(Solved) Need help repairing a model

[gusanomental]

I've got many game/editor-crashing WoW doodad rips, I'll be eternally grateful if you teach me how to fix them

Sanity Tester report

yakmen_tent_small_01.mdx: 7688 warnings, 1 unused
Sequence 0 "Unnamed"
Not used
Unknown sequence "unnamed"
Zero length
Missing "Stand" sequence
Missing "Death" sequence
Geoset 0
Vertex 0: Attached to vertex group 0 which does not exist
Vertex 1: Attached to vertex group 0 which does not exist
[…]
Vertex 118: Attached to vertex group 0 which does not exist
Vertex 119: Attached to vertex group 0 which does not exist
Number of sequence extents (0) does not match the number of sequences (1)
No bones

 

[Jaccouille]

Can you upload the texture? I'll see if I can fix it, then I'll explain what I did. Since it's a doodad, it doesn't have bones, which is normal, bones are used to make part of a model move, just in case you didn't know, doodads do not move. I believe doodads in wc3 got 1 animation which is named "stand" just so the model appear, in your case it's named "unnamed". Animations are referred as "sequence".

 

[gusanomental]

Thanks for your reply. I attached the missing textures, take your time.

 

[Hermit]

The model works fine. The sanity tester doesn't report any errors (warnings can usually be ignored). Maybe you just didn't see it because it's roughly 20 times smaller than it should be.

 

[gusanomental]

I can't edit it and I get a 'Model damaged. Report to author' warning while using Mdlvis.
I get 'Unknown error occurred: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0' trying to open it in the MatrixEater.

What should I do?

 

[Hermit]

I can't edit it and I get a 'Model damaged. Report to author' warning while using Mdlvis.
I get 'Unknown error occurred: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0' trying to open it in the MatrixEater.

What should I do?

Models without any nodes work in game, but since they are extremely rare (freezing breath target is the only one that I know of), model editors might not support them.

Export every geoset with Magos (geoset manager > right click > export); then delete them (right click > remove); create a new bone (node manager > right click > create bone); import the geosets you exported (geoset manager > right click > import); select the bone you created from the drop-down list to attach the geoset(s) to it; set up the materials once again (geoset manager > double click the geoset and change the Material ID), just make sure to choose the correct material for each geoset; save the model and you're done.

I also recommend you scale the model up, rename the unnamed sequence to stand and calculate the model's extents (edit > calculate extents).

 

[gusanomental]

Thanks a bunch, I got it to work now (as a footnote, I had to convert it to mdl first). Just one more question to be sure, although I believe the answer is NO: is it possible to reattach those buggy geosets to a new bone instead of painfully deleting and importing them one by one?

 

[Hermit]

is it possible to reattach those buggy geosets to a new bone instead of painfully deleting and importing them one by one?

There is a way to do it with text editing (mdl files can be opened with Notepad), but I'm not sure how user-friendly it is.