FBX to GLM converter

[minilogoguy18]

Yeah because I just checked to be certain and there is no triangulate option in the FBX exporter for Softimage. It's not a super huge deal but would be nice to have your program automatically triangulate models.

 

I'm mostly wanting this for weapons since Softimage has no trouble going the old fashioned route of character compiling like other 3d packages.

 

You should do a FBX -> MAP next, that would be awesome.

[Xycaleth]

Okay! New version of the converter is available. Same address as before: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/874909/fbx2ghoul2.zip

 

This update fixes the normals, as well as some vertex weighting issues. I also added model triangulation, which hasn't been tested, but I'm pretty confident will work. It turned out to be pretty easy to add. As a result, triangulating the model upon exporting the FBX file is now optional

 

The problem described here still exists - I'm still investigating the cause of the problem.

[Xycaleth]

So it looks like the problem with the broken animations was due to me not being able to count to 3. But this problem is now fixed

 

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

 

There are now no known problems with the converter, but I want to tidy up and optimize the code a bit more before submitting it to the files section

 

My next plan for this converter is to have it extracting the animation data from the FBX file and then export it as a .GLA file. Once that's done, there's a few tricks I want to try which include potential minor rendering speed improvements, and reduced jitter in exported animations.

[minilogoguy18]

This should really help some other software users, maybe even attracting people who use Maya.

[Xycaleth]

To anyone who tries the latest version out: are there still problems along the UVW seams?

[Tempust85]

@@Xycaleth

 

Looks to be a 1:1 copy when comparing both GLMs, (carcass & fbx2glm), great job!

 

 

EDIT:

 

Haven't tested the UVW seam issue yet, will do now.

[Tempust85]

@@Xycaleth

 

Both of my importers for GLM still have the mesh breaks along the UVW seams.

[minilogoguy18]

^Just to make sure but you know that the .XSI->carcass->.GLM method breaks edges along UV boundaries as well, it may just be something that has to be dealt with.

[Xycaleth]

As far as I can tell, where the UVW seams meet, the positions and normals are identical for the duplicated vertex, so in-game, you won't notice a split. It goes back to what I said earlier in the topic:

 

Just because a vertex gets duplicated doesn't mean it has to be different. If you have duplicate vertices with matching normals and texture coordinates then you won't be able to see where they meet 

 

@@Xycaleth

 

Both of my importers for GLM still have the mesh breaks along the UVW seams.

Are you checking if there are seams by importing the GLM into 3DS max? Usually seams won't appear in your modeling program, but get created by the exporter (i.e. export to XSI or FBX). From what I can guess, it's then up to the importer to remove these seams.

[minilogoguy18]

It more than likely lies in the GLM format itself since it's something that happens no matter how you get a model to GLM.

[Archangel35757]

Yay, I got it working. For some reason I was getting duplicates of all the vertices, which is why the vertex count was super high. I'll upload a new version of the converter some time today. I still need to fix a bug with the weightings!

 

 

Why does it seem like his right elbow is missing?

[Tempust85]

That was the weighting bug, which he's fixed now.

[Archangel35757]

@@Xycaleth -- this converter is a huge success! I hope it brings Maya modellers into the community. As well as good news for Max 2013 & 2014 users. Did Raven ever release the specs for Ghoul2 format?

[minilogoguy18]

G2 and MD3 source has been out for some time, I've been wanting some Softimage plugins like GLM import and MD3 import/export but can't get any interest.

[Xycaleth]

Making GLM files more accessible was my plan with this, and was why I chose to go with FBX

 

Btw, has anyone tried converting their FBX file without triangulating the polygons yet? I'd be interested to see how well it works compared to a pre-triangulated model.

[AshuraDX]

I tried to use this and well , it apearently didn't work correctly , I didn't get any error messages , it just opened , closed and didn't give me a file

you should really add some kind of error message

[Xycaleth]

How did you run it?

 

You need to either drag and drop a .fbx model on to the exe, or run it from command line (for the moment). But it has just occurred to me that when you drag and drop, you won't see the error messages that show up in the little window that pops up if there are any errors.

[Tempust85]

Run it using a .bat file and add pause on the next line, you should see any errors then.

[Tempust85]

@@Xycaleth

 

I'm not getting any tags on my model. I get a list of tags, but when I click on one it's not there. No idea what happened, the carcass version works fine.

[Xycaleth]

@@DT85 Bug is now fixed. Expect the latest version to be in the files section some time soon

[Circa]

@@DT85 Bug is now fixed. Expect the latest version to be in the files section some time soon

'tis approved. 

 

[Tempust85]

Looks to work properly now.

 

[ChalklYne]

@@Xycaleth 

Amazing work man VERY cool stuff. This will be used over and over for a very long time. I plan on using it for my mod. Awesome work man and thank you!

[Xycaleth]

Awesome work at always @@DT85

 

@@Xycaleth 

Amazing work man VERY cool stuff. This will be used over and over for a very long time. I plan on using it for my mod. Awesome work man and thank you!

Thanks! There's still more to come soon, so you'll be able to create custom GLA skeletons

[Tempust85]

@@Xycaleth

 

Now I take it we will be able to compile multiple animations into the one GLA right?