export the animated model separately with the other exporter.

add the property "substitute" and specify the filename of the previously exported model. the object won't get exported then but only be referenced in the $$m file.


you mean export_gs_$$m.py? i changed the filename to export_gs_map.py.

yikes, thats a little... inefficient you ever consider working with appended files?

EDIT: i feel like an asshole asking aobut all these free features and complaining, your work already is very appreciated.

what do you mean with appended files?

the "substitute" option did the trick for me. i am not sure how to solve the animation thing in a better way. i think if you have a level filled with different animated character models then always exporting all models and all animations could take a while. it would have to be cached somehow. the animations only exported again if something changed...

i know that the exporter isn't really finished. after it did what i needed i lacked the motivation to polish it. polishing a program often is very boring and uninteresting work. ...and for myself it's no problem to add new features on the fly in case i need anything.

well, if you go to file, you can append or link other objects, and what you could do is just have it so that upon export you can select if you want outside (linked) to export, or just models from the current level.

sounds like a good idea. i am not sure how linking works from the python side of things but i will look into it when i redo the exporter for blender 2.5.

did you get the passable flag to work?

havent checked it yet, since all i was doing until I got a reply was making a default action to make the object passable.

thanks for looking into it. If i had money right now i'd donate since this is really an amazing contribution. cant wait until we can directly compile wmb's from blender, I wonder if its possible for pro users to manually set up a bsp system, in blender, using the structs predefined in the wmb description, not that I have pro, but it would be interesting to see.

I can't wait.

Ok, does this work for GMAX as well? Well if not I suppose I can try to learn how to use Blender again... But its gonna take a while since I'm still learning A7. Any alternatives to having characters without this for now?

No, this is blender only. Sorry.

ventilator, you mentioned that one can export a model with 2 skins already.

I fail to do so, probably, the skins have to be attached in blender in a way that I don't know.