Textures not showing up in MPE

[Surma92]

I have exported a model from ms3d, created a folder in data/models/ships and put the textures in folders named high, medium and low in the same folder, but the model is white in the model property editor. What have i missed?

[baz1701]

Ok 2 things to check.

1st look at the MPE options and make sure under textures \high is typed in.

2nd do the textures follow the BC rule and are in the correct size format (512 x 512, 1024 x 1024 etc...)

[JimmyB76]

also, make sure there is a nif file in the High folder itself (if there is a high folder), even if you have to copy it in...  alot of times there is no nif file (or copy of) in the High folder itself and thats why the model is white...

[Nebula]

umm Jimmy... no... the nif file doesn't need to be in the high folder itself. btw he is talking about the MPE and that has always had the white hull error (when resizing windows) & also what baz said.

[tiqhud]

TIP: load you NIF in MPE, then BEFORE you load a Hardpoint file, expand the image [window] to where you wish, then load you HP.

[JimmyB76]

umm Jimmy... no... the nif file doesn't need to be in the high folder itself. btw he is talking about the MPE and that has always had the white hull error (when resizing windows) & also what baz said.

yes this is true that sometimes resizing windows does turn the ships white - but believe me when i say that having a copy of the nif file in the high folder does work - i have done it myself on ships showing up white and it does work in that the textures will show up then...

[Surma92]

1. The tgas were the wrong dimensions. That has been taken care of.

2. <-the number of problems i now have. Fist of, for some reason now nothing happens when i press the load button . The edges of the window flashes, but thats all. The other is that even though previously stated issue the nif was still in the recent list under load, but the model is still white.

[Nebula]

@ Jimmy huh... I have never needed to do that... so that is very odd to me.

[JimmyB76]

trust me - it works lol  i used to get many ships showing up as white in MPE, but copying the nif and sticking it in the high folder works for me just fine when that happens   it is a tip i learned from Laurelin back in 2004 lol

ships turning white when resizing, thats still a bug that occurs here and there...  i find that resizing the window after loading the model, and before loading the hp, helps sometimes with that...

[teleguy]

You probably didn't setup the texture paths correctly. If MPE can't find textures it looks for them in the same folder as the model file. Copying the textures from High  to the folder with the nif works as well.

[baz1701]

1st look at the MPE options and make sure under textures \high is typed in.

As I mentioned here. I had white ships too till I did this.

[King Class Scout]

i'll remember that tip about setting the "where to look" in MPE's options.  i only get that if i look at ships that have more than one set if TGA's.

you can get away with not whiting the ship out if you don't expand the window downwards, I've found.

[teleguy]

1st look at the MPE options and make sure under textures \high is typed in.

Or just run the reg file that comes with MPE.

[Digital_Clarity]

To elaborate on Teleguy's statement, there should be no need to manually setup the texture path.
SDK Model Property Editor Comes with a registry entry that adds the model texture path for you in MPE.

I'm not going to disagree with Jimmy's suggestion b/c I have never tried it, however I have never had a
need to do that since I've never had an error with MPE loading textures after applying the registry entry.

[Surma92]

Solved the weird opening problem.

When i tried to troubleshoot the texture problem i set the model path myself, using quotation marks. Now i checked the registry entries and ModelDirectory had the data "path\to\model\"\ meaning it had one backslash too many. I removed the data and now atleast that works...

Putting the textures in the same folder worked.

Edit: Moar probs!
I have some transparent pixels on the textures. These are black, and should not be that. Does STBC support this? If so, how can i enable transparency?

[teleguy]

By default BC uses the alpha channel as a glow map however you can create transparent objects with the help of Nifskope.
http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,7161.0.html