Comments on: In the summertime http://www.wunderboy.org/blog/220 - game modding for gentle folk Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hiro protagonist http://www.wunderboy.org/blog/220/comment-page-1#comment-762 hiro protagonist Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:53:12 +0000 http://www.wunderboy.org/?p=220#comment-762 So by saying it will 'import bones' does that mean that it will create a proper biped skeleton for the imported models? If so this is a MAJOR improvement over the current smd import plugins that are available - and kudo's to you for that! Can't wait until you get it released. One other minor note about Mesh importing - the current importer 'works' in theory, but the resulting mesh doesn't end up properly welded - it's just a bunch of seperate polygon's - so things like smoothing & the like end up screwed up after import. Sure it's a one-button thing to weld the verts, but this can change the model potentially (unless you are very careful with how accurate you want the weld to be) - it would be much better to simply weld them during the import (in an ideal situation). Anyways, like I said before - can't wait to see the updated importer! Thanx in advance for your hard work. So by saying it will ‘import bones’ does that mean that it will create a proper biped skeleton for the imported models? If so this is a MAJOR improvement over the current smd import plugins that are available – and kudo’s to you for that! Can’t wait until you get it released.

One other minor note about Mesh importing – the current importer ‘works’ in theory, but the resulting mesh doesn’t end up properly welded – it’s just a bunch of seperate polygon’s – so things like smoothing & the like end up screwed up after import. Sure it’s a one-button thing to weld the verts, but this can change the model potentially (unless you are very careful with how accurate you want the weld to be) – it would be much better to simply weld them during the import (in an ideal situation).

Anyways, like I said before – can’t wait to see the updated importer! Thanx in advance for your hard work.

]]> By: Jed http://www.wunderboy.org/blog/220/comment-page-1#comment-761 Jed Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:03:52 +0000 http://www.wunderboy.org/?p=220#comment-761 Well for bones mirroring is easy if you use the bones tool and it's built in mirror function. Dummies are a little more tricky. However, when you export your animation you really should *only* export the dummies/bones that make up the skeleton and not everything in the rig which a lot of people do. So that said you can mirror any IK stuff or bone controllers if you like, just don't mirror bones/dummies with the normal mirror tool. Well for bones mirroring is easy if you use the bones tool and it’s built in mirror function. Dummies are a little more tricky. However, when you export your animation you really should *only* export the dummies/bones that make up the skeleton and not everything in the rig which a lot of people do.

So that said you can mirror any IK stuff or bone controllers if you like, just don’t mirror bones/dummies with the normal mirror tool.

]]> By: jlewis http://www.wunderboy.org/blog/220/comment-page-1#comment-760 jlewis Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:17:09 +0000 http://www.wunderboy.org/?p=220#comment-760 mirroring bones in max is a huge pain and seems to mess things up most of the time. what do you suggest i do to make a symmetrical rig? mirroring bones in max is a huge pain and seems to mess things up most of the time. what do you suggest i do to make a symmetrical rig?

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