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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Retsof on December 07, 2008, 10:31:49 pm

Title: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Retsof on December 07, 2008, 10:31:49 pm

Okay, before you ask, I did do a forum search.
Anyway, I felt like making a shield mesh for the Leviathan, so I did a cob>dxf into blender, took one of the lower LODs and scaled, subsurfed, and moved a few vertices where bits were sticking out.  But that's not important.  When I try to get it into PCS it crashes.  I get that startup pop-up for a bit then the "this program has had an error and needs to close".  So after seeing stuff with lights and subobjects etc. I ended up just replacing the shield on an Ursa in hopes that I could import the mesh from PCS/Modiview.  Still didn't work.  Then it turn out I got the "e" and the "i" switched in the word shield.  Fixed that, still crashes.  Urg.....

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Galemp on December 07, 2008, 10:47:07 pm

What exactly are you trying to get out of Blender and into PCS? A Collada file?

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Retsof on December 07, 2008, 10:57:40 pm

I just went back from dxf to cob.  Did the subobject stuff in TS with the... table/directory looking thingy.
SMALLEDIT:  I'm signing off for the night, see you all tomorrow.

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Retsof on December 09, 2008, 09:32:28 pm

:bump:  Wow, have I got you all stumped?

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: blowfish on December 10, 2008, 01:12:58 am

Uhh ... just use collada.  That imports right into blender.  Make the shield mesh, call it "shield" and import back into PCS2 via DAE again.  Should work fine.

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Retsof on December 10, 2008, 06:38:39 pm

M'kay, I'll check it out.

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: esarai on December 11, 2008, 08:23:08 pm

If that fails epic, I have a .blend to .cob converter that should help. It works just fine for me, so if you need I can post it up somewhere.

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Retsof on December 11, 2008, 09:00:05 pm

Erm... can someone give me a download link for collada?

Title: Re: Help with shield mesh.
Post by: Droid803 on December 11, 2008, 09:07:13 pm

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,57841.0.html

Look through this thread, I asked the exact same thing :D