Texture map to 3d head model

Texture map to 3d head model

• Heather2

  I dont think it works...bcz it not look logical and also its not possible. Besides this the requirement of my program is to do it in application myself. Please tell me How to do it using managed Directx
  
  

• Testking

  How about creating a "reference" head in a 3D modeler & just swap out different textures when you switch the face bitmaps
  

• marv101

  You will need to have valid texture coordinates defined for your mesh before you can get correct texturing. Just loading a texture won't do this - and is probably why you saw "some dark shade on 3d model".
  
  As the previous reply said, the best/easiest way of creating a correct mapping is to use a 3D modelling tool to generate your head mesh with texture coordinates. Save it from your modeller, and then import this into Direct3D via the usual methods...
  
  Alternatively, you might want to look into the "UVAtlas" components that appeared as part of D3DX in recent SDK refreshes. It'll require a fair bit of work on your part, but is probably as close as you can get for generating the mapping using just source code.
  
  hth
  Jack
  
  
  

• jrs34

  What you are looking for requires a very non-trivial application.  Best advice I can offer you is to find a development house that specializes in medical application development.
  
  

• t_shan

  thnx for ur response...Actually I want to do 3d Reconstruction of human head
  So I have to map different texture each time I use different face picture and I cant use modelling program. I have to do it in program.
  
  I have also tried by setting individual Texture Coordinates(tu, tv). I did this as follows......Load the mesh(.x file). Then Lock the mesh by 'LockVertexBuffer' method, access its vertices as 'CustomVertex.PositionNormalTextured' and then set its Texture Coordinates but it doesnt work for me. 
  
  Can you tell me something in managed directX since I am using c# for my program.
  
  

• imate_bluetooth

  It's very hard to do programmatically. Your best bet is to use a modeling program like Blender to create your model. Export it to an .X file & you won't have to do anything but load that .X file.
  
  
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