Missing textures in an executable

[dwaik]

are your textures included with the model?
maybe it reads the texture from a reference, try to export without a texture and apply it into vizard, unfortunately i dont use 3ds max here, i use the way above with obj files from maya and for 3Ds format i use "deep exploration"

[farshizzo]

Is the model file in the same directory as the Vizard script?

Can you post the Virtual Path of the model and texture files that appear in the asset list?

[Dave]

Hi - the model file (PenycloddiaTrial.obj) is in the Vizard Resources folder, along with the texture - see attached files showing virtual path for both. The Vizard script is in a subdirectory of the Vizard examples folder. On previous occasions this always seemed to work fine and it still does, with the exception of the executable.

The attached are for a much simplified version of the model with only one simple part of the whole model and one texture (Ground2) for which I am seeing the same problem.

If in this case I attach the texture with viz.addTexture within the script (as Dwaik suggested) then it does work ok but the model has many subcomponents and it would be a pain to add import them all and add the textures individually.

Because of this I thought it may be something in the way I am exporting the obj file from 3DsMax - though I haven't changed any settings and I cannot see why Vizard would see it in Step 1 of the Save to Executable but then lose the texture on step 2.

I am still sure that it is something really simple and obvious but at the moment I am just going slowly mad!!

Thanks for any help

The simplified script is:-

import viz

viz.go(viz.FULLSCREEN)

env = viz.add(viz.ENVIRONMENT_MAP,'sky.jpg')

sky = viz.add('skydome.dlc')
sky.texture(env)

Penycloddiau = viz.add('PenycloddiauTrial.obj')
Penycloddiau.scale(0.0018,0.0018,0.0018)
Penycloddiau.translate(50,450,0)
Penycloddiau.setAxisAngle( [0, 1, 0 , 23] )
Penycloddiau.appearance(viz.DECAL)
#Penycloddiau.add(fadeout)
#Penycloddiau.disable(viz.INTERSECTION)


view = viz.get(viz.MAIN_VIEWPOINT)
view.translate(50,500,-250)

[dwaik]

if your textures are embedded within the obj, the obj keeps a link on texture, i had that problem before, and i fixed it by apply textures in vizard if the number of texture is not huge or by exporting the model into 3Ds format
hope that helps

[Dave]

Hi dwaik - thanks - yes, your method does work but there are a lot of models and trextures - the model has too many fces to save as a 3ds file. Also, the whole model is resized and translated in Vizard. If I input all of the parts of the large model as individual small models so that I can apply the textures within Vizard the centre of each model will be different to that of the overall model and I will need to re-calculate all of the translations! I did hope that I may be able to apply the textures to the model children, but the obj file doesn't appear to have any children.

Unless anyone comes up with a possible fix I think I am either going to have to use the method you suggested (and re-calculate the transformations of each model) or try and reduce the face count to save it as a 3ds.

Many thanks