Custom Smesh - Can someone compile for me?

Ziemanskye on 4/11/2005 at 15:53

I've built a couple of simple objects in max - in the style of the a post for and a (single) spike from a Collector, with various dummy objects and stuff set up, and I was hoping someone could *.tim if for me (damn these incomapitible versions), because I'd like to use it in my level, but also because I want to know if it's set up right or not.

(http://rapidshare.de/files/7179866/Collector.3DS.html)

The texture won't come in right, but hopefully that wont matter - so long as it's a smeshified correctly it can hopefully be reskinned in the editor anyway.

Edit - Picture:
(http://img29.imageshack.us/my.php?image=collectoralpha4il.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8292/collectoralpha4il.th.jpg

ascottk on 4/11/2005 at 17:06

Is this what it's supposed to look like (ignoring the collision mesh)?

(http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=collector2bw.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9867/collector2bw.th.jpg

Ziemanskye on 4/11/2005 at 17:25

More or less, if you ignore the collision meshes visible in that.

I put the spike at the bottom as a seperate object, because I didn't know if the exporter uses the object's origin or the world's.

Around here somewhere someone said that you could export all through the converter and it'd do all the objects to their own tim files, so I kept both in the same file.

ascottk on 4/11/2005 at 17:51

Few more questions:

There's a few more objects: Hard Point, High Detai0, High Detai, High Detail, hp_collPiv (some just show as red boxes), and a few Collision boxes. I'm assuming some are attachment points but I'm not sure.

What's the height on this thing?

Ziemanskye on 4/11/2005 at 17:59

Total height of the main post should be around 192 units, I'm not sure exactly what it is.

There should be: (the names might be off a little, bear with me, and the = indicate hierachy levels, hopefully)

zFS_CollectorPost

=Collision (Dummy object, just an outline to look at)
==High Detail (Dummy Object again)
==hkconvex_box01 (the collision models, I think there's 01-04)

=Hard Point (dummy object)
==hp_collPivot (dummy object - wanted to see if it'd show as a hardpoint for attaching things to in the editor)

and the other object...

zFS_CollectorSpike
=Collision
==High Detail
==hkconvex_box01 (only 01-02 in this one)

That should be it, I think.
I'm just basing that on things posted ages ago where rujuro worked this out, and making up the hard point stuff out of optimism.

ascottk on 5/11/2005 at 01:48

I don't think the conversion to 3ds did very well :tsktsk: Could you post a screenshot of how it's supposed to look? Or send a *.max file.

(http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=collectormax6gf.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4099/collectormax6gf.th.jpg

Ziemanskye on 5/11/2005 at 10:51

I guess it's mangles my names.
Ho hum.

Still, here's a shot of what it looks like (though yours seems right apart from the names)

(http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=collhierachy3rg.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8208/collhierachy3rg.th.jpg

And a zip with *.max, *.ase, and *.obj versions in it (just in case, and cause it's small anyway)

(http://rapidshare.de/files/7212969/Collector.zip.html)

ascottk on 5/11/2005 at 19:30

Sorry it took so long. The ASE file worked better but I had to replace the collision meshes because it was exporting those as separate meshes. I tested the attachments but they don't work too well. If you tweak the offsets they should work.

(http://rapidshare.de/files/7233398/zFS_Collector_tim.zip.html)

Ziemanskye on 5/11/2005 at 21:26

Thank you.

(I haven't tested it yet, but I know you have things of your own to do).

For the record though, what was wrong with the collison boxes? I assumed something would have gone wrong, but just incase I try make any more I'd like to know.

ascottk on 5/11/2005 at 21:35

Quote Posted by Ziemanskye

I guess max 5.1 was interpreting those boxes as regular meshes. Are you using the collision maker script that came with t3ed (it might work with later version of max)? It could also be a version problem. I ended up assigning collision meshes per part (top of the collector, the post, base, two on the spike).