Rooxon

that's not the problem, problem is i am working on too many projects atm.

Oh i am working on not-plastic-looking switcheroos for them but all i can show you for now is this: But imo they are just outdated. Back in the day, this look was one of the better ones known in games (2004 for me when i first played it). Adept, Firebrand and Champion are my choices.

@@Archangel35757 would it be possible to leave it like it is by default? To use the filepath of the applied bitmap from the material assigned to a part of the model (i.e. i add a texture to the model from my pre-set working base folder, which is d:\base\models\weapons2\XXXX\tex.png - this then converts the path to just models/weapons2/XXXX/tex.png (converting backward slashes to forward slashes) without the need to write this as the material name). Having an additional checkbox for using Material Names would then work without conflicting with this, but also export without any paths assigned if one does not add any bitmap texture to the model. I never work with textures other than my own ones and i don't remember that i've ever used anything else as "models" for the initial folder, but in case someone would... I think a checkbox for "Use Material Name as Path for textures" would then be great. In that case it's on the artist to change the name properly to get it to work and it should also overrule the way i'm using, the smartpath way with a bitmap given via the diffuse channel in the material of choice. DT85 has also a good point. "Use material name as path" would solve his problem, he may be running into this sort of trouble as of late for DF2. But it's not as quick as the bitmap way. So maybe you could do this: Under the checkbox for "use smartpaths" you could add two additional round checkboxes (only one can be selected), where the top one uses "models" as starting path and the other "Custom:" and one can type in whatever they want. IF someone decides to use a completely new folder like "MyMod" which then contains everything he uses, it would make things a whole lot easier for him, speed up his export process when working with a lot of models. But these are just my thoughts, you're the master. Whatever you think is best. EDIT: Another thing i'd like to see in this plugin, if possible, is to save a default export preset of settings for each artist for the duration of the 3D Studio Max session. After a restart, the settings would be again the default ones. Would speed up processess when one works with several models at once using custom export options.

i already did test everything we've talked about. works like the previous versions without problems. i'm moving onto the .xsi exporter today or tomorrow, got that turntable ready.

Yep something like that was my plan, keeping geometry only where needed. It is looking cool enough to get me interested in doing it and i've sworn that i won't be taking up requests for some time. One look at this and i almost changed my mind, gotta see how i come through with time.

@@Psyk0Sith not necesarilly. I might do it, it looks interesting enough. By the looks of it, 3Ds max should tell me it's around 800 verts, which then in turn in GLM numbers says it's 1600-2000 verts after the export. But needless to say, most things are gonna be baked onto the textures of course.

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