Did you import your mesh from max to wed with fbx?

And how do you handle soft/hard edges?

Greets
Rackscha

I export them in .ase
I've recently noticed that the fbx format exports the smoothing groups as well which is good but unfortunately useless when I'm to import a second uv channel.
Let me explain:
When I export a mesh to game studio I export a part 1 which is formed by mesh + textures, and a part 2.
I use the part 2 to extract the second uv set with baked shadowmap.

If I use the ase format everything works fine.

If I use the fbx format it doesn't because it re-arranges the vertexes index differently or whatever, anyway it doesn't work.

As for the soft hard edges what do you mean? antialiasing?

No, i mean Normal interpolation as used for MDl models(cylinder as Model looks smooth while the same cylinder looks blocky as Wed Block).

EDIT: oh juts noticed that Shade-c is capable of using the second UV-set for shadowmaps. This way i might use only models and no level geometry imports.

well,you can try using "smooth" flag in WED,

As for normal interpolation you have to be able to export smoothing groups, for that the fbx format works decently. The ase format instead doesn't export smoothing groups at all and turns the whole mesh into a 1 big smoothing group.

But it's not that easy to get the desired results anyway, you wanna keep your geometry as much simple as possible, and keep an eye on your triangulations flow.

Infact this is exactly why you're not seeing me posting any new screenshots, I had to start from nearly the beginning, remodifing all my meshes and re-exporting them all.

For example if I had to apply a window to a house, I wouldn't extrude it internally cutting through the wall adding polygons, but I would create it externally as another detached mesh and placed it close the wall.
That way your wall is a quad.


Click to enlarge: http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1843/thequadthing.jpg

Do you get it?

year i get it

Well as long as i dont need stencil shadows, i might use the cutedge modifier from blender to cut the faces for sft and hard edges.

As far as i know, this technique (open mesh) broke the envmaping shader of gstudio, might retry it with shade-c.

If that works and doent have any side effects(okay no stencil but i can live with it^^) like bad colision for polycollision.

EDIT: We finally need proper smothing group support

Hey, quick question: can you use dynamic lights on terrains with shade-c? Sun light works great, but what about regular dynamic light emitted from entities?

No problem.
Works great(tested with normalmapping).

Only the sun works for dyn shadows, thats all atm

If I just include the things as written in the manual and then enter sc_setup(); everything in my game is very bright. just a normal project, i ahve an x1400 mobility radeon, very strange...

I'm not trying to "unnecessarily" bump this, BUT....are you still working on this???
-Just (desperate) curious.