I think that the main nexuiz's problem are the animations of the player models...so why don't use the animation that i have see in the zymotic video?
This is not a request...only a question.
It will be nice to see a good animations because actually are terrible....and the models on players are too old!
I will thank all the people who are working in this project!

We appear to have nobody who can do such animations.

Many people can do that, but apparently none of them give them away under the terms of the GPL.

The current models and animations were made in 3d studio max. The opensource alternative blender has an exporter which is still beta level (my fault). Player models are not being made simply because the tools aren't out there.
I am working on higher quality player models though. May even get motion captured animation (keep your fingers crossed).

There is a working SMD exporter, I posted it here in some thread. But I got no feedback from any modeler who tried to use it, so apparently it was ignored by everyone. Or it means nobody is willing to work on player models anyway.

There is just no way to IMport it.


Wait, ONE guy actually used the exporter - but he didn't make animations. It was mikeeusa who was able to successfully use my exporter for the camping rifle (although he then did some adjustments in the zmodel txt file, but that could have been done directly in blender by moving/rotating the model too).

I did test that exporter and gave you feedback. Well I think it was this it also created the zyms. It did work fine and all, model got exported, so did the animations. Morphed helped out getting it ingame to test it.

However, as I do not work in Blender but found a way using Maya and dpmodel I admit I have no need use that. I'm not efficient in Blender, but I do hope someone who does could help out.

So we will see anything new in nexuiz 2.5 or no?

Ubuntoz wrote:So we will see anything new in nexuiz 2.5 or no?

Too lazy to read the change log?

There is a very old thread regarding this subject.

Actually to lazy to try the 2.5 beta As this beta means Nexuiz is in feature freeze it contains what 2.5 will look like + some bugs that we hope to find and fix till the release

http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4321

ok thanks i have just read about the feature freeze....maybe for nexuiz 2.6 or 3.0

One thing that might be beneficial is for everyone to use one common bones set for their humanoid models (if you're going to make a dog or a bolder playermodel obviously you can't use it). This way the animations would only have to be made once and new ones could be easily added. I believe some commercial games do it this way (at most they use diff male/female animations... maybe).

divVerent wrote:There is a working SMD exporter, I posted it here in some thread.

Please include that exporter in the SVN files, e.g. .\misc\tools.

I am sure there are some others like me who don't visit these forums unless we are looking for something specific but who do frequently update their local SVN caches and could use additional editing tools like that.

JD wrote:

divVerent wrote:There is a working SMD exporter, I posted it here in some thread.

Please include that exporter in the SVN files, e.g. .\misc\tools.

I am sure there are some others like me who don't visit these forums unless we are looking for something specific but who do frequently update their local SVN caches and could use additional editing tools like that.

I second this whole-heartedly if it is not already done. I plan to use (with original skeletal animations, not sure if that is still an issue) this in the near future and provide feedback.

I saw you posted at least an early version of it in the HOWTO: Make A New Nexuiz Playermodel. sticky. But it should still have a place in SVN, getting skeletally animated content from the only and very good FOSS 3D content creator (Blender) into Nexuiz is a major part of the game's content pipeline.