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How can I fix TEXTURE DISTORTION with FSDS? (Read 1051 times)
Jun 21st, 2007 at 7:39am
DonAlfonsoRoKil   Ex Member

 
Does anybody know how I can the distortion of textures on round objects fixed?
I'm using FSDS, don't want to use gmax (but I know it has a solution for this...).
Of couse I could just use wrapped textures, but that doesn't work so properly on fuselages that are very individual.
I just want to use top and bottom or what's the same left and right textures.

I also thought this would be a good topic in simviation forum, because everybody sometimes needs to know this.
If somebody has written this already in another topic, please tell me.

Well now, how to do?
 
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Reply #1 - Jun 21st, 2007 at 7:16pm

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I *believe* that the issue you are talking about happens when a texture is "stretched"  at its ends.  To take the classic example, you texture a fuselage left and right, but across the top (or bottom) where the textures meet, a colored pixel will be stretched.

For FSDS, what some people will do is to split off the top and bottom polygons as their own part, and texture accordingly.  Sometimes this is really the only way to do it, particularly when you had an almost flat upper (or lower) surface.

 

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Reply #2 - Jun 22nd, 2007 at 7:57am
The Revelator   Ex Member

 
ah so you mean that I should not texture the whole part but only polygons?! Thanks.
 
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Reply #3 - Jun 22nd, 2007 at 7:27pm

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Yes and no.

You end up texturing a part consisting of polygons split off the original part.
 

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Reply #4 - Jun 23rd, 2007 at 3:50am
The Revelator   Ex Member

 
You mean I should split my whole fuselage into stripes of polygons?
 
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Reply #5 - Jun 24th, 2007 at 2:50pm

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In this first image, you can see how I have split the fuselage texturing.  The sides left/right are one part, the top/bottom is another part.

Note that the "IL 103"  is on the upper side of the left fusealge and curves over to the "top"  Had I left it as one part, the upper part of the letters would have had some distortion because of the upper pixels getting stretched.



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I will admit that this is where I used FS Repaint.   AFter typing in the "IL 103"  I copied and pasted again to the "top" section.  There I could adjust the lettering to fit against the lower section - taking advantage of the default editor's ability to render on screen as you paint something - rotated ever so slightly to fit,

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I could then decide to join all the fuselage parts together, but, havn't seen a need to.
 

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Reply #6 - Jun 25th, 2007 at 7:58am
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Ok, thanks, now I understood it! Cheesy Cheesy
 
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