HELP: Model Headless...

[FireFish]

HELP

Just finished my first model- a quick head swap of a bandit onto a footman. Looked nice in the model editor, until I reopened it and it the textures weren't loading- then I imported it to WE and it's missing the new head I just gave it... and worse I found it a minute later floating arbitrarily... Maybe I put the head on wrong or it has something to do with textures?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Is the head properly rigged to Bone_Head?

 

[Deolrin]

I'm not entirely certain, it's been quite a while since I dealt with that problem, but it could be because the bone it's attached to or its parent is actually a "Helper". To fix it, open your .MDL file in Notepad, do CTRL + F and search for "Helper ", with the spacebar after it. Then, do "Find and Replace" and replace "Helper " with "Bone ".

 

[FireFish]

Is the head properly rigged to Bone_Head?

Yeah, when I imported it, I set it to bone head. Is there something I'm missing?

 

[FireFish]

I'm not entirely certain, it's been quite a while since I dealt with that problem, but it could be because the bone it's attached to or its parent is actually a "Helper". To fix it, open your .MDL file in Notepad, do CTRL + F and search for "Helper ", with the spacebar after it. Then, do "Find and Replace" and replace "Helper " with "Bone ".

The file is a .mdx- do i need to convert it? Did what you said anyways though and I couldn't find helper. When I imported the bandit head tho, I set it to bone head.

 

[Stefan.K]

You attached it to a wrong bone. Attach the head geoset to a "box02" bone, not the head one.

 

[MN Lahmar]

I bet you used War3 Model Editor. Use Mdlvis.
I recommend that you watch some tutorials on Youtube to help you get the wheel rolling.

 

[Deolrin]

Converting is important, yes.

 

[FireFish]

I bet you used War3 Model Editor. Use Mdlvis.
I recommend that you watch some tutorials on Youtube to help you get the wheel rolling.

I did. Nice, I'll try that- thanks!!

 

[FireFish]

You attached it to a wrong bone. Attach the head geoset to a "box02" bone, not the head one.

THANKS!! The head is now fixed and properly attached.

Btw, your models are awesome!! I'm using many in my map- wish there were more, keep up the good work.

FIXED

 

[FireFish]

FIXED

Bonehead glitches sometimes- use box02 instead

 

[Fang]

It probably because of the animation. Check it with MDLvis

 

[Deolrin]

As you can see, "bone_head" is a Helper (identified by the question mark icon):
http://prntscr.com/7ob045
In the future, do not attach mesh to Helpers, or convert them, to avoid this problem.