Mineral wrote:Is the model complete and ready for export? Or are you just doing test-exports to see how it looks ingame?
In both cases, if you continue to run into issues with exporting, i can have a look and do it for you;
Anant is just trying to view his 1p cockpit in the editor as he's working basically, so can see what issues he needs to fix etc.
I've already done a basic export and coding of the jet with all moving parts etc, just needs full LODs and cols and final coding, as well as it's finished 1p model and textures finishing up etc.
anantdeathhawk wrote:Hey,
I tried the export and it came out like this, your tutorial you posted a few pages back helped, but i didn't understood much.
Tell me what i did wrong?
Your almost there, most of what you are doing is correct!
Your main issue is materials/textures. It's showing up with the funny red/green checker texture as it can't find the textures it's looking for and that's the "Missing Texture", texture hehe.
Right now it's looking for the textures on my PC's path, as you haven't updated the material in the export scene to be in your path. You don't actually need to update the texture paths for them to work however, the main issue is it's looking for them in the "pr_repo_edit" mod which is my main mod I use for working in, which you can see in at the bottom of the screen at
2:34 it giving red error messages when you load your export for those missing texture paths, in that mod, and on E:
You can fix this by as I said, updating the material texture paths in the Max Export Scene to be what they are on your PC in the "pr_edit" mod, or what I would suggest and is far easier, is just add the "pr_repo_edit" mod to your list of mods in the bottom of the export setup, which you go into at
48secs.
That, however, will only fix the texture paths for the main 3p textures that are already setup etc.
For your 1p cockpit, you will need to apply the dummy material (Mat ID 4) I've made for it:
You will need to read this tutorial to be able to learn how to work with this material setup, although you can skip most of it since I've already setup the materials etc, although I would still recommend reading all of it at some point but the main sections you need to read is just "
Part 2. Material ID Assignment" just to see how to apply the dummy material to the cockpit model, but "Part 3. Transparent Materials" might also be useful too later on if/when you come to do cockpit glass etc, but not right now.
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/showth ... p?t=117705
Also if all objects have the same Multi/Sub-Object Material applied to them, you shouldn't get that "Attach Options" window at
24secs and if you do, you should check your material assignments again but you also want to go with the first option, "Match Material IDs to Material", but it's buggy, normally doesn't work and you're best off using Multi/Sub-Object materials for this reason as then you manually assign Mat IDs and then it can't screw them up for you, you can only do that yourself
anantdeathhawk wrote:1. Do i have to make canopy glass for 1p?
2. What more has to be modelled for 1p?
Thanks!
1. Humm, I've probably talked about this in this topic already somewhere, don't have the time to go back and find it thou. But ye, basically there are two schools of thought on this, vBF2 cockpits generally don't have any 1p glass, and just have them open up to the elements. PR models do tend to have 1p glass, but ye, some look better than others. The biggest issue is having a large texture for them, as that can eat up quite a bit of texture space/mem.
I would recommend you make 1p glass, however, and we UV it to a common glass texture but we can decide on how we UV/texture it later after you've made it.
2. Can't recall the issues, I would suggest going back through the thread and seeing what issues have been pointed out before and also just looking at the model yourself in the editor and max, and seeing if you can spot any errors or improvements that can be made
Keep up the good work, can't wait for this to be finished, so close now!
