I just have a quick question about Textures. My artist became a complete dick so now I am doing all modeling/texturing and programming myself. I was just wondering if the Artist actually applies the textures to meshes or if it is done through programming. I can't seem to figure it out. I thought the artist textures your meshes but I remember watching these developers and in some of the earliest episodes all of their meshes were checkerboarded black and white. Any thoughts would be great. Oh yes I also think it has to do with programming because if I texture items in say Milkshape they become all stretched and what not. This may all be because I am not an artist and I am not correctly texturing my meshes....any thoughts? Thank you all in advance; XXChester

The link is "texture coordinates" - you have your geometry data, vertices and indices etc... and you have your texture data. Each vertex has a texture coordinate (in a 0.0-1.0 range) that says which part of the texture to map to that point.

So the artist will only really be using his or her tools to assign texture coordinates to each vertex in a mesh. Your application is still responsible for combining the pieces together when rendering - TC's are bound to a specific texture, so you can get legal results from an incorrect texture...

hth
Jack

Thank you for your reply. I understand texture coordinates when I am making my own triangles and what not. The problem I am having is for example my terrain is being stretched over the whole area opposed to repeating it and not stretching and it looks horrible. That is what got me thinking that maybe they were programming it in those videos and the artist just creates the texture and does not pull the texture onto the mesh. I will post a screen shot of what I mean down below.



See how the dirt (yes thats what it is suppose to be) is really blurry, I guess I am wondering if there is a way to make the image repeat itself through Milkshape/3ds or if I should program vertices/indices all over the land and not texture them in a modeling program?

I am just really confused about this becuase I know that the meshes are being stretched and I guess what I am wondering is how to they do it in the industry, is it through programming or through art,....but from the sounds of your post its a combination.

Bingo...Thank you Evil Steeve I just figured out how to tile textures in Milkshape and now it looks much better. Thank you again.