FBX to GLM converter

[eezstreet]

Can't you convert GLM to MD3 via ModView?

[Circa]

Can't you convert GLM to MD3 via ModView?

No, the opposite only.

[DT.]

And that's in md3view.

[Circa]

Oops. Yeah. I thought that's what he said.

[DT.]

This would benefit everyone, and I'm sure Chalk and minilogoguy would love being able to make MD3's from XSI.

[Szico VII]

Hey, my ase>md3 request was first

[DT.]

Won't need ase>>>>md3 if there's fbx>>>>>md3

[Szico VII]

Yeah I will, not owning any modelling programs and q3map2 only outputs to ASE.

[Xycaleth]

Would you guys want a GUI for this? There's not really much to show though to be honest. At the moment you can drag your FBX file on to the program icon and it'll spit out a GLM file, or you can use the command line if you want to specify the GLM file name.

 

Adding it to ModView could be an option if I ever finish my platform port to Mac and Linux, but for now that's off the table

[DT.]

Maybe down the track, but for now I'd think a 'drop and compile' will be quite suitable.

[DT.]

One thing I just thought of. Will this have LOD support?

[Archangel35757]

Don't you need to list out player joints? What about creating .surf and .skin files at compile time?

[Xycaleth]

One thing I just thought of. Will this have LOD support?

Yep, there is LOD support - if I've done it right I see 2 LODs on the Luke model you gave me, which are the same. Is that right?

 

Don't you need to list out player joints? What about creating .surf and .skin files at compile time?

Why would you need to list the player joints? Creating .skin files should be doable, as long as the FBX file has the correct texture paths. I can't remember what a .surf file does off the top of my head though!

[DT.]

I didn't add any LODs to the model I gave you, I'll send you a model that does have LODs.

 

EDIT:

 

Sent my stormtrooper model.

[Xycaleth]

I didn't add any LODs to the model I gave you, I'll send you a model that does have LODs.

Oh really...then that simplifies things a bit for me actually

[DT.]

There was model parts that were swappable though in the toshi Luke. Try out the stormie I sent you for LOD support.

[Xycaleth]

Got to have another look today, and it looks like I've done LOD support completely wrong lol. Will need to rewrite a fair amount of code to fix this now

 

EDIT: How many LODs does your stormtrooper have @@DT85?

[DT.]

@@Xycaleth

 

All 3. LOD0 (original model) LOD1 and LOD2. It's the same setup I used to export to GLM the conventional way, so everything should work.

[Xycaleth]

And LODs are fixed I have a weird problem with LOD0 of your Stormtrooper though @@DT85. The r_hand_plate surface is in completely the wrong place On LOD1 and LOD2, they are in the right place though. I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with the converter either. (The little white blob below the stormie is the right hand plate.)

[DT.]

Rofl, I'll check it out.

 

 

@@Xycaleth:

 

Yeah I have no idea what's going on there, both in Max & Noesis it appears fine. Can you check the hierarchy of the r_hand_plate? It should be linked to the r_hand.

[Xycaleth]

Well that's odd Now I have to fix more stuff!

[Scorpion]

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[DT.]

You sure LOD0 didn't get messed somehow when you fixed up LOD1 & 2?

 

The r hand plate is exactly the same as the other LODs in terms of pivot, hierarchy and skin weights so I honestly have no clue what happened. Does it do it for both the Y up & Z up versions?

[Xycaleth]

Despite the problem with that surface, I'll make a test version available now lol. It'll help me with finding more bugs, and I can fix that particular bug along with the others that will inevitably come in.

 

Download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/874909/fbx2ghoul2.zip

 

This is what it DOES do:

• Converts FBX file to GLM.
• Supports LODs.
• Supports static meshes.

DOES NOT support:

• Animations
• Skeletons

How to use:

From your 3d editor, export the model as an FBX binary file (it might work with text too? I'm not sure). Make sure to triangulate the model, and set Z as up. Drag and drop the FBX file on to the exe file, and the model.glm file will be created in the same directory as your FBX file.

 

I'm not releasing this on the JKHub files just yet until I'm sure the current features are working as they should.

 

PLEASE reply back with any bugs you find, and also any improvements or suggestions you have

[DT.]

One feature that will be very important if/when you implement bones & animation is an adjustable model scale.

 

Replaced the blaster rifle model just to see if the model would load up ingame:

 

 

No textures shown as the ghoul2 models for weapons must store their texture names internally and not use a .skin file like normal ghoul2 models.

 

EDIT:

 

@@Xycaleth

 

It honestly looks to work fine except not storing texture info in the GLM like what you would get with a weapon GLM model made with MD3view. I think the only way for this to get good use is when you add bone & animation support, as for some reason you can't add GLM models to maps. :\

 

On the topic of animation support, it would be very helpful to allow XSI file processing so people can work with the Raven animation source files.