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[Celeglin]

Sure . If you're using nickthemenace's tutorial ( http://www.artistryg...od/tutorial.htm ), go to this part:

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Next you have to bind all the vertices to bones. This is considered the hard bit, but is more time consuming than hard. Press these buttons in this order:

[insert screenshot here]

Now click anywhere on your RenX scene, preferably far away from your mode, but still in view. The thing you have just made is called a WWSkin.

[insert screenshot here]

Now right click on the scene, and unhide all. Then click ‘Add Bones’ from the menu on the right. (You may have to click on the WWSkin again to make the button come up).

Check the ‘Display Subtree’, and ‘Select Subtree’ buttons. Now from the list, choose all the bones you want use, normally the only ones you don’t want to use are things like ‘BOUNDINGBOX’, ‘WWSkin’ etc.. Click OK.

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This isn't the correct order (or atleast, it doesn't work for me). This is the order I use:

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Next you have to bind all the vertices to bones. This is considered the hard bit, but is more time consuming than hard. Press these buttons in this order:

[inset screenshot here]

Now right click on the scene, and unhide all. Then click ‘Add Bones’ from the menu on the right. (You may have to click on the WWSkin again to make the button come up).

[insert screenshot here]

Check the ‘Display Subtree’, and ‘Select Subtree’ buttons. Now from the list, choose all the bones you want use, normally the only ones you don’t want to use are things like ‘BOUNDINGBOX’, ‘WWSkin’ etc.. Click OK.

Now click anywhere on your RenX scene, preferably far away from your mode, but still in view. The thing you have just made is called a WWSkin.

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Hope that helps!

Edited by Celeglin, 04 July 2005 - 12:29 PM.

[LadyRhiea]

*sniffle*...I wuv you! THANKs so much! Now Rhiea can go kick orc arse! XD OH one more question....what if I have two meshes? like Gandulf's body and Eowyn's head? or that dosen't matter?

[nickthemenace]

you should attach them together first.

[LadyRhiea]

I'm so sorry for making your skin threand almost into a model FAQ threand but one more question, when I bind the mesh to the wwskin, it says cannot bind: would create dependancy loop..so...what to do now?

[nickthemenace]

make a clone of the mesh (Edit >> Clone), and then delete the original. Then, bind the skin to the clone.

[LadyRhiea]

Thank you all so much! Now i'm just adding it to the asset! ^^ Thanks sooo much! eh...sorry! now I don't know what to do again ^^: I'm in the asset builder, I just dragged my Rhiea Skin and model into the window, then....what?

Edited by LadyRhiea, 04 July 2005 - 05:04 PM.

[nickthemenace]

Plase use PM's for that kind of thing Haldir, it wasnt needed to post in this thread. To answer your queston rhiea, you just click save, save it as something like newasset.dat, then when its finished, delete your original asset.dat (or back it up), and then rename your one to asset.dat, and put it where the old one was.. (sorry if that didnt make much sense)

[Celeglin]

Well, I figured this thread could actually use some new models/skins, so here we are:



I've created new fx for Arwen's Loudwater Fury attack. The added fx would be the fully animated running horse you're seeing about. This was my first attempt at wDump stuff and I must say I like it. It led me to making this:





It's a Nightmare (Hell Horse, if you will). I'm currently offering it to the Elementis mod, but if they decline, I'm open to letting someone else have it.

Edited by Celeglin, 26 July 2005 - 11:20 PM.

[halbarad]

sweeeeet

[LadyRhiea]

I ish agree with halbarad, it is really sweet! But there' just one thing....I think the horse needs to be a little more backwards...so it's in with the affect!

[Celeglin]

Took me a few minutes to figure what on earth you were talking about lol. And what I have there is what I was going for, but I'll try orienting the water fx closer to the front of the horse and see how it works (it'll probably look better, now that I'm thinking about it).

[Celeglin]

Sorry to double post, but I feel like bumping.

I've posted this in... I think 4 other places, so I may as well post it here. Here's my Glorfindel:



Check out The Elven Alliance Homepage for more information on this new hero.

Edited by Celeglin, 26 July 2005 - 11:21 PM.

[halbarad]

very cool

[LadyRhiea]

All your models and skins look soooooo cool! ^^ Great job! I can't wait until your mod is released!

[whopper]

Looks very nice

Tho if you didn't say it was glorfindel I would say that it was thranduil or another mirkwood elf because of the type of green.

[Celeglin]

Looks very nice

Tho if you didn't say it was glorfindel I would say that it was thranduil or another mirkwood elf because of the type of green.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I knoooooooows... lol. I was planning on making him blue and white, but it would have looked way too similar to your Glorfindel, and I couldn't have that. So I ended up using my Thranduil concept. Ah well, I still like it .

[OoN|Valandil]

Are you gonna make a Thranduil though??

[Celeglin]

Are you gonna make a Thranduil though??

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Possibly for a later version. As it stands right now, the Elves already have 7 heroes (8, if you count Celeglin). They have plenty of enough for the time being.

Here's a reskin on Celeglin:



This will either be his light armour (at level 4, he'll switch to hero armour (ala, the old skin)) or will just altogether replace the old skin. Haven't decided yet.

Edited by Celeglin, 26 July 2005 - 11:23 PM.

[Celeglin]

A re-reskin of the Galadhrim Warriors (my original ones didn't stand up very well ingame):



The first is in light armour, and the second in heavy armour.

Edited by Celeglin, 26 July 2005 - 11:24 PM.

[Master Windu]

Wow, nice detail on the Galadhrim armor. I love Celeglins new skin too, and the designs on the clothing of your heros is amazing! How did you do that?