One Mesh, Multiple Textures

[composerboy]

Is it possible to import one big mesh with multiple different textures UV mapped onto it?

[LuckyGirl]

Do you mean if Jonwil importer supports this? Should you work with MilkShape, I think this is not possible in MS.
I don't think it is possible in the importer either - you can assign 1 texture to multiple meshes, but not the other way round.

[CoasterSim.Fan]

I know you can apply multiple textures to multiple meshes but I don’t see it being possible to make one mesh use multiple textures.

[composerboy]

I have one big mesh in MS that uses many textures, all 256x256. It's easy to do, using groups. I just wondered if anyone had gotten something like this into the game, and how, before I went to the trouble of testing it myself.

[LuckyGirl]

yip, should work fine

[Phil]

If all your groups are seperate "objects" inside the mesh then in the importer you will be able to assign the different textures to them.

[composerboy]

how do you make a part of a mesh a separate object?

[LuckyGirl]

I think if you only have one original object (a sphere, cylinder, etc) you can't. But if your item is made of different objects (e.g. a cylinder and a plane), each counts as a group. So, if you want to assign different textures to them, do not make the mistake and re-group them.
Each group will show up as a seperate mesh in the importer as well.

[Vodhin]

Bitturn will create separate meshes for each different texture used.

Simply look at the texture list of the new ASE file in bitturn- that will be the mesh order in the importer :D