Thanks Again Finally figured out how to export the animations too.

Think it had something to do with me trying to export the animations i set up in the nla editor. When i set up an animation in the actions and set it to play just the action and not the entire time line in the nla editor and it worked fine.

Or something like that still a lil confused on what i did exactally just know its working now So thank you very much

the nla editor has to be switched from "action mode" to "nla mode" by clicking on the icon next to the armature name. then all strips will be evaluated and not only the active one. i have covered this in my updated tutorial.

gday guys!

i feel stupid asking this but how do i use the exporter?

i downloaded it, put it in blender's plugin folder and that didnt work so i put it in the include folder in the plugin folder. i went to user preferences and pointed it to that folder, i hit "re-evaluate script registration in menus", and it still didnt work. i went to scripts->update menus and it still didnt work. can someone please point me in the right direction?

thanks guys

julz

You should just have to place it in the plugins folder thats all that I did anyways... Then go to the scripts window click scripts>export and choose 3dgamestudio mdl7 (.mdl)

Do you have python installed on your computer? you may have to have that inorder for it to work. it can be found here

you have to copy it to .blender/scripts/ where all the other .py files are! a full python installation isn't necessary...

ooops yea thats what I meant to say..

heres the directory where mine is

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts

Its late forgive me

thanks guys will try that!

julz

works beautifully!!

just a thought: it would be really nice to be able to save baked soft-body animations in the vertex animation

this is wonderful. i love using blender and this exporter makes it SO easy to use with gstudio. thanks ventilator

julz

actually i thought exporting soft body animation should work but i have never tested it.

since it doesn't work automatically i guess it would require converting soft body animation to shape keys or something like that. maybe there already is some script for that? i will look into it if i find some time...

Thanks a lot Ventilator

Blender is really in my opinion the best 3D oepn source and free modeler.
It's the main tool i use , more fast to use than 3DSMAX for me and
really powerfull and complete.

Thanks again , i'll try it soon.