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[Icarus]

Oops. I was using the wrong nex image:

[ihsan]

Converting pyria into a character for a mod i want to make. She'll be called Divinity.
Only half done but the way i'm working i always have a working in-game model.
Blender and Photoshop only (sorry gimp, i'm just faster on photoshop).

[torus]

New camping rifle model:

[SavageX]

Converting pyria into a character for a mod i want to make. She'll be called Divinity.
Only half done but the way i'm working i always have a working in-game model.
Blender and Photoshop only (sorry gimp, i'm just faster on photoshop).

This is pretty awesome.

Can you elaborate how the Blender workflow works? I thought the model sources were all 3DS... and apparently there is a perfectly working export for SMD in Blender now?

[fabz0r]

a map im slowly working on

100% made in netradiant on linux

http://www.fabianrosten.com/tachyon/wip/lift.jpg

[ihsan]

Converting pyria into a character for a mod i want to make. She'll be called Divinity.
Only half done but the way i'm working i always have a working in-game model.
Blender and Photoshop only (sorry gimp, i'm just faster on photoshop).

This is pretty awesome.

Can you elaborate how the Blender workflow works? I thought the model sources were all 3DS... and apparently there is a perfectly working export for SMD in Blender now?

The blender exporter works just fine for static meshes. This was imported from the SMD sources. The blender SMD import has a bug. The bones seem to roll arbitrarily during import so i fixed that manually. There is a perfectly working ZYM import which shouldn't have that problem and loads all animations into the NLA editor. It's a great way to keep everything in one file. Hopefully someone will complete the matching ZYM export. Blender SMD animation export seems to be pra-alpha but functional.

To answer your question, I used the SMD sources so the workflow is straightforward actually; export mesh.smd and run zmodel on it. When I need to add my melee and spell casting animations i'll just export more animation SMD's and re-run zmodel.

P.S.

New camping rifle model:

[SavageX]

Thanks for elaborating.

Actually what I'd love to have would be all the model sources in a format for a free modelling app - in this case as Blender file. 3Ds is just pretty expensive. But given the import seems to be a bit screwed up I guess that would be pretty much work.

[C.Brutail]

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SavageX ... texture blending in your png to terrain app?
/ON

[ihsan]

Thanks for elaborating.

Actually what I'd love to have would be all the model sources in a format for a free modelling app - in this case as Blender file. 3Ds is just pretty expensive. But given the import seems to be a bit screwed up I guess that would be pretty much work.

Before we get too far off topic let me almost solve that problem. Use the import script from here: http://alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2559 on any ZYM and you get Mesh, Armature, UVs and Animations imported into the blender file nicely. What you lose are the frame rate and looping settings.

[C.Brutail]