. This can be used in place

    f the image map you applied to the top wing.

    t will give you some really cool variations to

    our model. It is also meant to drive home the

    act that you can create your own image map to

    pply to a mesh.

    t might be interesting to see your name in the

    orner and maybe some other color

    ombination for the ship.

    An alternate map for the top of the ship.

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    Topwing_upper_Col_Black_Omega.jpg

    Another alternate map for the wings.

    Bottomwing_lower_Col_Black_Omega.jpg

    And even another alternate map for the wings.ust be sure to give some bump mapping to the

    model when using flat textured images. For

    nstance, use these as diffuse color and hullmap.

    pg as the bump map.

    Page 2:

    Here you were shown a little bit about Lightwave model files and the setup files. It's a

    really good idea to know what the extension in a file means. For instance, knowing that .

    lwo means Lightwave object and .lws is a Lightwave scene which will place all of your

    objects is very valuable.

    You were also shown what will happen when the Lightwave setup file can't find an

    object. However, you were not shown how to permanently stop such errors. So let's

    tackle that here.

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    Open the file Starfury_Setup.lws in a word editor. For instance, open it in Notepad

    (which ships with Windows)

    When you open the file you will see lines like this in the file:

    LWSC

    1

    FirstFrame 2

    LastFrame 30

    FrameStep 1

    FramesPerSecond 30.000000

    LoadObject C:\My Documents\Starfury.lwo

    ShowObject 7 7

    ObjectMotion (unnamed)

    91

    0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

    0 0 0 0 0

    EndBehavior 1

    ParentObject 10

    ShadowOptions 7

    There is more to the file than that, but this will serve as an example.

    Notice the line that says: LoadObject C:\My Documents\Starfury.lwo

    See that it says LoadObject...that means the setup file is looking in the folder

    C:\My Documents for the Starfury.lwo file to load to the scene. Since you most likely

    didn't save the file in this folder, the error will appear that states the setup file can not

    find the object. All you have to do is change every line that begins with LoadObject to

    the location on your hard drive where you saved it.

    For example:

    LoadObject C:\Some Folder Combination\Starfury.lwo

    Then the setup file will know where to find the file. Be sure to change ALL the

    LoadObject commands. Then just click "Save". Don't change the extension from .lws.

    Now Bryce will open the file for you without a problem.

    This really isn't necessary, but if you don't like seeing an error message every time you

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    use the imported object, this is how to get rid of it.

    You were also reminded in Page 2 to smooth your imported objects. It's a big

    disappointment to render a scene and see the object is faceted and unsmooth.

    Don't forget the little tip about the Starfury Null 1 sphere. I'm not sure if all Lightwave

    objects have such a control. If you have trouble with moving, resizing, or rotating an

    imported object be sure to look for such a controlling object in the model. If you don't

    have one, you may want to make one.

    All you need to do is:

    create a sphere in the center of your model

    then select all meshes

    select the "A" for attributes

    go to the linking tab

    and select the sphere you created from the list (be sure all 4 linking options are

    selected)

    Also it's a good idea to put some texture on all of the imported meshes to start even if you

    are going to change it later. It's quite a pain at times to locate some small insignificant

    mesh later if you forgot to put some kind of texture on it.

    Page 3 showed you to how to look at the orientation of objects as compared to the image

    map you intend to apply to it. Just remember to set your object's attributes for rotation

    to 0, 0 , 0 for all planes and zoom in on it from top view to see how it is orientated. Then

    you can see how a texture should be oriented so that you can easily apply it from the top

    of the mesh.

    Part 4 gave you a chance to rotate the incorrect map to match to orientation of the mesh.

    If you did it on your own..GREAT!!! But if you didn't, here is what was wrong.

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    Fluspec.JPG was oriented wrong when compared to the mating object meshes SF

    Thrusterfins Small. You needed to rotate the material map 90 degrees then save it. This

    could have been done directly in Bryce, but I believe it is faster this way.

    ite Note:

    fter you texture this model as many ways as you can imagine, find some others on the internet to

    xture. If the models that you download do not come with textures, create your own or you can gme from the spaceship texturing tutorial. Apply the same basic rules that were illustrated here

    xture your own imported meshes.

    ave fun texturing your own models!

    his is not meant to be an all inclusive instruction on every possible way to have made the final im

    produce the desired results. Bryce offers zillions of wonderful ways to replicate, multireplicate

    position, etc. in its powerful interface. Experiment!

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