Good stuff, thanks.

I'll likely do another release soon - there's a couple other imporovements I'm thinking about first though.

Cheers

cbx

I've released a new version, 1.5. See the uppermost post for download and release information.

Cheers,

cbx

I know next to nothing about Blender, but I think they stopped including mesh_tri2quad from 2.43 on?

Nice script. (I like it when things work : )

I'm having trouble with smoothing groups. Everything I export from Blender ends up completely smooth. (The acsii files are also a lot bigger than those exported from Milkshape (maybe part of the same issue?)).

Is there any way to fix that? (Milkshape's next to useless for any serious models and doesn't seem to export smoothing groups at all).

I'm having to manually combine Milkshape/Blender .txt files at the moment.



(Be cool if someone could write a Milkshape export script for 3DS Max).

I'll have a look at the smoothing groups prob this week if I get a chance.

Don't have time to look at it right now, but something tells me I may have messed that up in a change a while back such that it now only looks at vertex normals and not face normals.

Thanks for the feedback, and give the topic a bump if I forget about it.

cbx

CBX I have a big problem, my machine crashed, so I loosed the belnder 2.42 installer, and your script dont work with the newest version of blender, please aid me thx.

Just goto the blender site and redownload it. They should still have a copy of it to be downloaded.

Ohhh I dont find first, but I never thought that day should keep oldest versions from it, I searched with google on it, and I found it thx Jdog.

I updated to Blender 2.45 last night, and the script works (for me) without problems.
*** EDIT: Not true, sorry, I was only on 2.44 ***
Any more info on the issue would be helpful.


Not sure - I'm not actually using it (it never really worked as documented, in my experience), so if it's any problem, just delete that line.

Fixed.

I've added a new release (1.5.1) - https://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... _id=206650

cbx

Ok, I need some help.

Script works perfectly (in that it doesn’t fail or crash and provides a usable ascii file), but I'm stuck with smoothing groups.

I've certainly hit the limit with Milkshape functionality.

If I'm going to take any Scorched mod (contest : ) to the next level, I must have smoothing groups.

Blender screenshot (half solid/half smooth sphere as exported):


Scorched screenshot (with blenders export having been imported into Milkshape and re-exported to ascii):



Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


Ps:
Cbx, I'm assuming that smoothing groups are supported by Scorched? You're not just being accidentally very clever with your normals are you?

Thanks for the hard work; I know you're not obligated.

They are not supported, the normals used are the normals in the file. If the file has the vertex normals correct then it will look ok in game.

edited to allay confusion

laptops daddy wrote (this posts original contents, not as quote):



gcamp (i guess) wrote:
(must have used special site access or something. possibly distracted? : )

Exactly right. The smooting groups are used to generate the normals.

So long as the exported normals are correct, everthing should be cool. However, I've just checked the Milkshape export format and the smoothing groups do apear to be in the milkshape file as well. So scorched could also change the normals based on these groups (which it currently doesn't do).

So I guess this could be fixed in scorched too.

I'm a bit confused as to where that quote came from, but anyway.....

Whomever the quote was from was exactly right - the smoothing groups *should* be translated to normals at export. The way the export script works now is that it uses vertex normals, always. I thought this was the correct behavior, in that I thought that Blender would adjust the vertex normals if it is using smoothing, and just use the face normals if not using smoothing.
I have never noticed anything wrong, but given the number of comments on this, I'm thinking perhaps my assumption was wrong.
I will check.

Laptop: Any reason you imported into MilkShape after exporting from Blender? (I mostly ask because if there's a reason to do so, I may be able to remove that reason)


I disagree - I don't think Scorched should ever change normals - they should be as the modeller intended them to be.... I might be misunderstanding something here however.

So I guess this could be fixed in scorched too.[/quote]

: ) all very strange phantom quote. let me see if I can edit it…



that make more sense?


really just to demonstrate the milkshape default behaviour. but if you're implying blender can export animated models, do it please?


i think the idea is scorched could potentially use the smoothing group information to extrapolate normals, i guess this is the intended milkshape behaviour. i suppose milkshape should really dictate how its ascii file is structured : )

on the other hand, scorched is way bigger than milkshape (maybe i'm biased). maybe it's time there was an s3d ascii format. (i.e. milkshape ascii, but with smoothing groups translated into normals?)

i had a look at the script. (barely speak a word of python, but)... could you do something like:


?

i think the comments may be all me (except for the one that wasn't), but please don't let that stop you, i'm at least two people

i can't be the only person who needs smoothing groups.

tank barrels are smooth