The WIP Thread

[Nash]

Sorry, I don't know much else about it. I only use it for OBJ -> MD3 exporting...

[Enjay]

Well, I did a bit of searching and I did it! This was actually about a different format entirely but it worked so I'm guessing it will work with other separate animation/mesh combinations. The procedure is...

Load the animation.
Export it as an rda.
Load the mesh.
Export it as an MD3 but in the advanced options add -loadrda filename.rda

Woohoo!

[NeuralStunner]

So you have your properly animated Imperial mechs now?

[Enjay]

So you have your properly animated Imperial mechs now?

Sorry about the sound volume. Uploading it seems to have increased the sound quite a bit.

I actually kept my own animations for firing and death. Firing because I have changed the behaviour of the mech and my animations tie in with it a bit better. The death because... well the ones from the original game are good but I quite like my one and reworking it, I decided, would be more effort than it is worth. However, now that I know how to do this, it does leave the door open for other models. Whether I get time to do much with them or not is another matter.

[edit] Booo! Noesis crashes when I try to export an animated Stormtrooper MD3. The humanoid animation file is very big and has lots of animations. I suspect that Noesis (or maybe the MD3 format?) simply can't handle it. I guess that means none of the humanoid-based models in Jedi Knight (ie all the really useful ones) will work. I submitted the crash to Noesis anyway. Who knows, it might get fixed some time. [/edit]

[edit2] Well, I'm pretty sure I know why the export for human-based enemies fails. The GLA animation for the humanoid class of characters contains 17,278 frames! Most of them are utterly useless too - things like animations of a guy sitting in a cockpit, polishing glasses at a bar etc. Basically, they put every animation required by every human-shaped character in the entire game into one giant animation file. It makes sense from their PoV. There is only one animation file and every human-shaped enemy refrences it. However, it really doesn't help me. I've tried to find some way of editing the useless frames out of the GLA but I can't find a suitable way of doing this. All I really want are standing, walking, firing, pain and dying frames but I can't get at them. [/edit2]

[edit3] Well, I've tried and I've got a an ATST, a man sized mech suit, a pterodactyl-like thing, a gonk droid, an interrogator droid, the big mech thing, a smaller roller-mech thing, a three legged lizard-thing, a probe droid, C3P0, R2D2, R5D2, and a round sentry droid thing. However, I cannot get any stormtroopers, imperial officers, jedi knights, rodians, grans, jedi, etc etc. Basically, anything with a human shape and full animation can be converted. Without them, there is little point of making much in the way of plans for the models. All those are from Jedi Outcast. I'll look in Jedi Academy if I can find my disc but I believe the system is much the same there too. [/edit3]

[Ænima]

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...... FUCK.

Anyone know how to fix this? Like, how to select and drag one whole part of a voxel at a time?

In the slice editor, i can apparently select a square area but it doesn't seem to do anything because I can't copy it or paste it once I select it.

[XutaWoo]

Well that's certainly a different kind of 3D hovertank.

[Nash]

Enjay - The MD3 spec has an animation frame limit of 1024 frames (source) so maybe that's why it's not working.

Aenima: This probably won't help but Paint 3D has 3-d selection boxes. It's not free but it's only $20. It's good to have a modern voxel editor in addition to SLAB6.

[Jimmy]

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[LilWhiteMouse]

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...... cake.

Tank War?

Still a WIP. The almost EGA effect is not intentional.

[Dancso]

Been recently working on my own 3D cube-based map editor for a puzzle game I plan on doing.

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Ambient occlusion is eating up all the fps :'(

[Nash]

What are you writing that in, Dancso?

[Ryan Cordell]

Still four or so more frames to go. WIP. FML.

[Nash]

That's a pretty nice cleanup! Perhaps you can go over the blurry details on the gun body and reconstruct a high clarity version.

[Dancso]

What are you writing that in, Dancso?

Java. There's a neat free engine i use called JMonkey with a lot of built-in features.

[Siggi]

In the wee hours of this morning I decided to code up a ray tracer. This is what I've got so far.

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