   maya "painting" multiple textures onto a single surface?
  Hi. I have used maya for some time now, and I recently tried to create some game worlds. Doing soo, I faced the problem of having many textures onto a single surface (fading/drawing roads, grass and so on..)I would like to pretty much just "paint" it onto the surface, like using the 3d Paint tool, exept I didn`t suceed in painting textures with it.Is there any way to achive this?Thanks in advance.   
  if i understand you correctly you want to be able to paint directly on your meshes, right? if so then you should checkout deeppaint 3d (i belive that is what its called), they have a version for maya and 3ds max. it allows you to paint your textures directly onto your mesh using the tools from photoshop. checkout the compaines site, http://www.righthemisphere.com/   ;Quote:Original post by Jarrod1937if i understand you correctly you want to be able to paint directly on your meshes, right? if so then you should checkout deeppaint 3d (i belive that is what its called), they have a version for maya and 3ds max. it allows you to paint your textures directly onto your mesh using the tools from photoshop. checkout the compaines site, http://www.righthemisphere.com/Ok, I will check it out.What im looking for is not only being able to paint textures directly to the mesh, but being able to pain many different textures onto it.I guess thats what that software is used for though :Pthanks alot for the tipp ^^Oh, btw, I have been looking around for a *.x (directX) export-plugin, but havent found anything really, and I tried to use the one present in the DirectX SDK, though it dident save any data other then the mesh.Does anyone have any good sugestions?   ;  sorry but for questions that specific you'll have to wait fo someone who actually uses maya, sorry.   ;  Seems like Google is an unknown to people around here. :)First result on layered+textures+maya:Introduction to Layered Textures in Maya 3D;Quote:Original post by XipeSeems like Google is an unknown to people around here. :)First result on layered+textures+maya:Introduction to Layered Textures in Maya 3DI just read that guide, and it only layers textures. I want to be able to "paint" were I want a texture, and then paint another area or overcross the previous texture with another one.Just like 3d Paint with different colors, exept there would be textures instead of colors.   ;  Not sure I still understand what you're after, but maybe what you're looking for is UV mapping. UV maps can overlay eachother over different areas (this is what you're after, right?).Learning Maya probably has tutorials on that. Here are some stand-alone programs too. And Google is, as always, helpful in finding more stuff.You should probably consider joining a Maya community forum if you're serious about the program though, that way you can get faster and better help through there.Also look at tutorials for other programs (3DS/Lightwave/etc), I personally use Lightwave but all tutorials are applicable in actual theory, just that the toolsets differ a bit.   ;  then why don't you want to use deeppaint? it does exactly what you want.   ;  Dude painting the mesh never turns out all that well just select your ground planemesh you wish to paint planer-map it in "Y" (Default up) take a uv snapshot of it save as bmp,tga,jpg what ever format you wish to use import this to any paint appdo the Vinie Vango thing when your dun map this to your model.the Dxsdk pipeline (August 2005)or(October 2005) exporter works fine for maya up to v6.5 7.0 is not supported yet if your a coder recompile 6.5 with 7.0s librarys there are bugs in doing that bud seems to work..;  DeepPaint aint free, =/And I spoke with a 3d-teacher at school about this, and learned how to snapshot the UV, just as Dmac sugested, and sofar, it works just fine.Maya creates a PSD file, with layers, and then sortof imports it back (including layers), super sweet! ;)Im just a bit worried about the texture size, when doing larger areas or levels.I guess I would have to separate pices of the "ground mesh" and texture them separately or something.   