I don't know where to post this. Like with MED and that there's an option to create vertices merely by clicking in the views, how do you do this (and build faces based from these vertices)? There doesn't seem to be a way to create vertices. All I want to do is check to see if Blender solves the UV mapping issue I have with MED that's preventing me from doing anything beyond very simple things with 3D.

in edit mode and vertex select mode:

ctrl + left click = create vertex

if you don't want that vertices get connected with edges then deselect the newly created vertex (with [a] key) before creating another one.

by selecting 3 or 4 vertices or 2 edges and pressing [f] you can create a face.


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yes, i think blender could solve your uv-mapping issue! you can scale uvs by entering numbers for example.

I don't like the interface of Blender all that much for making models with - I'm far faster and better with MED in this case. Is there a way I can make MED export to the format Blender uses so I can UV map the model in Blender then reexport it to MED again?

with the 3ds format you should be able to get med models into blender. there was a bug with blender's 3ds importer though and i don't know if it got fixed in the recent version. maybe you will have to convert the 3ds to obj with wings3d first. from blender you can export mdl7 then after you are done.

learning blender is worth it! after some practice it's possible to work much faster in blender than in med.

Blender seems to be crashing when I select multiple faces of my test subject. I first import the 3DS file I created with MED's export using the default settings - it appears the way I expected. I then switch to UV face mode, select one face, hold the control key down, then select a second face and wham - Blender crashes. Is this that bug? It's happening every single time.

blender usually is really stable for me.

can you upload your test model? then i could test if it crashes for me too.

Here's the details, as screenshots:

Screenshot #1 - before the crash
Before the crash, this is what I'm seeing. After finishing the import of the 3DS file, I'm here in about 3 to 4 seconds. I right-clicked on the face as shown. When I hold the control key and right-click on the face clockwise from here (or any face at that), I get this:

Screenshot #2 - after the crash
These are the crash details I'm getting. Zonealarm Pro pops up a notice saying of Blender trying to access dwwin.exe, which seems to be the error-reporting console (as I once denied it and the error reporting thing didn't come up and Blender just closed). It's happening every single time I do this.

This is my simple test subject, one of which MED's UV mapping system is making it tricky to process properly.

strange, it doesn't crash for me. works fine here... what graphics card do you use? do you use the latest drivers?

i think instead of [control] you have to hold [shift] to select additional faces! does selecting all faces ([a] key) work?

Holding shift works, but using control (as it is with other programs) causes the crash to happen. I use Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT as the video card. The drivers are those from the CD, otherwise never updated (but should be fairly recent). Pressing the A key works just fine. It's as soon as I right-click (this should normally be left-click) on something while holding the control key. Normally, when selecting multiple objects, it's the control key. The shift key is used to select a range.

It seems like everything is backwards in Blender. It's left-click to select things and control to add/subtract to the selection, not right-click and shift. It's often messing me up as all other programs have it the opposite of what Blender is using (and Blender doesn't seem to remember the settings every time which adds to the annoyance as snapping is disabled and that sort of thing.