Texture Comes out as one color

Pipeline
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Hey guys,

I’ve been trying to add a detailed texture to my small play area. I’ve been using a simple 256x256 image that contains a few stripes of color.

The Problem: No matter what image type (.png, .bmp, .jpg) or feature (such as the WMRepeat below) I try, the colors are “blended” into one color. (I my case blue, red, green, black and gray become a rust color)

Here’s my code:

self.charlesTexture = self.loader.loadTexture("myWork/myTextures/charlesTexture.jpg")
        self.charlesTexture.setWrapU(self.charlesTexture.WMRepeat)
        self.charlesTexture.setWrapV(self.charlesTexture.WMRepeat)

#inside MyApp(ShowBase)...
self.charles.setTexture(self.charlesTexture)

Any ideas?

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Are you sure your model has UV coordinates?

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Pretty sure, but how do I check / set them up again?

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Well, it depends on how you made the model, of course. You can check the egg file for entries. Note that if your egg file has named entries (e.g. " myname { … }") instead of unnamed entries (" { … }") then you will have to use the same name when you apply the texture, so the simple setTexture() function won’t work.

David

5

And I’m lost…

I’m using Chicken to make the .egg files, and blender to make the model itself and Paint to make the textures. Honestly, all I’ve done is make a robot in blender, export it using Chicken and apply the texture using Panda3d at execution. UV is a little out of my league, but I want to learn. Where can I pick up a tutorial or something? I’m looking in the manual right now, but it seems to be theories on how to do more advanced stuff with a few code snippets thrown in here and there.

6

Update: I found the video tutorial here: blender.org/education-help/v … riallight/

It’s useful, but I can’t find a few things. In the video it shows where UV face select mode is, but in the same spot it’s not there. I’m going to keep working and see what I find, but it seems like every solution I find brings about 3 new problems :frowning:

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Another Update: blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=123264

Shows that the newest versions of Blender took out “UV Face Select” and replaced it with Edit Mode -> (select area to be textured) -> (press) U key to “unwrap” at edges already made.