export_3dgs_mdl7.py ~45kb

finally the beta version with support for exporting animations as bone animation!

read the instructions at the beginning of the script. i think it's important that the armature and its mesh have the same origin and transformation (see the mesh&armature part of the tutorial in my signature). please report any problems!

the script still isn't in a good shape but it seems to work for my models so i decided to release it.



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one thing i thought about recently... once the upcoming blender material nodes have a python api, i will experiment with compiling blender shader networks to hlsl code. at least for shader model 3 this should be possible. maybe it's out of my scope as a programmer though. in case this doesn't work out, some predefined customizeable (in blender) shader templates would be quite easy to add i guess.

Uhhh - a lifesaver!!! Thanks!

Dam di dam... *adds to his python script library*

sounds like a very good plugin! I will have to check this out.

thanks for sharing!

cheers

please download again!

i fixed a small bug. the skeleton very likely didn't display right in med when using the [world space] option (the bone animation itself should have worked correctly though even with the wrong looking skeleton).

i also added two small optimizations. bone animation matrices get only added if they are no identity matrices, animation vertices only get added if they are different to the main frame. this can make the model file a bit smaller.

Great job ventilator, you're awesome!

Awesome, Ive been working with blender alot latley. So im sure this will eventually come in handy once I work thru your animation tut.

I just figured out the uv mapping which is totally awesome compared to md2/six side mapping in med. Still havent figured it out entirely... Need help with understanding the use of pins more properly when doing lscm unwrap feature... Anyhow enough rambling.

I really appreciate all the work youve done...

very nice! i was asking myself wich 3rd party modelling program does support bones and exports it right in gamestudio format. now i know that at least blender does.

great work ventilator, as always from your side. keep it up!

wich other modelling programs export bones right?

Yeah, thank you a lot!
I have waited for a mail for betatests, and didn't search for the post here.. I'm sorry
Some bug reports will come in future (if there are bugs), but please don't expect them very soon. We first have to come into the new blender armature system here..

please download the script again. omitting identity bone matrices didn't seem to be a good idea. it could lead to problems in some cases. i have to think about this feature again but it isn't really necessary anyway.