I am, as you would expect, new to Gamestudio, and am in need of some assistance. With my questions, I have searched for answers and gotten only confusing, ambiguous, or simply unhelpful results. I shall keep my questions simple.

First is the tried and true "3DS in Gamestudio". How can I get my models and bone based animations from 3DS Max into Gamestudio?
If I have to import into MED, I want to keep my bones.


Second, is there a good method of moving a character in relation to the camera in third-person? (IE: If I press left, the character will move to the camera's left.)

Third, I want my character to be able to run on walls and ceilings. How can I get my character to 'attach' himself to them?
I was looking at the ol' Kingdom Hearts movement script (and modifications of it) which use distance_from_ground or something. I was thinking of the same thing, but instead of just the ground, to make it in any direction, and upon any object.
But this would also mean changing the character's orientation depending on the angle of the ground/walls...

have a look at the site's workshops and tutorials first.

I'll I've found in those has been non-conclusive. I've seen links to pages that don't exist, tools that don't work, and then no answers at all. The best tutorial out there leads me to think that it's impossible to use bone animation in Gamestudio. I really don't want to animate in MED if I don't have to.

My biggest problem is the first one. If I can't get that one, I can't experiment with the other two to figure them out.

for the first problem use FBX import/export

Ah, the FBX seems to work nicely, except that the mesh is no longer moving with the bones. I had this problem in 3DS Max as well, but it seemed to work whenever I had selected things in "attach" mode. After deselection though, they wouldn't stay attached...
I can probably figure this part out myself though.
Thanks for your help!

while importing be sure to UNcheck "convert to points animastion" and CHECK "bones" in import options.

Yeah, I did that. I think it's a 3DS Max problem. I'll try making the whole thing from scratch, and if it still doesn't attach right, I'll re-rig it in MED and hope the bones still animate right.

Hiya.

Quadraxas: If you have an exact, step by step, of how to animated in MAX, export/import FBX and have all bones, animation and skins attached...I'm sure that Tuah wouldn't be the only one eternally grateful.

I don't use max much, but I have found tutorials/help files on a LOT of stuff for 3DGS to be, shall we say, "swiss-cheese like". What I mean is, we get a nice overall shape and feel for the process in question, but there are a lot of holes in it to fall into.

The biggest hole I have is that my mesh and bones don't want to stay attached. xD

But yeah, a lot of tutorials automatically assume you know the basics, yet there are no tutorials on the basics.

ok ill make a step by step video of export/import a rigged and animated model using fbx format, from max to med.