I'm making a crossbow. It sucessfully is improted into nex (player model, ground model, HUD, the hud is textured too ( the pmodel and ground model have a texture bug where they want to display textures/Material.tga (or png, or whatever ) as their texture... due to buggy exporter...)

Anyway in attempting to animate the firing sequence of the crossbow in the HUD I made 2 blend files and converted them both to smd files. One file is crossbow_cocked.smd and the other is crossbow_fired.smd.

I copy crossbow_fired.smd to fire.smd and fire2.smd
I copy crossbow_cocked.smd to the rest of the smd and run zmodel config.txt (yes it's a linux binary, I compiled zmodel from source).

~/.blender/scripts/nexwe$ ls
config.txt fire.smd idle.smd ref.smd source winexes zymexport.bat
fire2.smd gmon.out modtool.exe run.smd temp.smd zmodel.exe

The problem is when I'm firing, it never shows an animation, the crossbow is always cocked.

I have done wrong.
Show me the path.

if you don't mind posting the smd's and stating which blender import script u used (looks like the one i put together) then i maybe can be more help.

I have nowhere to put them and I don't think that would help. I need to know the proper procedure for animating nexuiz weapons using blender. I am using that nexuiz weapon exporter script bundle that was mentioned in the forum. Once the crossbow is done it will be under the GPL (well it allready is actually just not released yet as it doesn't work).

A few quick things:
1. The material name is used as the filename for the texture. Rename your material to crossbow.tga or something like that.
2. EVERYTHING in that exporter is hard coded. It was not designed to create custom animations. It's just a couple exporters i sewed together to get models in easily. The whole mesh is weighted to 'bone01' at the origin.

How do I rename a material?

Also how do I animate the crossbow in blender, this is what I really need to know.
What are the steps. I tried making 2 smds, one with the bowstring cocked, one with it forward. The 2nd never showed when firing even though it was copied to fire.smd and fire2.smd.

Does anyone else know anything about animating weapons in blender?

I renamed the material. I animated in blender now and the effect is: still no animation but when I export and bring the weapon in game, though the hud weapon is fine, the ground and player weapon is TINY!

Can anyone help me with this? I am using blender. Please help.
Don't people make weapons for this game?

I used this tutorial:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D ... _Animation

Here is the crossbow, including the SMDs, blenderfiles, texture, etc.
http://md3.bpa.nu:81/other/crossbowstart.pk3

I made it replace the crylink (I like the crylink btw).
Need help animating and after that I will have to code new ammo type etc (bolt).

Please help me.

Without changing the Nexuiz quake C you can't have different meshes for cocked and fired. Since this weapon needs moving parts the weapon exporter script just won't do it. When i get the time i'll rig your crossbow and set up the animations.

For the record, nobody other than the two of us (afaik) are trying to make weapons for nexuiz. I learned python and put that weapon exporter together (by combining and patching other scripts) simply because it became clear that nobody else would do it.
f0rqu3 is still working on a ZYM imoprter/exporter which should make all this a lot easier.

Doc pyton made a lot of nice weapon meshes, have a look in his thread. Or do you mean completely new weapons?

OMG how could I forget Doc Python!!! tZork never revived his cool tMod, which added 2 weapons to nex 1.5, and Team Nexuiz is a team no more
So that's 3 of us making weapons for nexuiz.

Rad: I am making a completely new weapon, the question I am asking is how to animate it.

Ihan: You asked for the smds, here they are. Please help me by telling me how you animate nexuiz weapons. Please. You made the exporter, I assume you know how to do it.
Here is the crossbow, including the SMDs, blenderfiles, texture, etc.
http://md3.bpa.nu:81/other/crossbowstart.pk3

Well, perhaps my girlfriend can have a look at this. She's the de-facto project leader by now - equal rights and all. Perhaps she knows someone who can do anims.

PM doc-python. He got that machine gun of his animated. And post your findings up here.

SavageX wrote:Well, perhaps my girlfriend can have a look at this. She's the de-facto project leader by now - equal rights and all. Perhaps she knows someone who can do anims.

heh heh...

(Deleted the image) Hey! This means PIGS, not PICS. Remove your image posts and don't lead this thread off topic!

Doc-Python doesn't use blender.
I guess the other above posts means you people won't be helping me.
Fine.

Where is this "great community" I keep hearing about?
Posting random images is great? (You can't even draw your own and must rip off copyrights stuff?)

Ishan: the smds you requested are here: http://md3.bpa.nu:81/other/crossbowstart.pk3
Please download them and take a look.

You're behavior is becoming too familiar... I'd say better to cool down...

Making animated models are hard, and gues what, even the devs haven't find a clear way to figure it out... be patient, you'll maybe get your answere soon. Whatever it will be.

C.Brutail wrote:You're behavior is becoming too familiar... I'd say better to cool down...

Making animated models are hard, and gues what, even the devs haven't find a clear way to figure it out... be patient, you'll maybe get your answere soon. Whatever it will be.

I am confused about the startrek images. I watched startrek when it was on, why are these other posters posting useless images? What is the point?

take_this_cup_of_poison wrote:What is the point?

they feel like acting silly, don't mind them

ihsan wrote:f0rqu3 is still working on a ZYM imoprter/exporter which should make all this a lot easier.

not anymore sorry. check my post
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so smd export works? (I think I can make quick test: import some player zym export smd, create zym with the command line tool )

take_this_cup_of_poison wrote:(...)
Where is this "great community" I keep hearing about?
Posting random images is great? (You can't even draw your own and must rip off copyrights stuff?)
(...)

sorry
but he has a point there...

Blµb wrote:

take_this_cup_of_poison wrote:(...)
Where is this "great community" I keep hearing about?
Posting random images is great? (You can't even draw your own and must rip off copyrights stuff?)
(...)

sorry
but he has a point there...

One cannot possibly have enough unrelated Star Trek stuff and pigs in a thread. Serious work needs serious relaxing

Blµb wrote:sorry
but he has a point there...

Projects that act all corporate all the time loose their feel, that's why I'm still posting on these forums. All open source projects have their in-jokes, mine has an in-joke involving a NDA (Don't ask )

take_this_cup_of_poison wrote:Doc-Python doesn't use blender.
I guess the other above posts means you people won't be helping me.
Fine.

Where is this "great community" I keep hearing about?
Posting random images is great? (You can't even draw your own and must rip off copyrights stuff?)

Ishan: the smds you requested are here: http://md3.bpa.nu:81/other/crossbowstart.pk3
Please download them and take a look.

It's the middle of the week and I do have a job to go to so i may take a while to reply.
Here's what we need to do:

take your bow, create an armature for it.
Rig and animate the bow firing,
export the custom animations with the 'SMD animation exporter' script (untested),
export the MESh with the smd mesh exporter
configure and run zmodel on it to make the zym

I can only get this done during the weekend. Just too busy with real life.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8jmy309ygt2

walking animation is exaggerated but my comp crashed, i didnt saved and i dont wanna start all over again

i fixed model in few spots so its not 100% same mesh

enjoy

Can you please post max file if it still exists?