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Hi Everyone,

I am new to iClone and would appreciate any help I can get to my below question.

Is it possible to apply a chess board texture created in photoshop to follow the ground of a specified area of the terrain I create in iClone? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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@biggins - welcome to the forum!

@swoop :pinch:

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the animating and technical part is easy, it's the stories that are hard lol
sounds like fun, would just be nice to do something with a bro :p

here's one track I've been trying to come up with an idea for https://soundcloud.com/anirhythm/drama


@biggins - swoop is right - with the exception of the heightmap terrain which doesn't have a formal uv. I'm sure it's planar though. - just about every other mesh allows you to view a uv map for your prop, when you call up your texture - place your uv map over it with a little transparency so you see how it's going to fit your model. - the uv map size is also relative - so if for example your terrain is 500 x 500 and your texture is 1k x 1k - just resize either one of them to match the other so you can see how it will translate in iclone. usually you want to resize the texture to fit the UV - but sometimes you want to keep the image hd, so you resize the uv to fit the larger texture - it will still be relative.

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Before you guys get going and and lose sight of the OP's question this time, remember that it's worth being kind. We have all been new to things!

Even sw00000p:
http://forum.3d-plugin.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=246
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.:w00t:

OMG, this is how I imagined swoop when I read that!!



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@biggins - yeah, we hijacked the thread, consider it like a royal welcome! :P
keep asking any more questions and we'll be happy to answer - we're just having a little fun till then :cool:


then swoop was like -


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swoop, I discovered the UV trick recently designing a character ....as long as you don't change proportions it works - so if you make a 500 x 500 uv 1,000 x 1,000 it still wraps the same ....just don't change it from something like 500x500 to 500 x 250 - it has to be relative.

I do both, shorts when I have a quick fun idea ....and full length music video to pretend I'm on tv! lol :D - which I do have mtv accounts though, so I can send it to them for consideration to air in their networks.

I'm happy you enjoyed the track, if you or anyone wants a copy of any of my releases, email me - iclone community special, me love u long time! <3

the main idea that's hit me so far with that track is a space battle video, 2nd idea a godzilla video ..but tracking with real footage, make a movie preview, with compositing and the whole 9!! that'd be the 30-60 second clip! You down ? i put you in credits and give you some gawd like illuminati director title for your imdb page! we call you sw00000p Awesomeberg or something!! -makes director hands- Aaaaaction!! \:cool:/

if you really want to do it, maybe we should start a new production thread!

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"Even sw00000p:
http://forum.3d-plugin.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=246"

OMG!!!! OMG!!!! OMG!!!!

swoooop !!!!! You were a normal guy !!!!! with a earth language!!!!!:w00t: :w00t:

What happen to you ????? Did you travel on a transmitter pod with a chipset ????

Marc

PS: Rampa , you have to work for NSA!!
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@swoop - contract shmontract, don't you know who I am ?!! -brings swoop to time teleporter- :w00t:

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