Texturing after animation

[leach]

hi all

i have a low poly model that may need texturing after ive animated it. what would be the best way to do this to prevent the textures swimming, or should i wait till i have the textures applied to animate.

thanks

leach

[goggle]

I'm not much of a texture person but... I shouldn't think there'd be a difference. If your textures are going to swim when animated they're going to swim no matter if you applied them before or after animation.

I would recommend you not use 3d procedural textures for animated objects unless you bake those textures first. and apply your textures in your bind pose.

Hope this helps.

-James

[gnimmel]

The way I would approch this is to reference the character for animation so that you can change the textures latter in all animation files at once.
To stop swimming textures, either don't use 3D textures, or use a texture reference object to stop swimming.

Richard

[leach]

hey thanks alot for the quick response guys, great tip on using the reference aswell, thanks.

one question, what do youmean by a texture reference object, oh, and i wont be using 3d textures.

cheers for the great help guys.

leach

[badcookie]

he means,

1) go back the the bind pose
2) select object, and in "rendering" mode go to Texturing>> Create texture reference object

[gnimmel]

Texture reference objects are only needed for 3D textures (it stops them swimming when you deform a object) so you shouldn't need it if you are only using 2D textures.

Richard

[leach]

i dont think im quite getting this! i did a test on my animated character by texturing him with a custom 2D texture, editing uv's and so on, but the textures didnt stick to the mesh when the animation ran. im very new to this, so can someone tell me, if i dont need a texture ref obj, what i do need.

i applied the texture on one of the frames of the animation. i know this wasnt a good idea, but im not sure where else to apply it. help...please!!