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I did not map all the faces together at the same time - the texture you see under the red selected faces - is the texture for the Back of the door.

I cannot use this same texture because these front faces do not fit the texture shapes created for the back of the door and these red selected faces cannot go on the same texture but away from the textured shapes - because there isn't room.

I want a separate map for the front.

The back of the door has a material called "DoorLeftBack" the front is called "DoorLeftFront".

Oh, I have occasionally used UV Maps with faces out of position to each other and it does work, but it can make it look odd when a face that's directly next to another face has an odd looking join - ie where the texture does not flow from one face to the next or if I want a rivulet of rust to dribble down the door.

For this reason I - at the moment - prefer to keep the faces in their correct positions.

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At that point ^ I was still puzzled for a bit - but I deleted the old material and created a new one for the selected faces - and it worked!
Wings gave me a new UV Map.

Thanks for the reply.

Ran13,
Oh gosh, I'm awfully sorry, I would have sent you the model long ago but I wasn't receiving email notifications of replies.

That's my fault as all the other forums I'm a member of automatically send you email replies to any thread you've posted to, - but here it seems you have to actually physically request replies for specific threads... such a bind!

After all this time I think I've figured it out (with some help from another friend) - I think my problem was something to do with left and right clicking on UVMapping.

If I right click on it, I get a separate new map. Giving that part of the model a new Material didn't make any difference, if I left click I get the mess you see in the first message.

I was designing the textures after UVMapping - I wouldn't have a clue how to do it before-hand. I might have a base texture ready before-hand or I might use a photo texture as a base, and obviously I'd have that ready before, but to design a texture for a specific model you'd have to have the UVMap first otherwise how would you know where the edges were?

I'll send you the model if you still want it, but as I think I've figured it out that would just waste your time.

But please, now that I've found out why I wasn't getting any replies, please don't stop offering to help me.

I do apologise for seeming to ignore you - I thought everybody was ignoring me!

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Argoon81,

"I remember now that if is only one object them the other UVmaped faces will show also even if they have a different material they will only be divided into to uv islands but will share the same uv. So for you to have two uv's you will need to separate the front and the back in two models."
Actually I've found that you don't need two models, you can have different UVMaps and thus different Textures as well as being able to control other material settings differently yet all in just one model.

You need to right click for a separate UVMap, and if you use a new material for each part of the model where you want a separate UVMap, you can also control the ambience, opacity, and such like separately for each UVMapped area.

UVMapping does create a new material different from the one you made yourself, but you can go into that material, rename it back to something sensible, and edit the material settings like ambience etc from there. Very flexible.

Right.... but ....? I'd hate to think I'd unknowingly burnt my boats.