Please take a look at the picture: a serious material/texture/particles issue

Support Materials and Textures
#1

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When I make a particle system on a common material like solid colors or color ramp, the hair gets pretty and gets the right color.
But if I make the particle system on a material with FACE TEXTURE option chosen as seen on the picture, and make UV mapping(eg. project from view), the particles stay WHITE!!!
Please compare the two sections on the picture, - the upper section (face texture) is ugly white - obviously not working at all - the one below linked to a plain color ramp is nice and pretty.

Does anyone know how I can let the particles hair take the color of the UV map??? I´ve spent hours on solving this
problem - used to be easy in 2.49b but now in 2.6+ its complicated…

#2

Is there reason why you want to use ‘Face Texture’ rather than just add the texture to the material which would then show up the texture in the particles


#3

Well, obviously I need “face texture” to use the AV mapping tool…, my texture(based on a picture) is a furry animal, and I need the nose, eyes, ears on the texture to show up precisely on the model where they are supposed to be:) so I need the AV mapping tool to adjust I guess…

#4

You don’t need ‘face texture’ enabled for that.
UV mapped textures added to the material are visible in the 3d viewport in textured view as well as in the UV/Image editor window

#5

You´re an angle:cool: I didn´t know that technique, but now I do, it works splendidly