custom player model

[ladiszlai]

Hello Jkhub,

 

Is there any tutorial how can I create a custom player model in blender ? (With Mrwonko's plugin)

 

Or is it possible to convert an fbx model to glm with its animations ? 

[Ramikad]

Take a look at the tutorial section:

 

https://jkhub.org/tutorials/article/195-blender-jka-frankenstein-modelling/

 

Creating it from scratch, it should follow more or less the same principles.

[ladiszlai]

Take a look at the tutorial section:

 

https://jkhub.org/tutorials/article/195-blender-jka-frankenstein-modelling/

 

Creating it from scratch, it should follow more or less the same principles.

I've already seen this but it is not a custom player model it is just a mix of two exist glm.

[mrwonko]

I started creating a video tutorial on playermodel creation but got stuck when I had trouble modelling hands - I'll try to give that another try soon, maybe I'll get further this time.

[eezstreet]

Player model creation is not specific to JKA. It's specific to Blender. There are some steps at the end to get the model in game but I get the impression you aren't that far yet.

If you want to learn about creating humanoids, perhaps you could try Blender's official tutorials on doing so.

[ladiszlai]

Player model creation is not specific to JKA. It's specific to Blender. There are some steps at the end to get the model in game but I get the impression you aren't that far yet.

If you want to learn about creating humanoids, perhaps you could try Blender's official tutorials on doing so.

I already have a completed model, I just need to know how can I make it to jedi academy, also I can use blender. 

[Psyk0Sith]

Check the tutorials section for Blender and you should be good to go.

[ladiszlai]

Today I started setup my model in blender and I've got two questions:

 

Is it problem if I put only two tag to my model ? (right and left hand) Or I need to put all tags ? 

What does the "Off" mesh do ? (I know this mesh closes the holes, but I don't know what is the role of this in the game)

[Psyk0Sith]

-You need all tags

 

-The "off" meshes are called caps, they close the opening of the segmented characters / objects so they look like solid objects when sliced by a saber blade. If they are removed you will see "inside" the hollow sliced limb. They are not mandatory and can be added at a later time.

[ladiszlai]

-You need all tags

 

-The "off" meshes are called caps, they close the opening of the segmented characters / objects so they look like solid objects when sliced by a saber blade. If they are removed you will see "inside" the hollow sliced limb. They are not mandatory and can be added at a later time.

Thank you 

[ladiszlai]

Now I've got a problem: 

 

I read from the manual that I need to split the edges:

 

UV coordinates are per-vertex, meaning that any single vertex can onlyhave one UV coordinate. 

This necessitates splitting the mesh at UV seams,which can for example be achieved by also marking seams as "sharp" andusing the "Edge Split" modifier to split at those sharp edges.

 

 

but if I split the edges, my verticles change 200 to 1500 and it exceeds the limit

[Psyk0Sith]

Which manual?

 

I can assure you that you do not have to create any splits if you don't want to. It's the old way of creating smoothing groups for an old engine.

 

I guess the plugin requires it? nevermind me then.

Edited May 6, 2016 by Psyk0Sith

[ladiszlai]

Which manual?

 

I can assure you that you do not have to create any splits if you don't want to. It's the old way of creating smoothing groups for an old engine.

https://jkhub.org/files/file/1413-blender-264-jedi-academy-plugin-suite/

this include the manual

[ladiszlai]

 

 

I can assure you that you do not have to create any splits if you don't want to. It's the old way of creating smoothing groups for an old engine.

So what is the new way ? 

[mrwonko]

You do have to create splits, nothing changed if you're using my Blender plugins. It sucks, but it's that way.

 

What you don't need to do is separate every single triangle, which I assume is what you did leading to that explosion in vertex count. Don't do that. Only create cuts where necessary - in places where the texture has cuts. You can use a UV Test Grid texture to see the cuts in the 3d view.

[ladiszlai]

You do have to create splits, nothing changed if you're using my Blender plugins. It sucks, but it's that way.

 

What you don't need to do is separate every single triangle, which I assume is what you did leading to that explosion in vertex count. Don't do that. Only create cuts where necessary - in places where the texture has cuts. You can use a UV Test Grid texture to see the cuts in the 3d view.

Thank you for the answer Mrwonko,

 

I checked my UVs in the model with the Test grid texture and it already had cuts, so I don't need to cut anything but the the blender give me the error:

"Cannot load surface *Object*  (LOD 0) from Blender: UV Seam found! Split meshes at UV seams." 

It is only works when I split all of my edges.

Have you got idea ?

[mrwonko]

Are you sure there are already cuts in the geometry where there are cuts in the texture? Select an adjacent face and move it to see if there is indeed a cut.

[ladiszlai]

Are you sure there are already cuts in the geometry where there are cuts in the texture? Select an adjacent face and move it to see if there is indeed a cut.

Yes I am sure, but I fixed it now with this way: I removed the line from your py script (JAG2GLM.py) which make this error, then the blender exported my model.

I tried this model ingame and it is working

 

I changed this:

if not vectorsAlmostEqual(uv, UVs[vertexIndex]): # better be the same then
                        return False, "UV seam found! Split meshes at UV seams."

to this:

 if not vectorsAlmostEqual(uv, UVs[vertexIndex]): # better be the same then
                        UVs[vertexIndex] = uv

[mrwonko]

"Fixed". What you're doing there is removing UV Seams by stretching the texture across the triangle as necessary, screwing up your UV maps.

[ladiszlai]

I made a new playermodel and When I spawn this model as npc and when I try to attack him the game give me a crash: 

"Run out of transform space for ghoul2 Models. Adjust MiniHeapSize in SV_Spawn Server"

What can be the problem ? 

I have 24 mesh in this model (body parts) and 7989 verticles  (around 400-900 verticles per mesh)

[ensiform]

This is an issue with Jedi academy single player. It's fixed in the OpenJK project.

[ladiszlai]

This is an issue with Jedi academy single player. It's fixed in the OpenJK project.

Thanks and how did they fixed it ? 

[eezstreet]

Thanks and how did they fixed it ? 

It involves editing the source code.

You can find a build of OpenJK here:

http://builds.openjk.org

[ladiszlai]

It involves editing the source code.

You can find a build of OpenJK here:

http://builds.openjk.org

Ty, but I don't want to use OpenJK, I need a way to fix this issue for the game.

[Ramikad]

Ty, but I don't want to use OpenJK, I need a way to fix this issue for the game.

 

Why not? It's essentially a patched version of Jedi Academy.

But if you really don't want to use it, the only way to fix that problem is to cut down the vertex number of the model, or of both the playermodel and the weapon it's using.