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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
HAHAHAH  :D

however, you could keep smoothing values too.  Plus keep the heirachy.
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
format hopping has a way of raping your models to death. making them buggy and loose somewhat important data, such as smoothing or uv. as for .3ds format, ive seen it shread more models than takashi, and thats saying something. half the time it only works for single objects, the format has countless versions, so a 3ds saved from truespace 6 wont load in max at all and 3ds files from max wont load in truespace at all. id go as far as saying its worse than cob.

actually it occurred to me that it may be the xform bug which was making my heirarchy come out wrong. so i reset the xform on everything and the problem still remains. as you can see in max and the results in modelview, and this is after applying reset xform to every object in the scene. i actually thought i had fixed it, but my hierarchy was wrong with the gatling models were siblings, rather than children to the barrels. i probibly set it up like that to test something else in the model. anyway after reconfiguring the hierarchy properly it still gave me crap. then i stripped out every option accept for turrets, still nothing.

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« Last Edit: April 21, 2007, 07:21:18 am by Nuke »
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
I didn't imply 3ds, because it most definetely sucks.  Especially the version that max 7 exports, it's limited to 8.3 filename WTF?! I was thinking more home-brewed, unless someone gets a MAX imported for PCS2 (as soon as I win the lottery  :lol: )
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Well, having the insignia thingy work would b cool ^^

And yeah, gotta agree on that hierarchy thingy as well
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
format hopping has a way of raping your models to death. making them buggy and loose somewhat important data, such as smoothing or uv. as for .3ds format, ive seen it shread more models than takashi, and thats saying something. half the time it only works for single objects, the format has countless versions, so a 3ds saved from truespace 6 wont load in max at all and 3ds files from max wont load in truespace at all. id go as far as saying its worse than cob.

actually it occurred to me that it may be the xform bug which was making my heirarchy come out wrong. so i reset the xform on everything and the problem still remains. as you can see in max and the results in modelview, and this is after applying reset xform to every object in the scene. i actually thought i had fixed it, but my hierarchy was wrong with the gatling models were siblings, rather than children to the barrels. i probibly set it up like that to test something else in the model. anyway after reconfiguring the hierarchy properly it still gave me crap. then i stripped out every option accept for turrets, still nothing.

X-From shouldn't have to do anything with the heirachy.

You simply can't use it on linked or grouped object. So you have to x-form is before you start linking stuff.
Also... don't link it to rotated dummies. Check the pivots.

I had a lot of problems with this too, but in the end, I had to blame myself for it. ;)

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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
the pivots seem to be where theyre supposed to be. actually there distance from the center of the ship is about the same as they should be from the turret center. i think whats happening is that it seems to be inherenting the parent's offset, but not its grandparents offset (the actual turret base).

i also took anything identifying them as turrets out of the model, the points and renamed the models. that didnt seem to help either. i quadruple checked all my pivots, there all dead center the way i had set them up.   just keep giving me ideas im sure something will work :D
« Last Edit: April 22, 2007, 06:23:25 am by Nuke »
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Heres another thingy that could be implemented: Viewpoints
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Just to make it clear, there's no way I'll be working on a MAX to PCS bridge. It's MAX to POF, and that's it. Load the POF in PCS and edit it there if that's what you want. ;)
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Heres another thingy that could be implemented: Viewpoints

Yepp, I think that's handy.
Maybe it might be even possible to use a camera for this.


@Styxx

I have another suggestion. I know the MOI generation is complex. Could you make the MOI setable for the user?
Maybe by adding it to the export window?

There is currently no way to change the MOI of ships that have too many polies for Modelview.
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
That explains why MView crashes on me wherever I try to set the MOI for the XXXXXXX :P

In that case, what DaBrain says ^^
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Yeah, I'll make it possible to set the MOI somewhere in the MAX scene, that was on the list since way back when I first started working on the exporter. :)
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
what about adding a bunch of max gizmos for different freespace data that are to be included in the scene (like gunbanks gunpoints with normals and stuff like that)? rather than just using dummys for everything (which gets confusing after awhile).
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
That would require a different plugin. I can look into it, but they'll be just extensions of the dummy helpers, so it wouldn't be much of a difference apart from the name anyway. This is for after everything is working again, though, so it'll be dummies for a good while still.
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
one quick question:

how did voliton make their .pofs?

and a statement:

maybe you could contact them and find out.

They had a stand-alone converter. It's not worth digging up, as it was designed for FS2 Retail, and won't be as good as the PCS converter or this plugin.

Oh, and shouldn't you know how they did it? You DID work for them after all...  :rolleyes:
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
i told the truth at game warden. im a total embelisher (makes things seem better). it was a job shadow. and what a fun one....wish they told me the multipliers for max velocity and max OCLK speed....

 

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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Multiple mapping channels. I know there will have to be engine side support for this too, but once we get shaders, we could really need at least one additional mapping channel.
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
hI,
I am 3DS max9, the plugins not works :(...

 

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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
Uhm hi i come to ask for a old problemes about dll failed to initialize i have use pof export in max 5 with no any prob.

recently got a bad virus need format C.

after reinstaling system and max 5 i got this problemes now and dont remember me so how many thing is installed on my comp before got this error probably 3dsmax 7 vertion or 8 installed and deltree again or true space 7 really dont know but update to max 5.1 the prob is still not here.

if any know the issue for correct this really tks.

i have read 1 to 32 not found.

 

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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
man, this kinda died off sometime in april.

any progress at all?
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Re: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing
I thought this died off way before that.  I don't think anyone's done updating on this plugin in a long time, and I think this thread only exists for support and a place to get it.
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