Hope its the right forum to post.

Sorry conitec, but I "almost" hate the skin mapping procedure from MED.
And I was talking to a friend, and it seems that the material application procedure of 3dmaxstudio is a bit(or more than a bit) less complicated than MED skin mapping. HERE IS THE QUESTION:

If I skinmap my model in 3d studio max, export it to MED, will it come with the skinmap and stuff?

Maybe this has been asked before, sorry.

thanks

if you use fbx export from max and import it to med, it will come.

cool
any pros/cons about doing that? exporting a skinmapped model in 3ds to MED?

no pros respect to fbx import

but 3ds import has no animations,bones. 3ds files cant store them i think.

uv mapping generally seems ok with 3ds import.


but i always prefer fbx.

both fbx and 3ds, if i apply skinmapping/texture on them and then import to MED , will work fine?

therotically.

make sure your textures are either BMP PCX TGA or DDS (not sure about pcx)

well i extracted lots of(~55) models from hl2 cs:s tf2 etc. using fbx import, due to lack of models that i use to test my scripts.

it never failed on uv mapping part, actually %95 of models imported completely(aminations,bones,uvs etc.) without errors. Sometimes(happened 1 times) vertices are not completely applied to bones, and sometimes it creates some extra polygons(happened 2 or 3 times) and mesh tester of MED finds them easily so its not a problem.

never happened to me but some people gets some arkward shapes instead of their mesh sometimes, but i think it has a workaround too.

edit: learning to unwrap models in max is easier than you think.

ok ok..
the way i intend to do in 3ds max is , Ill model in MED, and would make a lot of groups, selecting the faces that will have different textures and Making them as diferent groups.
then i would import to 3dsmax and use the group select mode ( i dont remenber the real tool name) and then i would texture every group or part with different materials.
Once its done, i woul export to MED and hope that everything comes as skinned as I skinned in Max.

is it possible?

possible. and it is a painless process, grab a trial copy of max and try it yourself