material slots

[Lex]

How do you get the textures in the right sequence in the editors material slots?

I have tried naming my textures like a couple tutorials suggested materialname_skin00 so that it lands in the 0 slot in the editor and materialname_skin01 for second slot, and so on. But this did not seem to work. So I thought maybe the material ID# in 3d max made a difference but that didn't work either. Maybe one of these ways is right and it just didn't work for me. Also I have had where I have one texture and one UV map ID but when I export it to the editor it has 3 material slots and all the same material.

Can someone help me with this problem and what do you do if you have 2 materials and the first should go int slot 0 and the second needs to go in slot 03?

Thanks
Lex

 

[Vassili_Zaitsev]

I think you need to select sub objects, using the Edit Mesh modifier, select polygons.

Assign material IDs in the modifier. That should set slot numbers for textures.

 

[sandorski]

Never worked for me either(using Maya). So I just Manually Assign everything in the Editor, takes a few seconds extra, but works.

 

[Lex]

Thanks for the replies guys.

What I wanted to do is get like the pants texture in slot 0, shirt texture in slot 1, and shoe texture in slot 2 in the editor, instead of them randomly coming into the editor.

I finally figured out how to get the texures I wanted from 3d max into the correct slots in the editor. A lot of trial and error but it works now.

Lex