I hope I´ll have some time today to play around with it. I´ll give you feedback than.

the engine shutdown crash probably happens because the plugin and the engine didn't get compiled with the same directx sdk. i will find out which sdk the engine uses and try it with that one then.

i am looking forward to see some screenshots!

I get a crash in ent_loacseconduvset(e3, e4), each mesh has 1870 faces.. any ideas?

Code:

---

var video_mode = 8;

plugindir = ".";
dllfunction ent_exportmesh(entity, filename);
dllfunction ent_importmesh(entity, filename);
dllfunction ent_loadseconduvset(entity1, entity2);



//----------------------------------------------------------------------------- mtl_lightmap
bmap bmap_lightmap = "lightmap.dds";
bmap bmap_plantlightmap = "tower_lightmap.dds";

material mtl_lightmap
{
	skin1 = bmap_lightmap;
	
	effect=
	"
	texture mtlSkin1;
	texture entSkin1;

	technique t0
	{
		pass p0
		{
			Texture[0]=<mtlSkin1>;
			Texture[1]=<entSkin1>;
			
			// mix light map with dynamic lighting 
			TexCoordIndex[0] = 1;
			ColorArg1[0] = Texture;
			ColorOp[0] = AddSigned;
			ColorArg2[0] = Diffuse;
			
			// apply lighting to texture
			TexCoordIndex[1] = 0;
			ColorArg1[1] = Texture;
			ColorOp[1] = Modulate2x;
			ColorArg2[1] = Current;
		}
	}
	";
}


material mtl_plantlightmap
{
	skin1 = bmap_plantlightmap;
	
	effect=
	"
	texture mtlSkin1;
	texture entSkin1;

	technique t0
	{
		pass p0
		{
			Texture[0]=<mtlSkin1>;
			Texture[1]=<entSkin1>;
			
			// mix light map with dynamic lighting 
			TexCoordIndex[0] = 1;
			ColorArg1[0] = Texture;
			ColorOp[0] = AddSigned;
			ColorArg2[0] = Diffuse;
			
			// apply lighting to texture
			TexCoordIndex[1] = 0;
			ColorArg1[1] = Texture;
			ColorOp[1] = Modulate2x;
			ColorArg2[1] = Current;
		}
	}
	";
}


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------- main
entity* e1;
entity* e2;

entity* e3;
entity* e4;

function main()
{
	wait(3);
	level_load("empty.wmb");
	wait(1);
	
	vec_set(sky_color, vector(250, 175, 75));
	
	vec_set(sun_angle, vector(160, -35, 0));
	sun_light = 20;
	
	vec_set(camera.x, vector(300, 0, 200));
	camera.pan = 180;


	
//	// example 1
//	
	// load model with texture uv-set
	e1 = ent_create("landscape.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	e1.material = mtl_lightmap;
	
	// load model with light map uv-set	
	e2 = ent_create("landscape_lm.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	
	// generate and assign a new mesh with both uv-sets
	ent_loadseconduvset(e1, e2);
	ent_remove(e2);
	
	// save mesh with both uv-sets for faster reuse
	ent_exportmesh(e1, "landscape_lm.mesh");
	
	////////////////////////
	
	e3 = ent_create("plant.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	e3.material = mtl_plantlightmap;
	
	// load model with light map uv-set	
	e4 = ent_create("plant_lm.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	
	// generate and assign a new mesh with both uv-sets
	ent_loadseconduvset(e3, e4);
	ent_remove(e4);
	
	// save mesh with both uv-sets for faster reuse
	ent_exportmesh(e3, "plant_lm.mesh");

---

if a model pair causes a crash i would need it for investigation.

does anyone else have crashes? (except the one when closing the engine!)

(both models need the same amount of faces, the vertex positions have to be exactly the same and the corresponding faces must have the same vertex order. maybe i forgot some check to avoid a crash if one of these isn't the case.)

...
btw. you can comment out all export and import functions since they probably aren't needed anymore.

No crashes here, as I still haven't tried my own models.

Currently having trouble getting my 2 models out of max. For example, I've got 2 mapping channels, the first one with the normal UV, the second with another UV. But max2mdl seems to only export models with map channel #1. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, as I'm very new when it comes to baking levels. If someones got a solution for it, please post(I think earlier it looked like Mabyenew had no problem exporting with this?).


Edit:

Got the mesh exports working! Turns out to export as a different map channel, you have to UVW Mapping modifier, and select your map channel there. This is very simple and quick.

Anyways, i'm getting the same error as Jetpackmonkey when I try to combine my 2 meshes thru script. Basically a problem with the "loadseconduvset", then after that error, there is one with the "ent_importmesh". After running, the model has it's normal tiling textures, but with a bunch of it's faces shaded black here and there.

Code:

---

  str_for_entfile(tempstring,my);
 //str_cpy(aemo2, tempstring);



 if(str_cmp(tempstring,"YY_MAINCLIFF.MDL") == 1)
 {

//	// example 1
//	
//	// load model with texture uv-set

//	// load model with light map uv-set	
	e2 = ent_create("l_maincliff.mdl", nullvector, 0);
//	
//	// generate and assign a new mesh with both uv-sets
	ent_loadseconduvset(my, e2);
	ent_remove(e2);
//	
//	// save mesh with both uv-sets for faster reuse
///	ent_exportmesh(e1, "landscape_lm.mesh");
//	
//	
//	
	//ent_remove(my);

// ent_importmesh(my, "l_maincliff.mesh");
}
 

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how does the error message exactly look like?

are you sure you don't mix up my beta popups with crashes? i stupidly used the error() function for popups but if it is no error it says "(this is no error message!)" at the bottom.

there probably is something wrong though if you get black triangles and i would have to investigate that with your models.

My first screen with ventilator's mesh-plugin


Lightwave



A6-Engine

A dream comes true...
Looks like a night-shift for me.

hm... i did some tests with messing up the second model (moved some vertices around so that the correct triangles won't be found on the second model) and the algorithm seems to be quite forgiving. i didn't get any crashes. just the light map was wrong then on those triangles.

jetpack_monkey's test model worked for me and william's model seemed to work too but he forgot to send me the light map so i couldn't check if it displays correctly. he had overlapping areas in the light map uvs though which probably won't give good results.

jetpack_monkey's test model:

This only works with 6.6* [private-beta] right?

I can't wait to work with it, although I probably won't be able to since I don't have any way for generating the lightmaps...