House Guard

[Springheel]

Corth sent me the textures and the maya file for the HouseGuard. I don't have anything that can open a .mb file...does anyone know what needs to be done to get it in game?

[Domarius]

Um, I think that's a Motion Builder file... could be.

 

oDDity put Motion Builder on the server... I can't remember where.

[sparhawk]

mb could also be the Maya Binary format, so you would need Maya in order to open it.

[Springheel]

Yeah, Corth said it was a maya file. But I don't have Maya, so what should I do with it?

[sparhawk]

1) Install Maya

2) Give it to somebody who has Maya installed and can do something with it.

3) Both of the above.

 

Please enter your choice: _

[Springheel]

Thanks, that was helpful. If you can:

 

1. Give me a copy of Maya, or

 

2. Tell me who has it,

 

then I'll be happy to pick an option.

[Dram]

afaik odd has maya?

[sparhawk]

I don't know who has Maya installed. Corth is obviously no longer with us, and Oddity is also gone for now. I had Maya installed a long time ago, but apparently this would not be of much use for you.

If the model is already triangulated, UV mapped and textured I could try to import it into Blender and get it into Doom 3 this way.

[Springheel]

I know it was already textured, because we had screenshots of it in the editor some time ago. I'm not 100% sure what files Corth sent me though, because he said he had a HD crash and lost some things. All of the textures are here, and I guess the .mb file is the model itself...I don't remember seeing a material or def file though.

 

Anyone else have maya that can take a look at it?

[sparhawk]

I just checked with Blender and it does not have a Maya importer. Maybe a plugin exists, but at least it is not installed by default.

[squill]

i use maya... could take a look at it

[Springheel]

Thanks Squill. I'll send it when I get home.

[Ishtvan]

I'm pretty sure there was no def file, we still have to write that. As for material file I don't know; if it was textured in the editor, I would think there should be one.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

I have maya 7 I think, I have no idea how to use it though. Don't have it installed.

[Springheel]

Ok Squill, I've uploaded the files to the ftp. It's under the /models/ folder, HG.rar

[Ishtvan]

Let me know when the anims are set up in a way that D3 can use, then I can whip up a def file for it.

[squill]

Ok Squill, I've uploaded the files to the ftp. It's under the /models/ folder, HG.rar

 

oki...i'll take a look

[squill]

Opened up in maya 7. It's just the model + full rig. No animations.

 

Most of the textures are there, sword, teeth, tongue, eyes(?) textures are not included. Only the facial bones are bind to the head. The body is not so the skin weights have yet to be painted again.

[Springheel]

Is that something you can handle, Squill? I know very little about modeling.

[New Horizon]

Didn't BT do some work on the skins for the houseguard some time ago? Perhaps they still exist.

[BlackThief]

yes, I send them all to corth, but I've them still on my pc here too.

[squill]

Is that something you can handle, Squill? I know very little about modeling.

 

you mean animating the model?

[Springheel]

Not animating, necessarily, but just sorting out what needs to be done to get him in game.

[squill]

well i think getting it ingame is not difficult if the animations are set.

 

main things are, as far as i see, getting it ready for animation, animate and writing a def/material file for export. Don't know if the others models where done with maya... But getting it out of maya is just simply exporting.

 

is that what you need to know?

[Springheel]

It's possible to get a model in game without being animated, isn't it? I just mean the ability to import it with the editor. Once that's done, then we can pass it to our animators to do something with (once Oddity gets back).