Woo482's Mars rover MK 1 Release

[Woo482]

Hello my mars rover will be ready for release soon but I want some one to test it for me to make sure I have packed it correctly to any one who wants to test it pm me but you will need the delta glider iv and ummu.
and dont give it to any one or upload it any wear if you do want to test it.
Pm me if you want to help

EDIT1: remember that its not all mine gattispilot got it in to orbiter and made the axels and animations and re painted the textures.

 

[darthsithvalek]

post some screenies

 

[Woo482]

well its

but whit white stripes on the wheels

 

[gattispilot]

here is the rover and the rover in the Delta GliderIV:

 

[Master of Blades]

's Cool... but it's very... orange...

 

[Woo482]

I know it I think you can repaint it if you want so does any one want to be the first person apart from me and gattispilot to use this ? i need some one to check the package I have made
EDIT: no you cant repaint it just remembed the only thing you can re texture are the wheels

 

[gattispilot]

Actually the orange, blue, grey pieces are materials no textures. So using meshwizard or something one could change the colors

 

[Woo482]

oh ok but you can just alter the dds for the tires

 

[gattispilot]

correct.

 

[Woo482]

so if you want you can have pink tires !!
EDIT: shouldent you have a addon developer tag all I did to be called a addon developer is re skin the dgiv but you write dll's and create vessels
EDIT2: I have a tester now

 

[Master of Blades]

Perhaps you could put in some work (after this thing is fully finished) making it retextureable?

 

[Woo482]

yes but I dont know how to do that I made this model in xsi mod tool and then gattispilot got it in to orbiter after remaking the textures so I would have to ask him on how to do that

 

[tgep]

I'd test it but I realy do have my hands full at the moment with 1999 mods .....

 

[Coolhand]

To get your textures going, you should first lay down the UV coordinates, you should have some kind of UV mapping tools in Xsi - you must have used this to some extent for the tyres, look up "UV mapping" or "Unwrapping" in your manual or google it. This basically assigns pixel coordinates to a surface... so it'll tell Xsi to draw this image pixel here on this position on this polygon and so on, this UV coordinate data is also exported with the rest of the .msh.

After this you'll have a template that you can save and open in a paint package to paint your texture. I've included an attachment of an image i've painted over the top of the UV coordinates, after arranging the polygons on the template (i have a UV editor that lets me do this pretty easily, im sure Xsi has an equivalent) i eported this as the image of wires that you can see overlaying the painted image. your UV unwrap should be a bit more simple than this since you're dealing with hard angular surfaces that lend themselves to easier unwrapping or uvmapping.