I have a cape on my character, and the material applied to the cape has a fabric texture applied to it. When I apply this same material to other objects it shows the texture,
but when I apply the material to the cloth, it only shows the color of the texture
Hello path3tic,
Would you mind showing me your material being applied to the character within your browser? Also here is a bit of documentation on applying cloth materials to your character within the “Persona” editor window.
Give this documentation a read and see if you might be overlooking something that allows you to apply this material to a cloth asset.
Mesh Mode Documentation
Cheers,
Hey path3tic,
Within the material properties of you cloth material be sure to check these options within the ‘Usage’ section.
Let me know if this resolved your issue, or if you need further assistance.
Cheers,
Just checked my settings and I do have those checked, texture still isn’t showing up.
Ok no problem. Could I see how your material is set up in the editor? Maybe try scaling up the UVs of the texture so they are more apparent on a smaller mesh?
Thanks,
My material is very basic in the editor, I’m just feeding the texture into the base color. I have checked this texture on this mesh in maya and it appears exactly as expected.
Try adding a texture coordinate to the UV’s of your texture sample and see if that makes any difference. Increase the Mapping Scale to make the details of our texture sample more apparent.
Also it seems that it is being applied to your character correctly because the red color is showing. Add a normal map to get the detail on the surface and plug that into your texture coordinate as well.
I added the texture coordinate with no change, I imported the mesh as a static mesh and applied the material, and the texture showed up just fine. I posted a picture below.
Is there any reason it should show up properly on a static mesh, but not on the character?
Perhaps you are exporting and importing the asset incorrectly. I noticed within the documentation it says, “Importing an APEX object is the same as importing a FBX file. All APEX assets are exported as .apb or .apx, Unreal Editor will determine the type of APEX object being imported.”
I am assuming you exported your asset as a .apb or .apx file as your original file for the cloth asset?
Thanks,
I exported both the mesh and the apb file from maya with the plugin from nvidia. The cloth simulates cleanly, it’s just textures that are acting strangely.
Hey again path3tic,
I wanted to check in to see if you were still having issues? Apologies for my absence, I have been on Holiday break for a little bit.
It occurred to me that one thing you could check is the texture sample options. Double click the texture sample to open up the details panel for various options. Try changing the ‘Texture Group’ in which the texture sample is applied. In your case you will want to change it to ‘Character.’
Here is a screenshot you can use as reference to find the settings necessary for change.
Texture Sample Details Editor
Hopefully this helps resolve your issue, but if you are still experiencing issues let me know and we can try something else.
Thanks,
This sounded like a promising answer, but after changing that property in the texture, still no change. Thanks for coming back to this problem. Sorry for the delay on my response.
Is the UV of this cloth on it’s own separate unwrap, or is it in the same UV space as your character?
What you will want to do is unwrap your cloth object so it has its own UV map, so when you apply a material to the cloth object it displays correctly.
Cheers,
The cloth is in its own UV space, I just double checked it.
Thanks,
Path3tic
Hey again path3tic,
I have another suggestion you might want to try. Try adding a normal map to your material and adding a ‘Texture Coordinate’ node. Be sure your material has the ‘Tangent Space Normal’ box checked.
Let me know what you discover!
Thanks,
