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?

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

As the exporter worked for me, what is missing in the zymscript? for me it does write the "mesh" and the "scene" lines.

As for origin, rotate, scale: this should not really be necessary in the exporter, as you should be able to apply a shift, a rotation, or a scale in Blender too.

If you were referring to the fps and the "noloop" info, you can name your actions so it can find out these values (and also order them the right way).

I made a list of all action names to use:
http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopi ... 8610#48610

Only to report that the latest script's release, hl2_smd_mesh_export-multimesh.py, appears to solve the "Non-ASCII character '\xfc'" error.
Not tested a complete exportation in Nexuiz but the .smd and .zym files have been created.
Thanks.

(Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Blender v2.48a, Python 2.5.2.)

divVerent wrote:I made a list of all action names to use:
http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopi ... 8610#48610

That link is to your current post not to the list of action names. Where is the list?

Also the SMD export script at http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~r ... ltimesh.py
should be added to the SVN files so developers can easily find it without having to come to the forums and hunt through them.