SMD export script - what is wrong with this one?

[divVerent]

After a discussing in a Blender IRC channel, we found this:

http://www.moddb.com/forum/thread/blend ... t-115cript

What happens if you use that to make smds to run zmodel on? Does it actually work? If yes, why has nobody noticed it yet? If not, why do I not find "hl2export" in the forum search?

[Shoe]

My memory might not be completely accurate but I'm thinking it was discussed at a time and somehow the HL2 .smds were different so it wouldn't work. It might've even been discussed on the old board. I might be wrong though.

[Morphed]

hl2 smds are working fine with .zym compiler, you just wont get vertex weights they will be equalized to 0 or 1. And please try with own model,skeleton and animations, dont use nexuiz ones for a test, becaues zym compiler is very picky about bones numbers and quantity but exporters treat it lightly. No need for sophisitcated model, just cyliner with 2 bones and as animation rotate 1 bone, if you will use such model as player model. with only 1 animation, it will be played in loop

[divVerent]

So in other words, this path is working just fine (as zym has no vertex weights)?

[divVerent]

The aforementioned SMD exporter had a bug - it always wrote 0 as parent bone, which is wrong.

http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~r ... _export.py should fix it. Can any Blender user test it?

[Alien]

Zuriastrad was always asking that somebody fixed this script. He would be very happy.

[divVerent]

Script somewhat working now:



Exported just fine, except that the head is missing. It probably is a separate object in the .blend, which probably should be avoidable by the modeler.

[divVerent]

Also, fixed a last bug in it. The script for some reason (weird original author) scaled everything up by factor 40, fixed that.

[divVerent]

http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~r ... ltimesh.py

This version can work with more than one mesh selected. Please test!

[ai]

I have tried this script and it seems to work. But the zymscript that is created doesn't have all the information. It's not a big problem really, you just take the 'config-zym' from a player model and change that with the new information you got from the zymscript, mainly just this information:

mesh static.smd
scene anim_DefaultAction.smd fps 25.000000

The other things:

# perhaps: origin X Y Z
# perhaps: rotate A
# perhaps: scale S

Is not to be copied over of course. Can this be affected from Blender or will these always be the case? I once tried to take away these I believe or change them to something and my model turned out TIIIINY little dot ingame. It was fun, I sent morfar the model and we played each other on Aggressor, shooting invisible players, fun