Tempust85

Chalk, man what happened lol? Your 2nd last update was alot more closer to him.

Ok, got it down to 7,800 tris. Can't really go any lower without a complete overhaul of everything.

Looks great! Will it be on PS4 though is what I'm wanting to know. I'm trying to figure out if I won't need my PS3 anymore.

Why not just change the .skin file it uses? I think it's .skin file 'G' or something, haven't looked in quite a while. I recommend looking in modview for the correct skin.

I do plan on doing LOD's, the original model's tri count is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too high not to have them. However I will only be making 2 LODs, preferrably: LOD0 - 7,500 tris (original model, need to get it down to this first or lower) LOD1 - 5,500 tris LOD2 - 3,500 tris The only person who did make them that I know of was Hapslash, no one else (once again that I know of) did not even me.

The way I get existing animations onto the biped I animate with in 3ds Max is using Bippy, which converts animated objects into a character studio biped. Neat tool really if you understand how to use it.

Ok Chalk, I got the tri count down from 12,000 to 8,345. Trying to find areas where I can cut detail from, but it's getting harder and harder lol.

Well that would explain why I haven't had to use it for my custom skele, I thought it was some pure luck but this is indeed great news!

If you want to edit animations in a way that's 100% compatible with JKA's other .xsi source animations, import the .xsi file that contains the animation you want to edit into Mod Tool. Then it's as simple as adding it to the rest of the xsi source animations for JKA and compile with carcass. AFAIK, XSI/Mod Tool will export out a 1:1 copy of the SRT & BASEPOSE data. 3ds Max exports out slight deviations with its SRT & BASEPOSE. Nothing that's really noticeable, but you will have to use the -ignorebasedeviations option with carcass.

Should be umm....interesting. Sadly, this isn't the most wierdest request in JO/JKA history lol.

Just don't try to import all of base JKA's GLA in Blender, it will lock up lol.

Try these pics Chalk:

The likeness in the face is gone again lol.

This is the best I can do in terms of a tutorial or sorts, I honestly do suck at these things. Now I won't go into downloading GLAMerge, downloading the JKA source animations or setting up model.car. This is just what you do in order to get added bones to behave properly in your end result. Stage 1 - Exporting & Compiling The Standard (base JKA) Animations: - Make a simple 2 framed animation (I recommend using the ROOT pose) with your added bones weighted to a mesh. This is so the rest of the animations you're wanting to add bones to will get the identity matrices. XSI or 3ds Max - doesn't matter. - Export out the animation. - Set up your model.car file to include the 'dummy' animation at the beginning, call it whatever you want. - Compile into a GLA named _humanoid.gla - After compile, rename to _humanoidstandard.gla for GLAMerge later. Stage 2 - Exporting & Compiling Your New Animations With Added Bones: - Make your new animation(s) in XSI or 3ds Max - doesn't matter. - Set up your model.car file to include your added bone animation(s) call them whatever you want. - Compile into a GLA named _humanoid.gla - After compile, rename to _humanoidadded.gla for GLAMerge later. Stage 3 - Combining Both GLAs: - Put both _humanoidstandard.gla & _humanoidadded.gla into the same folder as GLAMerge. - Run GLAMerge like this: glamerge.exe _humanoidstandard.gla _humanoidadded.gla - It will ask you what name you want your new combined GLA to be, call it _humanoid.gla - It will say 'editing frame ##' then it will complete.

They need to seriously stop cartoon-ifying all their series. Clone Wars 2D was horrible, 3D was slightly better.....

Yeah, your shoulders look a bit broad. I would suggest also using a JKA model, but without any extras on it (ie shoulder pads, puffy clothing, etc) like the jedi model so you can match up the arm-shoulder joint properly.

Wouldn't matter, either way. Not all the unused JO facial bones exist in all the animations, so I'd still be adding the unused JO bones in the exact same process and carcass would still kick up a sh*t. I found a method to get added bones position data working with carcass. For the exporter part of it, everything is fine.

I had another look, and it was outputting position data the whole time only I was expecting bigger changes in the XSI file. Staring at something all day long will do this. :\ It seems carcass doesn't like to include any position data for added bones (bones that do not exist in any of the base JKA animations), only rotation. So looks like I'm going to have to use GLAMerge to get my new facial animations in, oh well lol.

Ok, no idea what happened but it's now ouputting postion data in the XSI. Now it just seems as though carcass doesn't like it when you add bones that you want to have position data. :\

I have no idea what's going on. I make a test in a new scene and it ouputs postion data. I create a new dummy in my custom skeleton scene and that new dummy won't move either so I dunno what's going on. :S

The only thing I can see that's different is you have face_always_ linked to a biped head, where mine is apart of the standard JO skeleton nulls. I got your email, looking at it now.

I haven't made any packs or pauldrons yet, this is the base model. It's not long been made for Battlecry, and I haven't had alot of time to get more parts on him. And no, 95% not mirrored (bottom of the shoes are). May not even be able to use it without a full overhaul, due to the tri count being 12,000 lol.

The dummies have nothing special done to them. The root (ie pelvis) will move, it's only the children that won't. Tried a fresh import of the JO skeleton in Max 8 and still the same result as in Max 2011 with my skeleton.

Loving this, it's a nice change from the sci-fi stuff from JKA. I'd love to see a village with a real moving sun and a day/night cycle. Please someone code this in one day.