Blender 2.63a exporting md5anim/mesh files (nightmare mode)

[Goldwell]

I have a .blend file and I downloaded blender 2.63a and I downloaded the MD5 Exporter for Blender 2.63+.

 

When I export the file nothing happens. It doesn't give any errors or anything. To be honest though I don't care about trying to solve the problem because I despise blender but if anyone that is able to export md5anim/mesh files could please let me know what version number of blender they are using and a link to the md5 plugin they are using I will just download that so I can be done with this crap.

 

Thank you in advance!

Edited May 24, 2014 by Goldwell

[Arcturus]

You don't need Blender. You can buy Maya and do animations in it. Doom 3 has a built in importer for Maya's animations.

[Goldwell]

You don't need Blender. You can buy Maya and do animations in it. Doom 3 has a built in importer for Maya's animations.

 

I would use that but sadly the model I was given is a .blend file and therefore only works in Blender. I am trying to scale it up because when the model is inside TDM it is tiny and also has no texture (but I know how to fix that)

 

Unless there is a way to scale models in Dark Radiant? it would be nice but I don't think it's possible.

Edited May 24, 2014 by Goldwell

[nbohr1more]

Unless this information has changed, you can scale models in DR:

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Rescaling,_Resizing,_Models_in_Dark_Radiant

[Goldwell]

Unless this information has changed, you can scale models in DR:

 

http://wiki.thedarkm...in_Dark_Radiant

 

Thank you! That seems to work but now when I look at the shark from certain angles it just disappears..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMWK3LusmmY

Edited May 24, 2014 by Goldwell

[Sotha]

Yep, that disappearance is because of bad md5 exporter. Try

r_showskel 1

or was it com_showskel?

 

Anyways, you will see that the bounding box around the creature is two dimensional, rather than 3 dimensional.

 

To overcome this, you must use a different md5 exporter.

http://sourceforge.n.../?source=navbar

 

io_scene_md5.zip

 

This exporter is what I've been using. The bounding boxes are correct, but the exporter exports unnecessary frames, making it produce larger-than-needed .md5anim files.

 

As always in life: you can have the porsche or the supermodel, but you can't have both.

[Goldwell]

Well thats working better

Yep, that disappearance is because of bad md5 exporter. Try

r_showskel 1

or was it com_showskel?

 

Anyways, you will see that the bounding box around the creature is two dimensional, rather than 3 dimensional.

 

To overcome this, you must use a different md5 exporter.

http://sourceforge.n.../?source=navbar

 

io_scene_md5.zip

 

This exporter is what I've been using. The bounding boxes are correct, but the exporter exports unnecessary frames, making it produce larger-than-needed .md5anim files.

 

As always in life: you can have the porsche or the supermodel, but you can't have both.

 

That's working better but I still get these weird errors. I try to solve the problem but it still doesn't work.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7G7DYsiZVs

[Arcturus]

Select the bone, press 'm', select layer.

 

 

You can manage bone layers visibility here:

 

[Arcturus]

Also, if you have trouble selecting the armature, press 'z' to go to wireframe:

 

 

Select the Armature and check 'X-Ray' so it's always visible:

 

[Goldwell]

Ok that worked great thanks! Any idea what to do with this error message?

 

[Arcturus]

It means that some vertices are not assigned to any bone or are assigned with zero weights. Select the mesh, in edit mode select vertices (or edges, faces) and assign them to selected bones with weights bigger than zero:

 

 

Alternatively, you can paint weights in Weight Paint mode:

 

[Goldwell]

Arcturus you are my hero right now! Thank you so much for your effort and help!!

[Goldwell]

Ok so I took a break and came back to try out what you suggest Arcturus and yes it does fix that problem but now I have another problem trying to export

 

[Arcturus]

Put this file on line and I will take a look at it.

[Goldwell]

Put this file on line and I will take a look at it.

 

I just figured out the problem... and ironically it's a rather stupid solution but hey it works.. Blender MUST be version number 2.66a otherwise it doesn't work. Oh wow I can't believe its finally solved!

 

Everything exported and is working perfectly fine now.

 

Thank you so much for your help!

[Arcturus]

I've never seen that 'integer required' problem. I'm glad it works.

[Goldwell]

Yeah it was really strange but it exports. Sadly the animation took a major hit in quality but look it works im happy still!

 

I might msg you the file if you wanted to check it out of curiosity.

[Arcturus]

Yes, I would like to check it.

[Arcturus]

You sent me version without all of the weights. Once I fixed that I was able to export md5. I didn't see that error. I'm using this exporter with 2.70. I think it's the same one as Sotha posted. So I don't know.

[Goldwell]

You sent me version without all of the weights. Once I fixed that I was able to export md5. I didn't see that error. I'm using this exporter with 2.70. I think it's the same one as Sotha posted. So I don't know.

 

Hm that's really weird as a friend tried the same thing and he got similar errors with 2.7

 

Does the animation still work though? As mine went wonky after that in game

[Arcturus]

I didn't check it in game.

[Goldwell]

I didn't check it in game.

 

PM me the md5anim/mesh files and i'll test it out if you wouldn't mind.