Animation Convertion

[WispY]

i again!
I wanted to try modeling in Gmax, so i have created a simple model to see how should it look in War3.
So, 3 bones in chain.
1 controls right hand and Cylinder over center + verticles of 2 & 3 bones (of course)
2 controls left hand + verticles of 3 bone
3 controls top of the Scaling sylinder
I have created the animation, and in Gmax it looks like (0, 25 and 50 frames)

And when I convert my model to *.mdl or *.mdx or import it to War3... it looks like (screenshots from mdlvis)

When iI try to re-attach the verticles, mdlvis gives an error and does nothing.
What is wrong to my way to attach verticles to bones in Gmax? I have used "Skin" modifier like in the tutorial.

 

[Kwaliti]

What did you use to export it?

 

[WispY]

__DeX_0[1].186m.mcr MaxScript from this Magos tutorial. (Actually it creates the text code for *.mdl file, and I need to save that code in *.mdl, correcting the texture pathes - everything was done good)

 

[Kwaliti]

Use this instead: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...mdl-kit-for-3dsmax-6-to-2010-and-gmax-115767/

Dex can be buggy as hell.

 

[WispY]

I have just tried to
1 create the animation
2 create 3 dummy boxes (for 3 bones)
3 delete Skin Modifier for my meshes
4 add Skin to dummy boxes for each bone
5 (the boxes becomes animated) saved *.mdl
6 open it in mdlvis and delete dummy boxes
7 attach verticles of my meshes to bones (it was impossible in 1 model because of error in mdlvis)
But the result is the same, because Bones are animated not like in Gmax, they are just moving and rotating too far...
Ill try other way to fix the problem now.

 

[Kwaliti]

Wait, why do you delete the dummies in Mdlvis? Magos and Vertex Modifier can do that as well much painlessly. Also I strongly suggest you to use BlinkBoy's NeoDex script in my previous post. Also, can't you attach the vertices to bones in Gmax itself? (Milkshape user here, so I don't know)

 

[WispY]

eemmm, do you mean attaching only several verticles to the bone, but not all the mesh object? Yes, it is possible. The black Cylinder between other gray on my pictures is attached to the bone3 only with it's top verticles.

 

[BlinkBoy]

don't use envelopes, they fuck up everything, you must assign vertices directly. However, Gmax does not jhave a weigth table and it's method is quite difficult to explain.

I would suggest you to attach vertices in MdlVis or Vertex modifier meanwhile. I'm currently working at a tool which will make Skinning in Gmax and 3dsmax A LOT easier.

 

[WispY]

thanks!