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[fireside]

I was wondering if anyone is using Blender for geometry export currently.  There's a tutorial in the Wiki that says the exporter is only good for 2.40 and Blender is up to 2.45.  I could download an older version or try some other things, just wondering if anyone has experience with this and Blender.  I'm basically just getting started with the 2.5d stuff and want to get up and running as quickly as possible.

For starters I just want to export cameras and lights and do the floor the 2d way.

[fireside]

I downloaded Blender 2.40 and tried an export but there is no character in the scene and no script errors.  I loaded actor3d.  Anyone with experience in this?  I clicked on the 3d tab and loaded the 3ds file.  I also can't position the 3d actor, it's invisible.

[Nihil]

It's been a long while since I used it, but back then there was an issue with scaling - the character had to be scaled down a lot if I remember correctly, otherwise it was so huge that it was outside the camera. I think we had to set the actor-scale down to 2 or 3 (?) to have it visible in scene.

[fireside]

I tried scaling to 2 or 3 but it's still not visible.  Should it be visible when you click actor in the scene editor and position it?  It's not visible that way either. 

[fireside]

I set the near clip to 1 and the far to 10 and now there's a little character there but she doesn't walk when I click the mouse anywhere.  I just exported a floor, camera and light, is there something else needed?  This is frustrating because I have no way of checking the 3ds file since it isn't standard for Blender.

[fireside]

I think the export is working.  I put a cube in there to block and it shows up in the scene when display is clicked, but she doesn't move when I click the mouse.

[Nihil]

Maybe you have to insert some waypoints as well? Sorry, haven't worked with 3d characters for ages, I forgot almost everything about them.

[fireside]

I did.  They don't show up when I click the button, though.  I can only see the box I used for a block.

[metamorphium]

are you trying the export python script from this site or the native blender export (which doesn't work for WME)?

[fireside]

I'm trying the one from the tutorial on the Wiki.  Apparently it doesn't work anymore and there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

[fireside]

Does anyone know of a free solution for doing 3ds geometry?  I can't get Blender export to work.

[fireside]

Never mind, I found out what I was doing wrong.  The tutorial on the wiki says to name the floor floor_name, but it's supposed to be walk_name.

[fireside]

Now I'm getting some kind of weird normal problem.  I've tried resetting normals to the outside before exporting but nothing seems to work.  I wasn't getting this problem when I put this character in the 3ddemo, but the lighting seemed like real time where now it doesn't, even though I don't have path override set.  The trinity character has normal problems also.

[Mnemonic]

Try tweaking the clipping plane distances in SceneEdit. It might be the cause of these artifacts.

As for the walk_ vs floor_ thing, it is clearly a mistake. However, you can now couple the 3DS file with a definition file, which tells the engine which name masks represent which parts of the geometry (it's described in the docs), so you could actually make objects named floor_* work as walkplanes

[fireside]

I tried tweaking everything I could think of, but it's still the same.