Maya -> Doom 3

[]-UnderTOW-[]

Can someone just give me a quick run down of how to get an animated model from Maya to Doom 3. Like what you need in the maya scene, what you need in the Def file, what you need to display the model in doom 3, etc. ATM whenever i try exportModel with a def file of just 1 model and 1 anim command, it crashes (and fucks up my desktop, what's more. You know, just like when you have doom 3 windowed and the desktop is super bright). It's a maya 6 model and i'm using the maya 6 importer dll.

[Ishtvan]

Don't know anything about this, but did you check this thread in Docs? http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=1485

[Renzatic]

Corth of Oddity will be able to tell you tomorrow. Unfortunately they're both pusses and actually go to sleep before midnight so you don't have any other choice but to wait.

[oDDity]

Fr extracting the mb to md5 you only need the first section of the def files (like shown in the thread I made which Ishtivan linked)

TO be able to get the mesh into a doom map and cycle it's anims you need to add more to the def file, something like this

 

export hammer { 

options  -sourcedir models/mymodels -destdir models/md5/monsters/hammer

     mesh hammer.mb 
     anim hammer.mb -dest WalkF

}

 

model monster_hammer {
mesh                       models/md5/monsters/hammer/hammer.md5mesh 

anim idle                  models/md5/monsters/hammer/WalkF.md5anim } 



entityDef monster_hammer { 

"inherit" "monster_default" 
"scriptobject" "monster_zombie" 



"model" "monster_hammer" 
"size" "32 32 68"
"use_aas" "aas48" 
"team" "1"
"rank" "0" 
"health" "25"


"damage_zone head" "*upper_back" 
"damage_zone chest" "*mid_back -*upper_back"
"damage_zone left_arm" "*l_shoulderblade" 
"damage_zone right_arm" "*r_shoulderblade"
"damage_zone legs" "*hip origin pelvis" 
"damage_scale head" "2" 
"anim" "idle" 
"mass" "50" 
}

 

As for setting up a proper def file, leave that to coryv. He'll write out the def file he needs to work woth the base_guard AI hes' working on. Just send him the md5's.

[]-UnderTOW-[]

ATM, i just want to be able to export without it crashing.

BTW, does anyone know how to prevent the desktop becoming so overbright in the event D3 crashes?

[Renzatic]

You can do it the simplest way, altering the gamma ingame will alter the gamma in the editor as well.

 

Or you could add r_gamma 1 to the editor command line...I believe 1 is your default desktop settings.

[]-UnderTOW-[]

Ok, i think my copy of Doom was buggered. R_gamma wasn't doing anything and in radiant, there were a ton of error messages. My copy at work seems to run everything fine. So i'll reinstall it when i get home. I'm gonna do an exportModel test with my work copy in a bit...

Edited March 17, 2005 by ]-UnderTOW-[

[]-UnderTOW-[]

Fu-uck

 

oDDity, what version of Maya are you using? My version 6 is 6.0.1. Maybe the version 6 MayaImportx86.dll only works for 6.0

[oDDity]

Yes, 6.0, but I doubt that would make any difference. I can sent you a few .mb files of the guard and my def file to see if you can use those to extract md5s from.

Have you got access to out FTP?

[]-UnderTOW-[]

No, i don't have access. You could email it to me to tbrooks@bluetongue.com

Edited March 17, 2005 by ]-UnderTOW-[

[oDDity]

ok, sent.

[]-UnderTOW-[]

Crashed *sigh*.

I put the MB files in the directories according to the def file, btw.

Edited March 18, 2005 by ]-UnderTOW-[

[oDDity]

Well at least we know its your doom setup then. Is it the patched version? Have you set up the maya environment variables properly? THat can be quite tricky. THe default variable maya sets up on install doesn't work for me, I have to make new ones before doom (and deep exploration ) will recognise it.

I explain that in the maya-doom document thread that's linked above.

[]-UnderTOW-[]

I did the env variable at home, but forgot here. Tried it and it still crashed.

Also, at home when it crashes doom 3 just crashes and no messages come up. At work, i get a maya fatal error and it attempts to save the scene in a temp location in an .ma (i sometimes get this same error whe using maya when it crashes).

BTW, i never had a problem with Deep Exploration and getting it to work with maya files. Had a problem with it trying to get it to work with max files though.

 

Oh yeah, it's version 1.0.1282

Edited March 18, 2005 by ]-UnderTOW-[

[oDDity]

umm..well I do't know then. Some silly qustions - where did you place the mayaimort.dll - in the doom/base folder? What exactly did you type into doomedit for those files I sent - exportmodels ulrich ?

Alos did you set up the destination directory for the md5 files - base/models/md5/guard, I don't know if that's a problem, but it's best to try everything.

Where did you get that mayaexport.dll, was it from the latest verison of the SDK?

Edited March 18, 2005 by oDDity

[]-UnderTOW-[]

the dll's in the base directory.

In the doom 3 console (in the game menu). i typed exportModels urich (well, expor+tab+space+u+tab+enter). Just then i tried the same thing in Radiant. Same crash

the def should've had the destination directory all set up, right? This was in the def: options -sourcedir models/mymodels -destdir models/md5/ulrich. I creaetd a mymodels dir under models, and a ulrich dir under mdoels\md5.

Texture doesn't matter, right?

Edited March 18, 2005 by ]-UnderTOW-[

[oDDity]

NO the texture doesn't matter for this part.

here's the dll I use. You may as well try it, in case yours is corrupt or something.

Clutching at straws now)

I think you may need to try for answewrs at the doom3world forums, since I can't think of anything else that might be the culprit.

MayaImportx86_Maya60.zip

[]-UnderTOW-[]

Same crash. This is getting freaking annoying.

I'll try again when i get home and reinstall doom 3

[oDDity]

Did you sort this error out yet?

[oDDity]

There's another guy on the doom3world forums with exactly the same problem as you. I notcied his doom path was C:/Doom_III/

If your path is anything other than drive letter:/Doom3/ then that could well be the problem.