Blender2Panda: normalmaps

[thomasegi]

if pview shows your colored image as black/white then something is seriously fishy. either with the panda-version you'r using, or your hardware or something else. please file a bugreport on the panda forum, including the files neccessary to reproduce the bug.

[Twinfun2]

It turns out that if you want to export a colored map, you need to leave "Col" enabled and "Nor" disabled.

[Twinfun2]

Hey again!

After trying to mimic what I did to solidify my understanding, my texture has not been able to display color in PView; the texture is in black and white. Any more ideas? My first attempt of exporting a UV map was successful, and included the color.

If this helps in spotting my problem, my texture displays correctly in 3d view, but the texture preview in the buttons window displays the texture in black and white.

Thanks in advance!

[Twinfun2]

My texture appears in PView after exporting thanks to your tutorial, but when I load up the model in my code, I can't see the texture.

Any ideas?

Twinfun <<< Fresh to Panda3d

[thomasegi]

@Twinfun2 sounds very much like a path-issue. make sure the texture is in the path specified in your egg file so panda can find it.

[Twinfun2]

That was the problem. Thanks bro.

[ShadeCyberPlatinum]

I'm glad your a professional and all, but I'm not, it would help if you tell what button you are pressing to switch modes. Took me like 30 minutes to figure out what you did to change a mode. So it was long. So if you could please add more comments in the video that says what you pressed to get this to happen, ty ^^

[thomasegi]

my videos are about how to use the chicken exporter. they are NOT made to teach you the blender basics. there are so many other excellent videos about that.

[3randomactors]

right i wanna make just a plain grass map for now with like a simple man (later to be a later warrior) can udo a tutoiral plz?

[thomasegi]

no. because your request is quite... unspecific. i do tutorials about single, specific tasks. exporting grass planes and animated characters are basics which are already covered in the vids.

loading those models into panda, and scripting the animations and controls is not part of the blender2panda series. please refer to the panda manual and the samples.

if you have a specific problem with exporting something (like textured geometry) feel free to request a video about that.

[3randomactors]

i mean a simple small map with 1 man on the map thiers a video on youthbe what i want it to look like ill send you it in a message

[thomasegi]

displaying maps with characters go beyond exporting stuff. it involves programming. please refer to the panda3d manual and the samples which come with your panda3d installation (see the roaming ralph sample).

[digimikeh]

thank you for the video..

[istipin]

thomas, how do i get a panda viewer? does it come with blender?

[thomasegi]

the panda viewer is part of the panda3d installation. it's called pview.