Trying to add a new part on my model but...

[Basil Bonehead]

I'm trying to add something to my model but when i try to export it, it says it's missing ghoul2 proporties or something like that. what do i do?

 

the part in question is the Torus i added. How do i rig it to the head?

 

 https://orig00.deviantart.net/9b25/f/2018/113/c/6/blender_2018_04_23_13_34_39_18_by_mr_mannface-dc9myp8.jpg

[Langerd]

You must add amature modiefier - call it skin and parent it to the skeleton. You also need to weight this model to this skeleton. It also need to be model made of triangles.

 

Making player models is very time consuming hard process... even adding simething simple as hat is very hard to acheive. There should be video tutorial how to make this... sadly i dont have time lately and i am not skilled enough to do it. But i suggest you one thing - look on the other part of the models and see how things looks with them. I learned from the observation and i made them myself

[Ramikad]

You also have to add a Ghoul 2 property to the mesh: Object -> Ghoul 2 Properties -> Add G2 properties. This will allow you to define the Ghoul 2 properties of that mesh: you can name it - and that name will be the one you'll use in the .skin file to apply a texture on it - and you can apply a specific shader to it (otherwise, if you want to define it in the .skin file, you can write [nomaterial] as shader). You can also tick the mesh as Tag or Off, but being a headband you won't need to tick them off.

[Basil Bonehead]

You must add amature modiefier - call it skin and parent it to the skeleton. You also need to weight this model to this skeleton. It also need to be model made of triangles.

 

Making player models is very time consuming hard process... even adding simething simple as hat is very hard to acheive. There should be video tutorial how to make this... sadly i dont have time lately and i am not skilled enough to do it. But i suggest you one thing - look on the other part of the models and see how things looks with them. I learned from the observation and i made them myself

the playermodel is playable, i just want to add a new detail to it with the torus i'm putting on my model

[Basil Bonehead]

You also have to add a Ghoul 2 property to the mesh: Object -> Ghoul 2 Properties -> Add G2 properties. This will allow you to define the Ghoul 2 properties of that mesh: you can name it - and that name will be the one you'll use in the .skin file to apply a texture on it - and you can apply a specific shader to it (otherwise, if you want to define it in the .skin file, you can write [nomaterial] as shader). You can also tick the mesh as Tag or Off, but being a headband you won't need to tick them off.

because of my unfamiliarity to blender, where do i find that option?

[The Punisher]

https://jkhub.org/topic/10172-blender-jka-frankenstein-modelling/

See the video tutorials, especially:

 

Skyrim to JKA

 

Click here to learn how to do it

[Basil Bonehead]

https://jkhub.org/topic/10172-blender-jka-frankenstein-modelling/

See the video tutorials, especially:

 

Skyrim to JKA

 

Click here to learn how to do it

managed to figure it out with the tutorial, thanks. now i face a new problem, when trying to export the model, it says blender can't load the surface of my model and says something like vertex without UV. what's that about?

 

how do i go about fixing this?

[Basil Bonehead]

never mind i have another idea

[Ramikad]

managed to figure it out with the tutorial, thanks. now i face a new problem, when trying to export the model, it says blender can't load the surface of my model and says something like vertex without UV. what's that about?

 

how do i go about fixing this?

 

Make sure the mesh is unwrapped (Edit Mode -> Mesh -> UV Unwrap... -> any of the options - Unwrap option gives the best results if you know how to use it well), and make sure that the UV map edges are split (selecting the "border" edges in the UV map, Edit Mode -> Mesh -> Edges -> Edge Split).

[Basil Bonehead]

I'm honestly on the brink of giving up because trying to add the torus onto the head of my model is getting frustrating. I'd rather have a one on one conversation with someone over skype and talk my way through this because that's how irritated I am

[Jeff]

I'm honestly on the brink of giving up because trying to add the torus onto the head of my model is getting frustrating. I'd rather have a one on one conversation with someone over skype and talk my way through this because that's how irritated I am

 

My advice would be, sleep on it and come back to it tomorrow, and if you have to re-watch the tutorial and try again. Like anything else in life the more you do it the easier it becomes. GL 

[Langerd]

Like i said.. even adding small detail for player model is not simple. There are a lot of things you need to do to even add a smaller detail to the model.

[Basil Bonehead]

went to bed, cooled off, followed the tutorial some more but the current problem regarding trying to export it is this:

 

https://img00.deviantart.net/ba10/i/2018/114/3/b/blender_2018_04_24_17_02_11_37_by_mr_mannface-dc9qnzz.jpg

 

what do i do?

[Ramikad]

went to bed, cooled off, followed the tutorial some more but the current problem regarding trying to export it is this:

 

https://img00.deviantart.net/ba10/i/2018/114/3/b/blender_2018_04_24_17_02_11_37_by_mr_mannface-dc9qnzz.jpg

 

what do i do?

 

Exactly this:

 

It also need to be model made of triangles.

 

To fix it, select the mesh, enter Edit Mode, then press Ctrl + T, which will make all faces of that mesh triangles.

[Basil Bonehead]

Exactly this:

 

 

To fix it, select the mesh, enter Edit Mode, then press Ctrl + T, which will make all faces of that mesh triangles.

for some reason hitting Crtl + T does nothing, it's in edit mode and it does nothing and i have the node wrangler enabled too

[Ramikad]

Make sure you have all the faces selected (A key). If it still doesn't work, enter Edit Mode -> Mesh -> Faces -> Triangulate Faces.

[Basil Bonehead]

got the triangulate faces things now, tried to export it again and got an error saying "could not load a vertex: unweighted vertex found!"

 

i weighted the thing, it's weight is set to 1 like in the tutorial, i checked my model i'm trying to add on, it don't get what's going on. for the umpteenth time lol (i gotta stay optimistic sometimes)

[Ramikad]

Are you sure you weighted them to the proper bone (since it's a headband, I guess it's cranium)? Check it out in Data -> Vertex Groups.

[Basil Bonehead]

Are you sure you weighted them to the proper bone (since it's a headband, I guess it's cranium)? Check it out in Data -> Vertex Groups.

yes, i did. i don't know what else to check. i did multiple things to see if it would allow me to export the model and no results

[The Punisher]

yes, i did. i don't know what else to check. i did multiple things to see if it would allow me to export the model and no results

When you switch to weight paint mode and click on the cranium (on the vertex groups), does the entire mesh turns red?

Is cranium all in lower case? When you weighted it, was the option to show non-issue vertices selected?

[Basil Bonehead]

When you switch to weight paint mode and click on the cranium (on the vertex groups), does the entire mesh turns red?

Is cranium all in lower case? When you weighted it, was the option to show non-issue vertices selected?

yes, yes, and where do i check that because i don't see that option?

[The Punisher]

yes, yes, and where do i check that because i don't see that option?

I am not at my computer but is on the bottom menu bar. Around 7 or 8 icons to the right of the dropdown where you select weight paint or edit mode.

[Basil Bonehead]

I am not at my computer but is on the bottom menu bar. Around 7 or 8 icons to the right of the dropdown where you select weight paint or edit mode.

when you do get on your computer, could you take a screenshot showing where i should look because i don't know what you're referring to. i think our layouts of blender are radically different

[Basil Bonehead]

I am not at my computer but is on the bottom menu bar. Around 7 or 8 icons to the right of the dropdown where you select weight paint or edit mode.

i think i found it, which button is it?

[The Punisher]

Sorry, got home late. When you swith to weight paint, it should be to the left of the button with a camera icon. Note: i am using Blender 2.72, some older versions of blender don’t seem to have it (or at least not were it should be).