look how quick you can progress in blender 3d

[bigbadbogie]

[TheJamsh]

lole lole lole, oh BBB cheers for the ship

[Dianoga4]

Did you get a chance to do this OM?

Dia

[OvermindDL1]

Not yet...
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[Nick53]

  (no hurry)

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

I'd still love to see a BZII XSI importer developed for B3D. It would make wanting to learn Blender a whole lot easier to swallow. Blender, is a complicated modeler that the average BZII modder tries to avoid given the easier 3D model making alternatives. Perhaps if we all get on our knees, whimper a Little, and beg a whole lot OM might look into seeing how difficult it would be to modify his exporter script to make importing XSI files a possibility? BNG, drops down and whimpers oh please, please, please...gimme what's in the box. PS: I can help wonder if it's even doable?

[OvermindDL1]

XSI is parsing text, which is very ugly.  There are other paths to convert them anyway (3dex for example).
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[TheJamsh]

@ BNG.

use 3Dex to convert them to lightwave, maybe even a later version of .XSI format, and you can import that into blender. i found lightwave to be the best as objects dont get pulled to the center...

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

I tried converting a working animated X file into XSI using OM's exporter without success. Blender, somehow screwed up the file along with the animation. What gives? Why do importers/exporters always seem to screw up things when things are they are converted from one format to another? Any insight on what a modeler can do to minimize these kinds of issues?

PS: 3DEX doesn't seem to like the LWO version 5 file format that my Lightwave demo version exports, but seems to love the OBJ format of said program much more. It also exports to 3DS and I may have to try that next. Are there export formats that accurately translate animated files correctly or is this issue pretty common when converting file between different formats? Truly it's very frustrating for the average modeler trying to find workable solutions for doing any kind of animation for the game...BNG.

[Dianoga4]

Any chance to try it out yet OM?

Dia

[mrtwosheds]

Blender, somehow screwed up the file along with the animation. What gives? Why do importers/exporters always seem to screw up things when things are they are converted from one format to another?

The question is how did it screw it up?
If you just wound up with the first (or last) frame it is probably because parenting was lost.
If your animations just don't work it may be that frame/mesh names have been truncated, or changed.