79 replies to this topic

[nickthemenace]

i would guess that either your export settings on the mesh are wrong, or you didnt bind it properly..

[HastyNancingEnt]

so should i try it without autolink? i mean i got the arroow to work and the spear but the body isnt there!

[nickthemenace]

i would autolink it, and then try again.. (so.. yes)

[HastyNancingEnt]

ok...

[Celeglin]

Umm... Is there a way to open up an animation as well as a skin, so you can see the skin animated in RenX? I was just looking at Halbarad's and Dain's skins and was wondering whether those were ingame shots with deleted backgrounds, or screens taken from RenX. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: And for Hasty: This happens to me when I try saving my work as a gmax for a backup after I've linked the bones, export it all, go back to change something from the backup file, then export again. Did you do something like that?

Edited by Celeglin, 05 June 2005 - 12:06 PM.

[ched]

their screenshots are taken with the W3DViewer. its a tool give to you with Renx so you should already have it installed. Start/All Programs/Renegade Tools/W3d Viewer

[Celeglin]

Oh jeez I totally forgot about that thing. Thanks ched.

EDIT: Now I've gotta figure out how to use this thing

Edited by Celeglin, 05 June 2005 - 12:22 PM.

[halbarad]

just open all the models and animations u want and then click on the heierachy tab and watch the animations

i seriously sped up my animation process cos i dont have to add them to the game to look at them

[Celeglin]

You know what's sad though? It took me near on half an hour to figure that out. Animating the model, that is lol.

[Hostile]

Cel, I've spent alot of 1/2 hours finding stuff. That's what is fun...

[HastyNancingEnt]

Nick what settings are used to make a model appear with like a spirit esque appearence. Much like you spirit sauron

[nickthemenace]

i cant remember :( have a look at pabtyf's tutprial on WDump, it tells you all the settings:

Tutorial

Edited by nickthemenace, 09 June 2005 - 08:29 PM.

[HastyNancingEnt]

Ok.

[Celeglin]

Hmm... Whenever I export a model, the bounding box shrinks like nutz. For my heroes, this hasn't been a problem (got the buttons to select them), but I'd like some insight into this before I start doing the units. Could this be fixed by simply making the original bounding box a lot bigger, so it shrinks to a suitable size? Thanks.

[Hostile]

Noticed that also. Nothing I found that helps. So suck it up get over it and just resize your box on export till someone posts otherwise.

[Celeglin]

Does anyone have the export settings for buildings offhand?

[halbarad]

i havent noticed the bounding box shrink, make sure it is in the very middle and has aabox selected and i dont have any problems, unless i forget to add it

[Celeglin]

Thanks, I'll give'r a shot. But the export settings for buildings? What might they be, lol?

[ched]

same as a mesh for a normal unit i guess

[Celeglin]

Okie dokie. And when it asks for a skeleton? In case it varies, here's what I'm doing. I've taken the model of a tree then added the arrow bones from the Gondor Sentry Tower. Would I put the model for the tree or the tower for the skeleton, or something completely different?

EDIT: Does anyone know of a tutorial that involves modelling a building? I could swear I've seen one, but for the life of me I can't find it.

Edited by Celeglin, 28 June 2005 - 01:13 AM.