Modding Help?

[Darhagonable]

now I know why the cell gets invisible ingame...

if the cl_vertebra do not have *modelCapabilitySpine">1<* the cell gets invisible but if I add it the whole body get sold if you try to change any of the joints.

[Darhagonable]

how do limbs work?

I want to create a new limb that is really smooth, clean and no curves.

[Darhagonable]

Progress

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=119s_UvuFhQ[/youtube]

[rob55rod]

Progress

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=119s_UvuFhQ[/youtube]

Looking good ^-^

...and now I'm curious as to whether or not the limb repositioning behaviour could be stabilized at all... .-.

[Darhagonable]

...and now I'm curious as to whether or not the limb repositioning behaviour could be stabilized at all... .-.

I don't know... it do not seam like it... im my thoughts it was possible to make the game view the limbs as two diferent types based of where they are... if they are in the middle it would be a vertebra and if not it would be a simple limb conected to the vertebra. but it is not possible D:
my dreams allways is to wild and allways makes me disappointed D:

(sry for late respons!)

[Darhagonable]

how do I change the vertebra model?
it do not seam to be just to change the .RW4 file in the ce_vertebra.rw4

[rob55rod]

how do I change the vertebra model?
it do not seam to be just to change the .RW4 file in the ce_vertebra.rw4

In the editor_setup~ file, there's a property called "editorVertebraModel". That tells you the name of the vertebra part. Just locate that part and change its modelMeshLOD0 to your desired model.

[Darhagonable]

well now the vertebra is invisible

[rob55rod]

well now the vertebra is invisible

You have to include a baked texture in the model, which you need the SporeModder blender addon to do. How convenient that it was just released the other day

[Darhagonable]

well now the vertebra is invisible

You have to include a baked texture in the model, which you need the SporeModder blender addon to do. How convenient that it was just released the other day

something seams to be a bit wierd here... it seams to export 0 kb files. one time it worked but it is just black plains and thet file is 8 kb.

how do I make baked textures to the model?

[rob55rod]

well now the vertebra is invisible

You have to include a baked texture in the model, which you need the SporeModder blender addon to do. How convenient that it was just released the other day

something seams to be a bit wierd here... it seams to export 0 kb files. one time it worked but it is just black plains and thet file is 8 kb.

how do I make baked textures to the model?

Go to the material pane, and scroll to the bottom. You'll find a rw4 material settings panel. There should be a path to a texture. Just locate your texture there (must be DDS DXT5-compressed)!

[Darhagonable]

I will try that in two days...

[Darhagonable]

I don't seem to get it...

I am in the RenderWare4 Material Config.
Material type: Skinpaint part (or sound I set it to No material?)
Color: White
Diffuse texture: //texture.dds
Material alpha: Opaque

after that I export it as .rw4 and put it in my mod and it is invisible ingame

[rob55rod]

I don't seem to get it...

I am in the RenderWare4 Material Config.
Material type: Skinpaint part (or sound I set it to No material?)
Color: White
Diffuse texture: //texture.dds
Material alpha: Opaque

after that I export it as .rw4 and put it in my mod and it is invisible ingame

You named the texture "texture.dds" . SporeMaster interprets this as a signal that the folder is a texture, so it ignores the model entirely. Use a different name for the texture. I usually use "baketexture.dds".

[emd]

Mind you, since the exporter directly exports to .rw4, there's no need to put the file inside a folder named "whatever.rw4". Just put the .rw4 file directly in the editor_models~ folder.

[Darhagonable]

I don't seem to find the editor_models~ folder...

[Darhagonable]

what I have done in sporemaster:

inside "creature_parts~ > ce_vertebra.prop.xml":
<key name="modelMeshLOD0" groupid="part_models~" instanceid="ce_vertebra_dar" typeid="rw4" />


inside "part_models~ > ce_vertebra_dar":
raw.rw4 (the file that blender exported)

I don't have any gmsh file for it tho...

[rob55rod]

part_models~ , not editor_models~ .
Also you don't need a GMSH.

[Darhagonable]

well I still don't get it to work...
is it anything more I have to do in blender? (more then creating the model and fixing the RenderWare4 Material Config)

[rob55rod]

well I still don't get it to work...
is it anything more I have to do in blender? (more then creating the model and fixing the RenderWare4 Material Config)

Add a skeleton.

Also make sure your model isn't tiny or gigantic and that there are no typos.