look how quick you can progress in blender 3d

[Nielk1]

You didn't set up the parent/child relation. Everything is falling to root because of that.

The HP must be a child of something...

[Nick53]

ok, I'll try and work that out?...

does this line in .odf file have anything to do with it?

weaponMask = 00011

[TheJamsh]

no no

its like a heirachy in the models file. go into the blender OOPS schematic and you should be able to see the heirachy of youre model. you can see how heirachies should be organised by looking at BZII XSI's in Threed.

read the blender turotial on wikipedia about the hat and the simple person. it tells you how to parent objects fairly easily.

[Dianoga4]

So far I've had better luck not parenting anything in Blender. Dunno why but everything seems work without me parenting it so far.

Dia

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

N53, how are you making your models? I've never seen parts of the model fall off before...fire in the wrong direction yes, but never just fall off. I'm not sure about B3D, but in other modeling applications separate parts of the model need to linked together by gluing them together as either siblings or children of a parent like the main body or turret assembly. This ties them all together along with the hp_points for things like weapons, etc.

[TheJamsh]

@ Dia, i think it only happens if you add a dummyroot frame, not sure as i havent got anything but a cube into the game yet...

[Nick53]

read the blender turotial on wikipedia about the hat and the simple person. it tells you how to parent objects fairly easily.

Thanks

[Dianoga4]

I use the dummyroot option all the time and it seems to work fine.

Nick parenting is fairly easy. Being lazy, I copied this from another post I made explaining it not that long ago....

To link objects to other objects (parenting), select an object, hold down shift and select another object. You can do this with multiple objects. Whatever object you selected last will end up being the parent of the rest that you have selected. Press Ctrl-P and a pop up will ask you if you want to "Make Parent" and then just press OK. Done. You should see a perferated(sp?) line going from the child objects to the parent object. Also if you want to quickly double check, select the parent object and move it around. All the objects that are linked to it should move as well.

To name objects, select and object and press "N". The Transform Properties window should pop up and in the top left corner you will see a small box with OB:. This is the object name. Click the box and rename it whatever you want. You will also notice the Par: box beside it. If that object is linked or parented to another object it will show the name of the parent object.

Hope that helps.

Dia

[TheJamsh]

ive just moved over to 3DS max 7... OOO working textures =]!

[Dianoga4]

Well if OM could show us the steps that he used to get the textures to show up with his exporter, I could test the animated textures as well. Just waiting on OM.

Dia

[Nick53]

Yes, I've got units and hps all sorted just trying to work out the textures...

[OvermindDL1]

I should have some quick time tomorrow evening...
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[AcneVulgaris]

Are any of you making pickles?  I think a person could learn a LOT about blender by striving to make the most militant pickle imaginable.

[Feared_1]

Are any of you making pickles?  I think a person could learn a LOT about blender by striving to make the most militant pickle imaginable.

[Nielk1]