UVW Unwraps from 3ds Max into O2?

[dealman 21]

I'm working on a mod to get used with the ArmA 2/ArmA 3 pipeline, however I'm having some issues. I've managed to get my model in-game but the textures aren't working.

I'm bad enough at unwrapping my models in 3ds Max as-is, but even more so in Oxygen 2 - it's just impossible for me. So I'm wondering if there's a way to get my UVW Unwrap from 3ds Max into O2?

So far, I've rendered the UVW as a .BMP file and converted it into a .EMF file using IrfanView - but I can't seem to find a way to load this EMF file as the UV into O2 and thus I can't get my textures to work.

Is there a way to do this? Or am I all out of luck and have to use the O2 UV Editor?

[Baraka 10]

Had never problems with importing uvw´s from 3d Max. I always saved the unwrapped Mesh as .png, and made a .paa out of it. I guess it´s more important to have the unwrapped model saved correctly. the Map is just a guidline for your texture work. Don´t change the resolution and there shouldn´t be trouble.

For me .3DS is the best working export form.

[dealman 21]

Had never problems with importing uvw´s from 3d Max. I always saved the unwrapped Mesh as .png, and made a .paa out of it. I guess it´s more important to have the unwrapped model saved correctly. the Map is just a guidline for your texture work. Don´t change the resolution and there shouldn´t be trouble.

For me .3DS is the best working export form.

No matter how I export it the UV always ends up as a mess inside O2, the layout isn't like I had it when I rendered a BMP out of it.

[Baraka 10]

Here, take this as example:

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It´s a .3ds made in 3d Max and exported from there, with it comes the uvw-map also done in Max with a basic texture.

Import the 3ds in O2, convert the texture in paa or skin it yourself with the map and see if it works.

When it´s ok for you, maybe you do something wrong in Max.

[Delta Hawk 1829]

When you apply your texture to the model you imported into O2 from 3ds Max, does your model have distorted textures, like the unwrap has gone crazy?

[dealman 21]

Thanks for the help guys, managed to fix it - turned out the export from 3ds Max had gone corrupted for whatever reason. :)

[Binkowski 26]

Have you used VM_s P3D Exporter? If you were having an issue with UV mapping becoming distorted it fixes those issues. At least it fixed mine, the link to it is below..

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Modding_Characters

It is in the Sample files.. even though that is for A3 it still works the same in max.

[max power 21]

If you have any options to 'optimize' vertices, uvs, etc, in an exporter or importer, always choose no.