AshuraDX

welcome and Enjoy your stay !

I am currently writing a Maxscript that will allow you to easily fix the screwed up bones coming from importing a Noesis GLM==>>FBX file.

 

When I'm finished I'll send it to @@AshuraDX to upload in the Utilities section for me.

that will be uploaded together with the tutorial

, should make sure that it works properly first

@@Barricade24 I see you creeping the filequeue all night allready

so @@DT85 sent me a compiled version of OJK + rend2

now I can't set up rend2, I tried 

cl_renderer rd-rend2_x86 & cl_renderer rd-rend2, both followedf up by either a vid restart or restarting the game entirely - but after the restart it would still tell me it was set to rd-vanilla

 

 

EDIT : after deleting all OJK files from my gamedata folder and adding the new ones it seems to work, now I jsut need a test map....

 

EDIT2 : new version of the shaders and textures : https://www.dropbox.com/s/c37dkb54ddp6thy/HUGEDL44_v2.pk3?dl=0

 

something I noticed : are damage marks on glm meshes broken ? I shot it and then it had random white rectangles drawn all over it, not even in the location the shot hit it

@@Xycaleth - @@DT85 just noticed that my spec texture did not contain the gloss map in alpha, aswell as the diffuse texture came without Transparency, saved my tgas wrong as I barely use them ^^U

here are the fixed textures https://www.dropbox.com/s/igttcwkp8we5mo9/overwrite.zip?dl=0

this was textured using the Quixel DDO legacy version and should look like this

 

I usually work in Allegorithmics substance suite nowadays

 

EDIT : I also jsut remembered that the DL44 normal map has no parallax in Alpha

I usually prefer to do real sculpts instead. Painting is better suited for surface details.

usually - yes but in this case you allready have a textured lowpoly mesh and getting details to match between a new sculpt and that lowpoly is a pain in the ass

@@Xycaleth : here you go https://www.dropbox.com/s/fqz72sdesxej7ch/HUGEDL44.pk3?dl=0 as of now it's still uploading since the textures are all in 2k and uncompressed 24 bit TGAs

 

did not get the at-st ready yet  but I got the humansize DL44 done

 

includes :

DL44_rend2_d.tga - diffuse with Transparency in Alpha

DL44_rend2_s.tga - Specular with Gloss in Alpha

DL44_rend2_n.tga - Normal with height/displacement/Parallax in Alpha

I allways though it looked stupid

 

why would the eyes show highlights on opposing sides ? there's no explanation for that

@@Cerez fine then something else I noticed : are the eye balls sepperate meshes ? if so mirror one of them to get rid of the mirrored eye highlights

@@Psyk0Sith instead of using crazy bump I'd trace the important features in substance painter - effectively "paint-sculpting" a normal map on the lowpoly mesh

@@Xycaleth about the rend2 gloss maps - common setup ? white is glossy, black is dull ?

oh dear - it's me again posting here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9D2mvoMKLE

@@minilogoguy18 I have that somewhere, yeah - needs to be altered a little to use the gloss though

will get some test models packaged up and sent your way tomorrow evening @@Xycaleth

her eyes eem to be too far apart , just mov ethose vertices a bit towards the center

textures look nice !

the saber looks like this one : http://jkhub.org/files/file/268-backhand-lightsabers/

 

only looked at a single screenshot from Movie duels though

I actually see some hard seams in your screenshots, similar to what I ended up with. Hard to say until testing in game.

these are from the UV Seams Carcass is responisble for creating that nasty effect

 

I have found a way to fix that though using the noesis pipeline and some 3ds max "trickery" - tutorial incoming as soon as I got the pipeline for importing, editing and reexporting models to and from 3ds max down

I'll gladly supply modifed version of my models if want glm models for testing @@Xycaleth

how about a oversized DL44 blaster, complete with normals, spec & gloss ?

Cool, I'll give it a shot. If it breaks the lighting I'd be back to the same issue I was having with the Blender plugin. Fingers crossed.

look at my screenshots showing the imported alora - looks pretty fine to me

@@DT85 I forgot to ask, does your method keep the normals intact?

yes it should do so, I only get the breaks at UV seams in max, caused by the split vertices (which you could probably fix using the normals modifier in 3ds max)

I think I love you @@Xycaleth

try to keep in mnid what I told you about topology when you were working on mews head for this model @@Cerez

moved the 3ds max discussion to a new thread

@@DT85 the scaling is no problem at all - just don't scale the model on conversion from FBX to GLM !

simply alter this :

-scale 0.64 -g2exforceskeleton 53 -g2extagtrivertshift 4 -g2exorderbonesfromgla _humanoid.gla

to this :

-scale 1.0 -g2exforceskeleton 53 -g2extagtrivertshift 4 -g2exorderbonesfromgla _humanoid.gla

that should do the trick

 

otherwise the scale command should also be possible to use when converting glm to fbx making

my current option setup :

-scale 1.5625 -rotate 90 0 0

I'll try to find a command that fixes bone orientation - if reexporting and converting to glm does not work with the skewed skeleton

 

about weighting caps - that's what I was doing from the very beginning

 

EDIT :

got a close to correct hierarchy and correct scale using these commands :

-scale 1.5625 -rotate 90 0 0 -hiefrombones

also think I may have found a fix for the skewed bone pivots... if they are all skewed the same

 

EDIT 2 :

imported the fbx into your max skeleton @@DT85 oddly the model is still very small - way to small even though the scale parameter was set correctly

 

EDIT 3 :

-scale 3.953 -rotate 90 0 0 

model scale is now correct (according to your max8 skeleton)

bones are still a friggin mess but somehow the mesh hierarchy looks correct now

@@AshuraDX -- I'll be compiling a dotXSI exporter for 3dsMax 2015/2016 soon... life has me busy ATM.

we don't have all mdoels from JKA or user made models in .xsi

so this will be REALLY handy for people wanting to make quick edits to models

justn oticed the hierarchy was screwed up - so I'll have to rearrange that I guess- i'll keep you briefed @@Azatha