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3 Dimensional Chat / CharacterFX - Can't see model

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BMacZero
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Posted: 4th Jan 2009 16:09
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Unfortunately CharacterFX has no forums of its own, so I'm hoping someone here has experience with it.

I'm trying to import a .3ds model from Blender. However, it isn't showing up. I'm not even sure if it's importing correctly, because SELECT ALL tells me that no vertices are selected. I tried scaling everything a bunch, panning around with the camera - no luck.

Anyone got importing from Blender to work?

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jasonhtml
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Posted: 4th Jan 2009 17:24
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well, i've not had any good experiences with .3ds files, i'll tell you that right now. my suggestion is to use only .x files with CFX. other things to make sure:

1. the normals are correct
2. the model is triangulated (CFX really hates nontriangulated models for some reason)

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Van B
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Posted: 4th Jan 2009 17:40
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I find that it's a case of the package used to export them, the 3DS format has some wild variations out there, but everytime I use a mesh exported from 3D Studio Max, it works perfectly.

Perhaps using the old DBConv converter and importing the X file as Jason says will do the trick. Otherwise I'd look into other formats, I think CharacterFX supports .OBJ as well, which is a much more straightforward and easily supported file format I believe.


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BMacZero
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Posted: 4th Jan 2009 18:09 Edited at: 4th Jan 2009 18:26
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I tried an OBJ, it wouldn't even open, it gave me a wierd error message. I'll try .X, I didn't think CharFX supported it.

Edit: CFX doesn't have an option to import .X files - only .3DS, .OBJ, and Milkshape .TXT. I tried to force it to open the .X and it told me "Obsolete format - resave."

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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 01:29
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Quote: "it gave me a wierd error message"


that is because you didn't triangulate the model like i said

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BMacZero
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 03:39
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Ah! You're right, I triangulate the x but not the obj

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BMacZero
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 04:03
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Alright, it's working now, thanks guys!

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