Problem Textures not working

[Kaito]

I know I'm making a lot of topic's here...It will stop shortly, I promise.

So now I am on to the textures part of making my add-on. Inside of XSI, I UV Mapped my model correctly, and applied the texture. Then I exported to .fbx, used Autodesks FBX converter to convert it to .3ds, then used 3dstomsh to convert it to .msh format (XSI doesn't have a .3ds exporter). I opened up the .msh file and saw these lines at the bottom:

MATERIALS 1
1.Mat0Tex0
MATERIAL 1.Mat0Tex0
0.298 0.298 0.298 1.000
0.698 0.698 0.698 1.000
1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
0 0 0 1
TEXTURES 1
C:\box.dds

(the reason its in the C drive is because i was getting errors for to long of file names)
I converted the box texture to .dds format using Microsofts DirectX SDK, and i packaged it in a structure like this:

Box
-Meshes
--box.msh
-Config
--Spacecraft
---box.ini
-Scenarios
--test
-Textures
--box.dds

The mesh loads fine, but the textures still do not show up. I have a feeling it shouldn't be this hard to make an add-on...
What am I doing wrong?
~Kaito

 

[Donamy]

I think the "c:\" is your problem. Is the box.dds in textures ?

 

[Kaito]

It is in a folder called textures. Should i get rid of the C:\?

 

[Donamy]

yes

 

[Kaito]

but..but....it didn't work when I tried it with the other one..but.....
*sigh*
Thank you very much, i'll plug away at it some more. It did work, but when I tried that with a different one, it did nothing.

 

[Donamy]

If a texture is mapped on a model, then you should see it in the mesh.

 

[Kaito]

Would the type of texture play a difference?
Because in the box example, i used a .bmp before i converted to .dds
in my other example, used .tga, then converted to .dds
The .tga one doesn't work. Would that play a difference?

 

[Donamy]

I'm not sure, but make sure the texture size is a power of 2, ex. 256x256, 512x512 etc.

 

[Master of Blades]

[...](XSI doesn't have a .3ds exporter)[...]

Just like to point out that yes, XSI does have a .3ds exporter, you can use Crosswalk to export to 3ds max.