Animating Contest #2 (Old posts)

[Pyritie]

I can always extend it if necessary.

 

[DesKaladA]

To Exlpain my outher choice
Ide like a diffrent mesh (if i need to rig it)
or ide like it as a md2 file

 

[Pyritie]

Do you want to try the .gmax file and see if you can somehow use that? Because I don't know what else to do.

 

[DesKaladA]

I cant get gmax to export to mdx
but i can anamate it there

 

[Pyritie]

Dex's exporter script can export to .mdl.

It can also save as .max or .3ds, forget which one. Can blender import from either of those?

 

[DesKaladA]

.3ds yes it imorts nicely
so gmax would be helpfull
the problome i have with dex is the fact it wont export gementry

 

[Pyritie]

Okay here's the .gmax. If someone with 3ds max could change it to a .3ds that would be very helpful.

 

[GhostWolf]

Try using the script here to export as a OBJ.
If you succeeded give me the new file and ill give you the 3ds.

 

[Pyritie]

Done. Tell me if this doesn't work.

 

[GhostWolf]

Omg sorry for late reply, totaly forgot about this thread lol.
Heres the 3ds version.
By the way, nice model

Omg... can't attach 3ds...

Oh ok zipped it like you did.

 

[DesKaladA]

It still has bones?

 

[Pyritie]

Nope. I never added bones in the gmax model because dex's script doesn't export them right.

 

[Pyritie]

Seventeen days left everyone! Better get moving if you haven't already!

 

[DesKaladA]

I need bones to freeken anamate
and your mesh is SOO dirty i cant add them myslef.....

 

[Pyritie]

Dirty? What do you mean by a dirty mesh? As in bad topology?

 

[DesKaladA]

as in too many unnessary trinagles and polies that make it shit to rig

 

[Pyritie]

Well I'm sorry but you're the only person here who uses blender. And if Donut and Chriz can rig it then so can you.

And if there are some really stupid triangles then you can fix them to your will. I know the model needs work. Hell, at the moment I'm going back and fixing a lot on it; the sides are hardly symmetrical and the unwrap is horrendous.

 

[LiOneSS]

I have a problem: i am using 3ds max 7 and when i import the mesh splits into hundrets of geosets...

 

[Pyritie]

Are you importing the .max file or going straight from the .mdx?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I'll try to enter and animate for Coalch.

 

[LiOneSS]

Are you importing the .max file or going straight from the .mdx?

tried both ways. the mesh splits up in thousands of pieces

 

[Pyritie]

Huh. Very strange.

 

[DesKaladA]

Is it ok if i re-uvmap it
if i can then i should be able to defuck your mesh that holdes athousand faces


also

Pyritie, When you die god will show you this and say "Thats why" thats why you will be stuck as my servent in the afterlife.

 

[Pyritie]

Well as long as the wrap is similar to the original, go ahead. I know it sucks; I should've cleaned it up before I started this contest.

That being said, if I went and cleaned up the model and posted it, is everyone okay with that?

 

[DesKaladA]

still it has too many poiles

it crashes every riging algorithim i try on it

 

[Pyritie]

It doesn't have that many... only like 600 or so...

 

[DesKaladA]

Also i"M DOING Pirsir

And i'm stikking with that

 

[DesKaladA]

.........

I really would need a bonded .md2 file to get this to work

also my riggein script (well any rigging script) wont seem to work

they always come to devision by zero killsiwtch

 

[Pyritie]

Well I've never even heard of a .md2 file, so that isn't exactly my problem. I gave you an .mdx and .ms3d and .max, so it's not my fault you're using Blender.

 

[DwarfZealot]

this kind of died didnt it...

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah I know. :/

You going to make anything? You might as well try. If nobody else enters you'll get an easy award icon.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

If you made it lower poly, more basic, but just as effective, that might make it more fun to work with.

 

[Pyritie]

But it's already rigged...

If I posted a cleaned up version, would you use it instead?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I think so. I rigged it, but it has so many darned pieces that it becomes way too tedious. I think the problem is mostly the tail and definitely the wings. If the wings aren't even going to be used for flight then they could be something as basic as a plane.

 

[Pyritie]

Okay fine. I'll fix up the model and hope gmax exports it right this time.

Then I'll clean out this thread and start the contest again. Sound like a good idea?

 

[DesKaladA]

Ya ubt i need a MD2

 

[Pyritie]

Okay I cleaned and closed the other thread. As of now, this contest is closed. Once I fix up the model so it is much easier to work with, then we can start over from the beginning.

Here's a WIP of the fixed model. I split it in half because the model before was not symmetrical and very messy, especially on the unwrap.

As you can see I aligned the wing verts nicely and started working on the back leg. The front leg will look the same except it will have a thumb too. (which you can use for animating if you want, especially if you're doing a caster)

Also, I will be adding Pyritie and Lirch up to the models available for animating, as Donut says he can't finish them due to tons of homework.

 

[DesKaladA]

and plese i need a md2

or a rigged .3ds

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah yeah. If you want your md2, find a program that'll take .obj, .3ds, or .ms3d and convert it to your md2.

 

[Pyritie]

Here's the unwrap so far.

I know the leg part is incredibly messy. It was far worse before though, trust me...

(Argh I wish the images weren't auto-resized...)

 

[Kwaliti]

Anyway... the neck is terrible, you can't bend it. Fix it pl0x.

 

[Pyritie]

What, the neck on the model?

 

[Kwaliti]

Yeah .

 

[Pyritie]

What do you mean by you can't bend it...? It's hard to rig? Or...?

 

[Kwaliti]

Well, your rig was catastrophic, when assigning joints, blease add one ring of vertices to each joint, thank you for watching our programme, and good night.


<PSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHT>

 

[Pyritie]

Okay I think the model is good. Any tips?

EDIT: Okay I made the tail have 6 sides instead of 8. Still need to refix the uvw now because whenever I touch it then gmax erases any uvw changes you've made :/

 

[Pyritie]

Ignore that last one. What about this one?

• Elenai - looks good
• DesKaladA - needs less polies
• Kofi_Banan - fix the unwrap on the head and neck
• SuPa- - it's okay
• Mechanical Man - yeah, looks okay, you can animate it
• Donut3.5 - good that you fixed the wings and feet, just remove the random vertices in the middle of the chest
• Ghostwolf - too squarish, but don't think it should be very hard to animate

 

[Pyritie]

Any other responses? I edited the above post.

 

[Pyritie]

Unless anyone posts any objections until then, in 24 hours (or so) I'll start this contest again.

 

[Pyritie]

Okay. The contest has been restarted.