I've recently started exploring Directx 11. I'm almost done the introduction so I started making my own*.obj parser and it works beautifully. I accounted for the right-hand coordinate system of 3ds Max. The only problem is the texture.

Although the texture is layed out "almost properly", I can see that some mesh inherits texture colors that belong to the background part of uvw mapping. The model though seems to display the textures perfectly in 3ds Max as oppose to "almost properly" in my Directx program.

I'd love to post codes but to be honest, I don't know where's the problem. Is it the *.obj parser? Initializer? Shader, or specifically Pixel Shader? I'm hoping the experience user would be able to "triangulate" the problem from the variables I've given (If that is a ridicoulous idea of mine, feel free to ask for the code or ask for a specific part of the code).

uvw mapping:

[attachment=16768:uvw_01.png]

This is "wrong" output of my DirectX program: (The black part is likely from the black background of uvw map. I tried giving more "clearance" from the background without much hope.)

[attachment=16769:texture_problem_01.png]

While this is the "correct" output from 3ds Max:

[attachment=16770:texture_no_problem_01.png]

I think the problem is with filtering, maybie MAX is doing point sampling with texture for its viewport display (check settings in options)? Try to render it and see if problem is present?

Try to scale down a bit each UV "island" or (it is hard for me to explain so i will point you to tutorial) go to cgtextures under "Tutorials" section find "Alpha mask background trick" and read it.

I don't really have to time to apply this right now since it's 3 in the morning. But base on your answer and the cg tutorial given, should I give my UV "island" space between each other? If so, what's the "rule of thumb" between separation of these islands via pixels?

Thanks for the reply so far btw.

I am not competent man to explain how exactly texture filtering works, but i will try.

When you put your uv seam exactly on "island edge" and set filtering other then "point" the pixel shader will sample adjacent pixels from texture thus grabbing "ocean" (the part that is not island ) color, so you need scale down uv or paint (at least) 1 pixel out of "island" with color of adjacent pixel that is on "island".

I think you need at least 2 "free" pixels between uv "islands".

So you need to "expand" colors from edge at least a pixel. Here is rough painting of mine to visualise what i mean:

Hi,

I've done some work with texture atlas's and got similar problems. Check that your sampler is set to UV Clamp (I think this might only be an XNA restriction) and that your texture has deep enough borders to allow linear filtering to work OK at the margins. I can only guess that MAX using some kind of software renderer and does not internally use the texture atlas at all - perhaps it conditions the atlas into separate textures and renders the mesh in sections rather than all at once ?

Phillip

I think that clamp doesn't matter here as all islands are inside 0-1 uv range.

Being my first post, I'm impress with response of this community. After hours of debugging, I've finally figured out how to texture my models perfectly. Your replies helped me a lot in solving the texturing problem. But after applying your recommendations, it turned out that there's more problem. Since I load the model via .obj parser I recently created, I knew right away that the problem is in there. After recognizing the problem, I fixed the problem and now the model renders nicely.

With all problems of the day being solved, a new problem arise concerning my .obj loader, since it whent from Big O(n) to Big O(n^2), making it very slow in loading. I will try to implement a hash table tommorow so it will hopefully be down to Big O(nlog(n)), but that's another discussion.

Again, I appreciate all your helped, and impressed by this community.

Thank You.