Uv mapping Duplicated objects

[pinxue]

Hey everyone, I got a small problem. I have a stairwell with 11 steps per side. I duplicated 10 off the original and set the duplicate options to translate down and forward for me by the right mesurements. Now when I create the shader and apply it to all the polygon faces that are up( the top of the step, it has a different shader than the face ) It shows in the openGl views that all up faces have the shader, but when I render it is only on the first step?!? But if I delete the steps that arent rendering, then reduplicate the original step wit hmy original option, then All steps render with the shader. This would be fine if I only had one shader, but I have 4 different surfaces for the tops of the steps to randomize the look of the step tops. Does anyone Know why they show up texture in the viewports, but not in the render's...! anyHelp would be greatly appreciated.

[jeffd]

Make sure that the placeTexture node has wrapping on. Textures always wrap in the viewport, but this node will affect the render.

--JeffD

[pinxue]

Yea all that is setup, but here's the wierd thing. It now works, and I changed nothing. I saved my work and went to bed, and the next day when I loaded the scene and rendered a test frame, All the textures were there?!? I think it is just maya on XP. I'll get very wierd problems if I work for over an hour and don't close down and reopen maya. Like the hypershade, If I open and close it say 4 or 5 times, then the next time I open t, none of the shaders or text show up and they wont until I shut down maya and re-open....Man I can't wait to finish up on my current project I'm working on, After that, It's redHat all the way. Maya on XP is superBuggy!!! Thanks for the suggestion though, but the texture setup worked all along.....

[joojaa]

The text dissapearing is a Geforce issue (geforce forgets to flush its buffers or something).

[pinxue]

Hmmm...would a quadro card be any better since it is still an nvidia based card? Or do you have to go with something like a fireGl card or wildcat.....?!?

[joojaa]

well dont know... but i heard a wery diturbing thing about widcat VP

[jeffd]

The quadro boards are officially considered qualified hardware.

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Community...maya\_45\_NT.html

Of course, XP is officially qualified now as well and I have heard quite a few complaints about odd behavior with it.

--JeffD