Damaging Materials

[Paul Chew]

I got a problem with my materials in Crysis on my building. Whenever it explodes or falls apart or when you shoot it, the textures gets replace with a red tecture saying "replace me". Is there a way around this problem?

[Ros]

Hi Paul,

Following Jules' cue - can you upload your max file with the textures used too, and I can check it out?

[Paul Chew]

Sure

http://www.gamefront.com/files/22580560/Paul_Chew_Sem2_Assignment1.zip

[Rosamond Kember]

Hi Paul,

A few things:

1. you didn't upload your texture tif files, so I can't check the material replace me problem. Can you zip up you whole BP2 folder, with the .mtl file, texture tif files, object .cgf  files and upload again? I don't need your level file.

In fact, when I try and open up your max file, I can see in the Missing External Files window (see attached) that your material files aren't in the correct directory, i.e. in the Barcelona_Pavillion folder alongside your .max file, .mtl file, .cgf file.

Fix this up and then upload again if you are still having problems - let me know how you go either way.

While I'm at it:

2. Your 3ds Max Units Setup settings are wrong - should be in cm, not mm, so when you bring your model into CryENGINE it will be at the wrong scale. Changing to cm, scaling it up, and doing a Reset Xform in Max would fix this. As I mentioned to Daming, you can watch the reset Xform  process here in the Creating A Prop – Modeling And Preparation video tutorial, at the 12:46 minute mark. Scaling objects afterwards in CryENGINE can cause all kinds of problems. Not performing a Reset Xform can cause problems in relation to materials, rotation and scaling in CryENGINE.

3. Don't have hyphens and dots in your names of objects, files, folders etc

4. It's strange that you have linked a Group of objects to the main dummy - I wouldn't ever use Groups, you should be either attaching everything within the group to make one object or using the whole dummy helper method and linking the objects in that group to a dummy, which is then linked to the Main dummy.

Good luck! Let me know how you go.

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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:03:53 -0700
From: pche...@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Damaging Materials

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[Jules Cromarty]

Hi Paul,
I got it working.
I assume you are creating an archetype entity destroyable object in crysis, as the physics worked when I did it that way.
I didn't experience the replace me texture problem, but I fixed up your materials in max before I exported. So I figure that is where the problem lies. As Ros says above, you have some bad names in your materials. 'Material #70' for example needs to be changed to only contain letters, numbers and underscores. That should be done for every level of the material. 'Map #01' or similar needs to be changed as well.
Delete the material you exported before from the folder structure, or rename the fixed material and re-export it then re-export your geometry and it should work.
Cheers
Jules