hey guys can anyone help me on 3ds max? i got a model of a m4a1 but it's in 2 models, like 2 parts. So i want to know how to merge them together as one model. Can anyone help? Ive already merged one of the model into the scenery so now there's 2 models and it looks liek the m4a1, but i just want to know how to like merge the 2 parts together without messing with the bitmaps. i tried to go to that hammer thing at the top right(hammer that says utilities), then i tried to collapse one of the parts and the bitmaps from that part were gone and were replaced using the other parts model. (For example, say i had 2 boxes and i want to merge em as 1 box. they both have different bitmaps, blue, and black, so i didnt know what to do so i went to the utility hammer thing and i collapsed the blue box so there will be only 1 model, but that blue model is now using the black model's bitmap which is black, so the blue box turned black

so my question is, does anyone know how to make 2 models as one model without messing with the bitmaps??? and if anyone knows hwo to do that, please tell me how, i would appreciate it.

u dont even need to merge them, nothing will be messed up

Yea, you just need to link BOTH of them to the frame when exporting.

but if you have to, or want to, Attach will append geometry from another mesh to the currently selected one. You can lose texture mapping by attaching though. To keep the texture mapping, first apply a uvw unwrap modifier to the object being attached, cut it (right-click the modifier), select the other mesh, attach the mesh that was just selected (the other other mesh), select the newly attached geometry, and paste the uvw unwrap modifier

thanks ill try that and see if it works for the bitmaps, and ill just use the 2 parts now i guess since i dont have to attach it but what do i name the 2 parts?

if i use the 2 parts and not attach the other part, what do i name the 2 parts?
Edited by evilkevin1 on Oct 1, 2008 at 07:52 PM

to link an object, you click on the object you want to link, then you click on the "2 windows with 2 circles icon" , it is just at the right of the redo arrow, and then press H or click on the "select by name icon(arrow icon with lines, right beside the select arrow)" and select the object you want your object to link to.