Author Topic: POF exporter for MAX - Need people with MAX 4, 5 and 6 for testing (Read 281861 times)

IPAndrews · **Reply #500 on:** January 04, 2006, 07:24:01 am

Quote from: Styxx on January 03, 2006, 10:13:08 pm

Oh, it motivates me so much to have such overwhelming response!

Of course man. This plug in is the best thing to happen to the FS community in a long time. The models Maverick and Triv have put together using it for TBP all look fantastic.

Styxx · **Reply #501 on:** January 04, 2006, 09:25:11 am

Yeah, I know it's been helping out a lot, I was just joking. It's just that when I get to work on it, I can't find anyone online to try it out right away while I still have the motivation going.

Anyway, next on the list is the XForm problem. Then I'll look into the rest of the problems after this one (which seems to be the major problem now) is fixed.

aldo_14 · **Reply #502 on:** January 04, 2006, 10:43:39 am

What exactly is the xform problem? I never seem to have come across this one - at least, not knowingly.

Styxx · **Reply #503 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:02:58 am

Well, some people say that objects and subobjects come out moved, rotated or misaligned on the POF. It can be fixed by applying a Reset XForm modifier to the objects on MAX and reconverting them to Editable Mesh before converting, but it can be a pain if you have lots of subobjects.

Col. Fishguts · **Reply #504 on:** January 04, 2006, 12:15:33 pm

Quote from: aldo_14 on January 04, 2006, 04:58:31 am

What about that model radius problem?

That and the MOI are the most important ones. If you can't get the MOI to work properly, fill the matrix wit zeros, as PCS does. Not correct, but at least no weird ship spinning.

Styxx · **Reply #505 on:** January 04, 2006, 02:43:35 pm

Did you try the version I posted to check the MOI problem? And what's the radius problem?

Taristin · **Reply #506 on:** January 04, 2006, 03:51:12 pm

The raius of the model comes out twice as larg as the model itself. Dunno what that has to do with what in game, but it's there.

aldo_14 · **Reply #507 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:17:46 pm

Just view any model in the lab with the appropriate checked options.

Trivial Psychic · **Reply #508 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:30:59 pm

What about that problem where the center of the ship is moved too far forward? The result is that when warping, a ship will take longer to emerge from the vortex, and then the vortex will close on the back end of the ship. I have to send many of the new or recompiled TBP models to Stratcomm for this fix (done with HEX editor) and the MOI thing. If the MOI thing is now fixed, and if the warping position gets fixed, we can stop having to bug Stratcomm to fix out models for us.

Styxx · **Reply #509 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:39:13 pm

Well, the center of the ship is always at 0,0,0 on MAX, so all you have to do is center the ship properly on MAX before exporting. I can add a helper for the ship center info, though, if it's needed. It would be relatively easy. Now, the radius problem was really silly, so here's a RAR with updated versions with the radius properly halved. If it's still wrong, let me know, I didn't test it, just divided by two and recompiled everything.

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Col. Fishguts · **Reply #510 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:42:22 pm

StratComm is the guy to ask if the radius is correct now, as he's the one who fixed it before.

StratComm · **Reply #511 on:** January 04, 2006, 05:15:31 pm

If you just divided it by two, it should be close enough to not need tweaking any more. I figured it was something silly. Since this has come up before, most warpin position glitches are a directly related to a bad radius value, and that should be fixed now.

Taristin · **Reply #512 on:** January 04, 2006, 05:17:40 pm

Your plugin isn't creating any pof files for me. At all. It goes through the steps but no pof is made.

edit: after more testing. it successfully over wrote my horus. But the moloch I'm playing with will not.

edit2: pofexp keeps getting larger, but no pof file generated. now to see if this is because of the model or if it's with all of them

edit3: seems to be only that model. Wish i knew why. o.'.o

edit4: nevermind on that. that model seems to be generally f00ked...

StratComm · **Reply #513 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:40:24 pm

Can this thread get re-stickied? It's a rather important one, and with search out, it should stay in a visible place.

Styxx · **Reply #514 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:47:34 pm

Ops, unstuck it by accident. And Raa, if you want me to check it out, send me the model and I'll check the output logs. Gotta be for MAX 5, though.

Taristin · **Reply #515 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:22:30 pm

No can do. Max 7 here.

Though, mayb if Styxx is a good little boy, a late christmas gift could be max 8 >..>;;

Grug · **Reply #516 on:** January 05, 2006, 02:01:34 am

Quote from: Styxx on January 04, 2006, 04:39:13 pm

Well, the center of the ship is always at 0,0,0 on MAX, so all you have to do is center the ship properly on MAX before exporting. I can add a helper for the ship center info, though, if it's needed. It would be relatively easy. Now, the radius problem was really silly, so here's a RAR with updated versions with the radius properly halved. If it's still wrong, let me know, I didn't test it, just divided by two and recompiled everything.

Awsome, thanks mate! ^_^

If we could get a fully working version of this it would just make things so much easier and time conservative.

Styxx · **Reply #517 on:** January 05, 2006, 06:55:45 am

So, no one has a model with the XForm problem to send over? I'll assume no one is having that problem then.

StratComm · **Reply #518 on:** January 05, 2006, 07:36:38 am

Its fairly easy to come up with one, I just think Max 5 as a requirement may be a problem for at least a few people. I personally have learned to work around it but I do know how to cause it. Again, wait until I can get to my primary PC and I'll get you something.

Omniscaper · **Reply #519 on:** January 05, 2006, 01:51:40 pm

Urg... I buried my 3dsmax 5 ages ago. Will sending u a 3ds file be useless? Perfhaps the POF lof file.

I know this problem comes up when u mirror a mesh. The scaling, and orientation would be ok... but the shading will be reversed in the game. This is a problem corrected only by using reset X-form

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