Hi everyone. I am a rank amature at this but for fun I decided to make my own ship. because I suck at this I haven't learned to use blender. so I built my model in Gmax and exported as md3 then used Quick 3d professional to convert to a .cob file and imported that into blender and exported as an .obj...I know it would have been eaiser to learn blender but I am impatient. so anyway heres my problem
1. i converted the .obj file to bfxm but it doesn't work in game. although I have had other models (much more basic ones) work so I'm not sure what the problem is.
2. I have no idea hoe to UV map or apply texture maps is there an easy way to do this?
just for kicks I attached a pic of the model[/img]
Help with Ship Modeling
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- Insys Pilot
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Help with Ship Modeling
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Concerning "it doesn't work ingame", what's the error? Is the ship invisible? Consider posting the bfxm and stderr/stdout so I can take my try implementing it?
Concerning texturing, you most likely should post your question towards chuck_starchaser, he models quite a lot and might point you towards the tools which are used best, among with some tips to use it.
Concerning texturing, you most likely should post your question towards chuck_starchaser, he models quite a lot and might point you towards the tools which are used best, among with some tips to use it.
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[quote="Dilloh"]Concerning "it doesn't work ingame", what's the error? Is the ship invisible? Consider posting the bfxm and stderr/stdout so I can take my try implementing it?
ok so I swaped my bfxm in for the demon.bfxm file to test it, and when I start PR the splash screen comes up and the game crashes when it tries to load the demon. also the bfxm file is too big to post here its like 3.7MB! could that be the problem?
ok so I swaped my bfxm in for the demon.bfxm file to test it, and when I start PR the splash screen comes up and the game crashes when it tries to load the demon. also the bfxm file is too big to post here its like 3.7MB! could that be the problem?
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Looks like the spiral there is a poly killer. Could it be an invalid export? And how much polies does Blender register?
I can teach you how to apply texture maps, but UV mapping will be tough to explain. See http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/HowTo:Unwrap
There's enough information for start, after you have read the things you need to avoid, see the tutorial on advanced LCSM unwrapping in Blender. The terminology is a bit outdated there, if you're using 2.42 or 2.43, though.
I can teach you how to apply texture maps, but UV mapping will be tough to explain. See http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/HowTo:Unwrap
There's enough information for start, after you have read the things you need to avoid, see the tutorial on advanced LCSM unwrapping in Blender. The terminology is a bit outdated there, if you're using 2.42 or 2.43, though.
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