More than 32 materials

[Auteur]

I tried to export a starship I created using blender source tools and it came up with more than 57 dmx files with no textures at all. When I tried to compile it all it shows that I couldn't as it exceeded 32 materials how do I fix this problem?

[R234]

By using 32 materials or less.

[Auteur]

Originally posted by R234:

By using 32 materials or less.

So do I remove objects or is there another way

[episoder]

what sorta model is that that it needs so many textures? 50+ dmx? you could maybe merge the meshes that use the same textures. this amount of textures is approximately the amount of materials you should have.

[Auteur]

Originally posted by episoder:

what sorta model is that that it needs so many textures? 50+ dmx? you could maybe merge the meshes that use the same textures. this amount of textures is approximately the amount of materials you should have.

I've merged everything together into a single mesh and texture and it still doesn't work.

[Auteur]

Originally posted by episoder:

what sorta model is that that it needs so many textures? 50+ dmx? you could maybe merge the meshes that use the same textures. this amount of textures is approximately the amount of materials you should have.

I guess I'll have to stick to animating workshop models now converting from obj to mdl is very tedious

[episoder]

and how many materials does it use in blender? if it uses a single textures you should apply a single material after the merge. you did that? if you export after that it should compile.

[TTV_WifeLeaverGaming]

Try compiling it using the gmod compiler. It might work.

[Auteur]

Originally posted by episoder:

and how many materials does it use in blender? if it uses a single textures you should apply a single material after the merge. you did that? if you export after that it should compile.

Originally posted by episoder:

and how many materials does it use in blender? if it uses a single textures you should apply a single material after the merge. you did that? if you export after that it should compile.

It shows as just one grayish stock texture and even when exported that and ran it through the compiler it hasn't worked

[Marco Skoll]

Have you actually assigned the materials in Blender?

(And removed any that aren't actually being used? I'm not sure that would be a problem, but best to be sure).

[Auteur]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

Have you actually assigned the materials in Blender?

(And removed any that aren't actually being used? I'm not sure that would be a problem, but best to be sure).

No i dont think I assigned them

[Marco Skoll]

Then what you've probably got is one model that thinks it has 57 materials.

[Auteur]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

Then what you've probably got is one model that thinks it has 57 materials.

It original was gonna have 57 dmxs but I grouped it into one

[Marco Skoll]

Yes, but each of those DMXs will have had its own material.

Although many game engines don't, Blender and Source do allow models to have multiple materials, so just grouping those models into one results in one model with 57 materials.
(Equally, you can use one material over 57 models).

Unless you reassign the materials used by the model, grouping it changes nothing.

[episoder]

Originally posted by Captain Jean Luc Picard:

It shows as just one grayish stock texture and even when exported that and ran it through the compiler it hasn't worked

that means... it has no texture? wth. what you try to port then? if this obj (as posted) actually has textures you should use them in blender. you gotta atleast check if the model and uvs and textures are working correct. and if it imported as multiple submeshes is it possible every submesh just has a different material name. as said you gotta check the materials tab in blender (it's the orange circle tab, not the checkerboard - which are textures) and make sure those are managed to be unique materials without duplicates. that's how you could fix the count.