Texture Grid Problems

[djas]

Hey I'm new to whole '3D THING' so please on easy on me.
I was following a tutorial in an official Maya book but don't understand why I'm getting the results that I am.
I created a plane which I was supposed to add a texture to. This texture was supposed to be a two-tone grid but when I applied it to the plane only one section of the grid showed up. That is to say that the majority was one colour and a smaller square inside the first was the second.
Anyone know what's going on? I thought maybe I would have to change some values to tell maya to have more grids and what sizes.
Thanks
DJAS

[djas]

Maybe what I posted wasn't clear enough since nobody has replied so I thought I'd type that which I don't understand from the tutorial.

"In the create bar section, click on the Create Materials bar and from the pop-up menu select Create Textures"

I can't seem to find the "Create Materials" bar. I think its just bad wording in the book and I'm not following correctly. lol
Thanks
DJAS

[user_deleted]

"In the create bar section, click on the Create Materials bar and from the pop-up menu select Create Textures"

this may refer to the "create" menu, which you'll find on the menubar of the "hypershade" window.
But it is indeed a mystake form the book as there is no "create material/create texture" menu.
The "grid" is situated on the "create 2D textures" submenu ...

"tutorial in an official Maya book" ? Maybe they didn't had maya open in front of them when they wrote it ...

Guy.

[joojaa]

Yes they change stuff akll the time. So what you allways need to think of what your doing not what to click.

anyway in maya 7.0

do Create->NURBS Primitives->Plane

hit "f" to fill the screen with teh plane if you feel its small

right click on plane and choose materials-> assign new material->lambert

Atribute editor should now pop up, click on the black and white cheker next to color

Create render node window should now pop up, select cheker

attribute editor now shoul diplay options for cheker1, you can adjust the attributes here byt see next

select in menu thet part of viewport

Shading -> smooth shade all

Shading -> hardware texturing

Ok now if youve done exactly like i told you and nt clicked around anywhere else by msitake you can

click place2dTexture1 in attribute editor

Adjustrepeat UV to make more tiles

if on teh otherhand youve clicked then select teh plabene again find lambert in attribute editor hit teh arrow next to color and do whit i asid in last phase.

Anyway you better have paid attention to how teh widows WORKED not where they were because you will NEVER remeber all the things you will need to be able to click without understaning how the organization works.

[djas]

Thanks a lot guys, I really thought I was going mad. Or just stupid. lol
The problem is all sorted now, I really didn't think that it would be a typo in an official alias book,
but oh well, no harm done.
Actually there is one thing I'm not sure with your explanation, thats the "repeat UV" bit. Where in the attribute editor is that?
Thanks again.
DJAS

[joojaa]

You need to pay attenmtion to the tabs in top of attribute editor the placement is a different node iif you have nothing else in your scene then its called place2dTexture1

set 8 substep 1 yes i think i could have been clearer its atab on top!

[djas]

I now know what you meen about the 'Place3DTexture' thing. I had to create one from the create bar, there wasn't one assigned automaticaly. Is this normal behaviour? I'm still not sure on how to attach the node to my grid node.
Thanks
DJAS

[joojaa]

THeres a option for maya to create it automaticaly in the Create render node window whan you first cerate textures yes!

But there are reaseons why youd want it off

[djas]

So if I want to connect a place2DTexture node to a phong, what settings would I need in the 'connections editor'?
Thanks
DJAS

[djas]

Ok I'm really stumped now. I read somewhere that if I tick the "With New Texture Placement" in the create render node then maya will generate a Place2DTexture automaticaly. This is not working for me and I'm pulling my hair out now. lol

[joojaa]

Its only apffecting nodes you cerate after you tick it! try graphing teh network it might still be there your just missing it or something!?!!

[djas]

It works fine now after restarting the application. I know I've been hard wor but thanks for all the help with this even though it was something trivial.
Thanks again
DJAS