How to import a Static Mesh with 2 or more materials

[Chris_MOGZY]

Hi, I have made a simple moniter on 3DS Max and as its only a simple model, it just needs 2 materials (which are set on 3DS Max), one for the screen and one for the body of the moniter. When I import the mesh though into UDK, it just has one material instead of the 2. How do I export the model from 3DS Max to make this work (or have I got to do something else)?

I know I can do a UVW map but I am not very good at these as I dont really know how to do these and also I thought because it is a simple model, surely the way I am doing it would be easier and better (especially as the screen if shiny whereas the body isnt).

Can anybody help me?

[Nawrot]

importing mesh to udk imports only geometry nd uv coordinates, it does not import textures/materials.

to put all together in udk you need:
- export and then import mesh , this is what you are doing now

- then export both materials from max as texture (power of 2 size, tga, 32bit)
- or paint both textures in photoshop

- when you have textures ready make materials out of them in udk and apply to mesh

Or search for tutorials on internets and follow one of them.

[Chris_MOGZY]

importing mesh to udk imports only geometry nd uv coordinates, it does not import textures/materials.

to put all together in udk you need:
- export and then import mesh , this is what you are doing now

- then export both materials from max as texture (power of 2 size, tga, 32bit)
- or paint both textures in photoshop

- when you have textures ready make materials out of them in udk and apply to mesh

Or search for tutorials on internets and follow one of them.

I know I'm not importing the materials, what I mean is: When I go onto the static mesh editor on UDK and where you apply the material, there is only one material to apply, how do I get 2 materials in the LODInfo section?

[KingBadger]

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[Chris_MOGZY]

Chris, you need to make a multisub material with the two channels and name them in the material then export as fbx, when you bring the model in it should now have 0 and 1 material channels. If you export as ASE your need to have a texture in the diffuse slot or it won't bring in the extra material channel

Thanks, this worked

[ranyahk]

i was wondering if there is a way to apply more than one texture to a model that is imported as a static mesh from maya? the model has about 4 pictures that are supposed to be attached to it and i imported the model with no problems but i dont know how to apply all the textures.