Geoset merging tutorial

Humm... Look here for instructions.

Oinkerwinkle, thanks!
This tutorial is really helping me do model edits for my map. Who'd have thought model editing was easier in notepad than in Max.

Thanks for the great tutorial.
Now I won't have to make headless models and attach heads to them by triggers anymore :ggani:

Martinez

lol :ggani: i was gonna use it for knight upgrade thing like normal knight, knight w/ lord garithos stuff, lord garithos but i forgot about bandit lotd :ggani: but i read it anyways, its pretty clear prolly gonna use it later for shield, sword, bow stuff all that. oooooh good idea :D

okay... i have it almost done. so far my footman HAS the bow and quiver, AND THEY EVEN ANIMATE WITH HIM! YAY. but they have no texture. i have the whole material texture thing set up right, but it show up black. i have a feeling it has to do with uvw and how it gets exported. but i may be wrong. were are the uvws on the .mdl anyways? are they the normals or something? oh and 1 more thing, when I am making archer_chunks, i split the bow and quiver into 2 different groups.

The TVertices control the UV mapping. They should be the same as on what you got them from unless you actually tried to edit them. If you upload what you've done then I can be more specific.

well, ill send you but i know the problem anyways. I split up one of the geosets, and i guess that restarted goesets and all... maybe.
ok so last like 3 geosets i think are messed up the verts are, 307, 8, and i think 24. in the original, the 307 and 24 were combined.

i sent it to you... are you going to look at it?

Very nice tut! :D

While merging the Acolyte with Mediv I always get this problem:



The head is always 90 ° wrong - I always get the same result! (BTW: animation is fine but head 90 ° wrong).

Anybody know how to fix it? emote_confused

hmm... i bet the medivh and acolyte models naturaly face 90 degrees off so, before editing the medivh, rotate it 90 degrees to the left. AND SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!

-={tWiStÄr}=-, I can't really help you with just the MDL. I can't just look at it and come up with some diagnosis. Upload all the max files you used and I may be able to help.

Bolthan, -={tWiStÄr}=- is right about what you have to do. Just rotate it in max. Be sure to select the induvidual vertices rather than the whole object, though.

ok, heres the .mdls, and .mdxes's er... ya. i think the prob is that i split a geoset, and they lost their texture. and also, i cant figure out how to transfer the animations from the archer to the footman. I looked at the tutorial, and it didnt help :bgrun:

P.S. THIS IS MY FIRST ZIP/RAR FILE IVE EVER MADE :ggani:

Hmmm, by reading about your problem I would say you didn't put the new geoset in the last place. If the old one was 307, 24 -> the new one must be 307, 24, 8 -> always put it in the last position.

About my problem -> thanks I will try to change the head before putting it in headless geoset! :D

Now it works - used Iron_Ian's monk skin *just for testing*!

huh... first of all, I dont get what ur saying, and second of all, if you mean the order or something, i dont think it really matters....

Hmmm - yeah I mean the order - and it matters. It is much more simple when you always put the new one at the end because also the materials must be in the right order. Else a wrong material_id could be used and then you will see nothing! ;)

Looked in your rar file - nice idea with the geset merging + animation transfer but also a little bit complicated. For myself I would first merge and then do the transfer ...