HOWTO: Make A New Nexuiz Playermodel.

[MC SE7EN]

http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/data/models/player/

This is the correct link that should be listed in the first post.

[ai]

http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/data/models/player/

This is the correct link that should be listed in the first post.

Uhm.. what?
If it's for the source models then that is not correct. That's just the .zym files (which Nexuiz uses) but as far as I know you cannot actually open any .zym files in any application. There is a script for Blender to import Half-Life format (.smd) and it also exports to a .zym, but I don't think you can import it.

Here is a link however to the sources: http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/mis ... ce/models/
Download 'Players.zip'.

[MC SE7EN]

http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/data/models/player/

This is the correct link that should be listed in the first post.

Uhm.. what?
If it's for the source models then that is not correct. That's just the .zym files (which Nexuiz uses) but as far as I know you cannot actually open any .zym files in any application. There is a script for Blender to import Half-Life format (.smd) and it also exports to a .zym, but I don't think you can import it.

Here is a link however to the sources: http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/mis ... ce/models/
Download 'Players.zip'.

Hm, i must have posted the wrong link... I was looking around at all the different folders...

Thanks for the correction!

[MC SE7EN]

Alrighty, so I've got my .smd files, but now what? I need to know...

A) How to get the skin/textures actually ONTO the model
B) How to compile a .zym on a Mac. All the solutions I've seen after reading quite a few pages into the thread have been for Windows.

[Flying Steel]

So what about the player cameras (default and chase) positions, weapon positioning and hitbox dimensions for player characters?

Are these hardcoded to be always the same for all models? If so, what are the coordinates and dimension values for them?

Or can these be changed for each character model? If so how?


This is where the rubber (content) meets the road (engine), without this information, player models will look really wacked in game, with weapons floating above or below the character's arms, cameras positioned inside the player model or small characters that die when you shoot near them or big characters that don't suffer any damage when you shoot them in most places (like their head) .

[Flying Steel]

Bump.

So why no response to the questions I posted?

Is this a bad place to post them or was I not clear enough about what I was asking?

[tZork]

weapon position is control by bones, so those get the right pos if you rig it right.
you don't see you own chara in non case, so you wont end up looking inside the model either.

as for sizes:

vector PL_VIEW_OFS = '0 0 35';
vector PL_MIN = '-16 -16 -24';
vector PL_MAX = '16 16 45';
vector PL_CROUCH_VIEW_OFS = '0 0 15';
vector PL_CROUCH_MIN = '-16 -16 -24';
vector PL_CROUCH_MAX = '16 16 25';

so the player hitbox is 32x32x69 units. make your model roughtly fit in this box and your fine.

[Flying Steel]

weapon position is control by bones, so those get the right pos if you rig it right.

And so I take it this will also determine where the weapon shots originate from.

Is there a hard limit on how many bones a model can have?

as for sizes:

vector PL_VIEW_OFS = '0 0 35';
vector PL_MIN = '-16 -16 -24';
vector PL_MAX = '16 16 45';
vector PL_CROUCH_VIEW_OFS = '0 0 15';
vector PL_CROUCH_MIN = '-16 -16 -24';
vector PL_CROUCH_MAX = '16 16 25';

so the player hitbox is 32x32x69 units. make your model roughtly fit in this box and your fine.

Ah good, I didn't even remember to ask about the crouch hitbox, thanks.

[Taiyo.uk]

I've restarted work on the "karotep" playermodel, but I've hit a problem while assigning my mesh to the Pyria armature. I have weighted all of the vertices to the bones, but the model becomes distorted - see the images below:

http://www.haosredro.com/nex/img/editbones.png
http://www.haosredro.com/nex/img/objectbones.png

I have tried rolling the offending bones but to no avail. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[Flying Steel]

I've restarted work on the "karotep" playermodel, but I've hit a problem while assigning my mesh to the Pyria armature. I have weighted all of the vertices to the bones, but the model becomes distorted - see the images below:

http://www.haosredro.com/nex/img/editbones.png
http://www.haosredro.com/nex/img/objectbones.png

I have tried rolling the offending bones but to no avail. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Is this the first time you've rigged a model in blender?

Also, it might help to diagnose the problem, if you would post this .blend file itself.