how to texture kart

[penguin03]

Hi, I'm a green hand of blender. I want to make a kart. How to texture it? I can't find the texture in the tux sample in blender.

[rubberduck]

have you an image of this kart???

a good trick for texturing is adding material and after that baking it to an image

>> select the faces and assign a material with a color, that you want

>> make some seems and unwrapp it,

>> add a new image, select "bake-mode" = textures, bake it, save this as a first image

>> add lights or ao and bake lighting or ao, save this as a second image

open both in gimp and add shadows with overlaying the second image

[penguin03]

rubberduck, is there any tutorial for texturing? It seems the tux kart doesn't use the normal texturing method, I can't find the texture image in texture panel.

[rubberduck]

you must assign the texture in the uv-image editor:

assight some material to your kart
select your kart, go into editmode and click on the plus-symbol in the uv-image-editor(this adds a new image)
if you do this, you have a texture assigned, but this is black at the moment
unwrapp your kart.

If you bake now the materials: you get your texture, save it

here is a video, how to bake material/testures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-S5QAac3U

you don't have to add a material with that texture in the material/texture-panel

you can also look here:
http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/New_kart_tutorial_2

[penguin03]

rubberduck, thank you very much. I can do texture now.