I want to scream!

can someone please delete all of th eworthless MilkShape 3d modeling tutorials on this site and post a real tutorial?

I just spent 3 hours between two tutorials before I realized the tutorials were completely and totally worthless.

Right now I'm trying to figure out the right tutorial for skinning in milkshape, can someone please tell me a good tutorial for that?

I am building a very basic model:

rectangle + skin

It is going to be a piece of road for my project. So basically it will be a building, but no animations, just a rectangle + my custom skin. If someone knows an easy fast way to skin this and import it I'll be very happy ty.

Meanwhile please please delete those top two milkshape 3d tutorials, they are totally bogus.

Edit-- AH HA Now I realized what I did wrong, I wasn't viewing my thing properly lol

ok now I know how to skin just need to know how to import it properly.

Next time I suggest you make sure you were not making any mistakes before calling our tutorials bogus and requesting their deletion ^_-.

http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=55052

is a bogus tutorial.

I was not making any mistakes when using that tutorial. I was making a mistake when I was trying to figure it out on my own without th eaid of the bogus tutorial

This thread has numerous responses to it all calling the tutorial bogus as well, responses which didn't load up on my first attempt to view the tutorial.

The Milkshape 3d tutorials need serious review. I blew three hours between two of them and got nowhere, only through bumbling around on my own did I figure something out.

Milkshape exporting does not seem well implemented, so I am going to write an exporter. If you would like to be a guinea pig, you may. The attached exporter should do everything but animations right. Put the DLL in your milkshape directory.

To set a texture path, click the 'Comment' button for a material and set it to:
Except probably not that particular path. Don't put a space; the parser is currently rather touchy. You can add 'TeamColor' or 'Transparent' on the following line to make it deal with the alpha channel how you want.

To export, go File -> Export -> Warcraft III MDL (beta 1)

Make sure that you have one bone with everything assigned to it. I am going to do some sort of default bone thingy but I'm out of time for today.

Also make sure that you have a material assigned to each group.

No MDL editing should be required.

If you find something wrong, do say.

Todo list: sequences, animation, model bounds, global sequences, camera, geosetanims, export as mdx

OMG tyvm and YES i will be a guinnea pig if it will do any good.

BUT I also suggest that you please work with the people at http://www.chumba.ch/chumbalum-soft/forum/ because if you write a good exporter they will put it on milkshape's official site!:D

I need to put a bone with the model? ok I'll try and figure that out now. I just had a flat box/rectangle for my road :D

Cripes, can I be a guinea pig too?

If you can sort all the animation-related problems that kdub's exporter had, I will rep your @r$e back to the Ming Dynasty!

And it's true, all the Milkshape tutorials on here are useless. They tell you to use the 3ds -> mdx method that never had animations and was always produced sideways, so they're totally useless.

Ok, I worked some more on it.

To do sequences, you have to edit the comment on a the model (as in the comment button when you're on the model tab). Each line goes like "Stand, 2-50, looping" or "Attack, 60-70, nonlooping" or whatever.

It will now add a default bone for unassigned vertices, a default material for materialless groups, and a default sequence for sequenceless models.

Any bug finding would be most helpful.

Been playing around a little with it, and discovered something interesting... Not really sure if this is a problem or not, but if you know what's going on...

I have a model; single geoset. Milkshape's stats tool says 58 vertices.

An export with Magos' brings up a geoset with 144 vertices.

An export with kdub's gets me to 46.

An export with your device says 58; and since Milkshape gives that, I'll assume it's correct. But really, have you any idea where all these vertices are coming or going from?

It has to do with the other kdub's exporter ignoring the shading groups and therefore not dividing vertices based on their different normals.
And I had a rather hard time with rotation animation... I will get back to that on the weekend, though.

Good to hear; rotation is one of the places animations started to go screwey in. Don't know any details, though. Keep up the good work!

I am real sorry guys for my lack of correspondence. I have had some things pop up -- re-editing my novel and dealing with my patent -- so my time's been consumed.

I hope to start back on my project soon and tell you guys what's going on. I am a bad guinnea pig :(

Don't worry about a thing; all I need you here for is backup to encourage Guesst to make this exporter!

Well I still need it I mean, sometimes I have months to waste building a map, other times, I have maybe 3 days in two months. So a finished exporter will not only help me a great deal, but a finished exporter will make the people at chumba/swissquake.net very very very happy. And it will immortalize your (guest's) name in the annals of MILKSHAPING!:D

Here is the latest version. I haven't tested animation much yet, but the simple boxes swinging and bouncing around that I've made seem to work. You don't have to run Zero Joints like you did with the other exporter.

Todo list: animation testing/fixing, global sequences, camera, geosetanims, export as mdx

Even if you don't have to run the zero joints plugin, will it still be able to cope with older models with zero'd joints?