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Offline Taristin

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Reply #260 on: February 10, 2005, 07:06:32 pm
Oh. Well, I said I wouldn't look through all 6 pages to see his problem. I was thinking it was the 'duplicate class found' error.

What I added to the wiki is assuming that the plugin loads.
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Reply #261 on: February 10, 2005, 11:57:10 pm
@karajorma, actually i have Max2.5, so im basically netural. I only used the whole "Max4 then Max5" as an example. It doesnt matter which way you go, eg Max6, Max4 then Max5, just as long as you focus on one version of the plugin then move onto the next version once the previous one has practially all it's bugs killed.
 

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Reply #262 on: February 14, 2005, 02:18:36 pm
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Originally posted by Raa


I'm sorry, but I will not go hunting through 300 posts to find your problem. Either quote what the problem is, or link to the post directly.

I don't know what trouble you are having with the plugin. (I also am not the one who made it) But, all you have to do is place the plugin in the 3dmaxN/plugins/ directory. If/when you get the error message at startup, all you have to do is click Customize -> Plugin Manager...  find the plugin, right click, and select 'load'.

It really is that simple.


FYI, if you do a search under user, 'Xenthorious' and look only for posts within this topic, you quickly narrow down the search to only 12.

Once again, here are all the urls you need to verify the issue:
plug-ins that work from Bioware NWN: http://talimoor.game-host.org/clip.jpg

Plug-ins which fail to init on startup (provided by this dev team): http://talimoor.game-host.org/clip2.jpg

Plug-ins which fail to init on manual startup in plug-in manager (provided by this dev team): http://talimoor.game-host.org/clip3.jpg

Post from Deepblue indicate this is not an isolated issue.  Thanks for your concern.
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Reply #263 on: February 20, 2005, 06:17:49 pm
Please don't let the dream die!
 

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Reply #264 on: February 21, 2005, 04:25:31 am
Yeah, don't.
 

Offline Omniscaper

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Reply #265 on: February 21, 2005, 04:35:52 am
Wow, still having problems with the 3dsmax 5 build of the pluggin? I've been problem free throughout my Galactica modding. I thought the latest build (the glow point build) fixed that issue with initialization. It did with me. I use 3dsmax 6 going on 7.
 

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Reply #266 on: February 21, 2005, 08:51:40 am
I swear, I tried that exact build like a week ago.  Oh well, looks like I'm back in business :D
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Reply #267 on: February 22, 2005, 11:46:52 am
I think it has to do with 3ds max 5 specifically.
 

Offline xenthorious

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Reply #268 on: February 26, 2005, 08:34:08 am
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I think it has to do with 3ds max 5 specifically.


Weather it does or does not, it is very irritating that we can not do any modeling work using 3DS for any FS2 projects.  Also, I've noticed if we do not b!tch about it, people easily forget us.  With this said, if I sound rude from this point on, it's not my intent to be hostile.  I just want to see this problem resolved and behind us.
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Reply #269 on: February 26, 2005, 12:26:10 pm
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Originally posted by xenthorious


Weather it does or does not, it is very irritating that we can not do any modeling work using 3DS for any FS2 projects.  Also, I've noticed if we do not b!tch about it, people easily forget us.  With this said, if I sound rude from this point on, it's not my intent to be hostile.  I just want to see this problem resolved and behind us.


You can use 3DS for anything just cant convert it directly to FS, just a quick stop in TS for hierarchy and it works just fine
 

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Reply #270 on: February 26, 2005, 12:41:09 pm
That quickstop is the source of a world of pain.

....especially since unlike Max it can't handle smoothgroups without assigning a different material to each and every part you want to assign a different smoothgroup.
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Reply #271 on: February 26, 2005, 04:13:41 pm
Ugh... he said the T-word.
 

Offline Omniscaper

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Reply #272 on: February 26, 2005, 06:48:56 pm
"...the T-word"  LOL.

Does anyone know how this pluggin sets the normals for turrets? I have 98 turrets that do not shoot straight. The only fix is to use PCS to adjust each and every one. PCS runs painfully slow with a 23k model and I don't have 5 hours to devote to this process. There must be a way to set it in max. Its exporting normals data into the POF somehow.
 

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Reply #273 on: February 26, 2005, 08:14:23 pm
I'm betting it uses pivots as normals.
 

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Reply #274 on: February 27, 2005, 12:06:32 am
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Originally posted by Omniscaper
"...the T-word"  LOL.

Does anyone know how this pluggin sets the normals for turrets? I have 98 turrets that do not shoot straight. The only fix is to use PCS to adjust each and every one. PCS runs painfully slow with a 23k model and I don't have 5 hours to devote to this process. There must be a way to set it in max. Its exporting normals data into the POF somehow.


I don't remember the naming of anything, but I think it uses a helper object bound to each turret, and draws a line from the center of the turret geometry to the helper object. Look in the sample POF for an example.
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Reply #275 on: March 01, 2005, 10:57:24 pm
This thing's still a bit buggy with positioning a lot of smaller heirarchy bits; turret barrels don't line up correctly if they aren't geometrically centered on their base, for example.  Also, if the model itself is not centered about (0,0,0) almost all point helpers get shifted and you wind up with wrong-facing normals.  Finally, I'm seeing stability issues that desperately get resolved.  I'd settle for a command-line tool that regenerates the BSP data without touching the normals or polygons themselves, so that we could get the Max plugin's excellent helpers and perfect smoothing conversion combined with the superior collision-detection of ships converted with PCS.
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Reply #276 on: March 04, 2005, 09:53:24 pm
OH NOES! I HAVE V1.2!!!! :( :( :( :( :(
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Reply #277 on: March 05, 2005, 05:01:34 pm
:wtf:
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Reply #278 on: March 05, 2005, 05:38:43 pm
WOW!!! Thats old skool! I haven't used 1.2 since 1998.
 

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Reply #279 on: March 05, 2005, 06:01:38 pm
I upgraded 5.0 to 5.1 and it still doesen't work
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