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NWA 747

NWA 747

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Does it matter what rendering engine is used when creating and exporting objects in Blender? I have noticed that all the different rendering modes are different when it comes to texturing. Ever since I started with blender, I have used the Cycles Render engine and I have noticed that whenever I export an object, my textures are not exported with it. Do I need to used the Blender Game engine?

And would it be possible for us to have a Blender sub-forum for quick and easy access to all things blender related? :)
 
Rendeing in blender will do nothing for the sim. So wht you see in blender is not what you will see in the simulator.

Blender renders are only applicable to renders within an engine designed for it. FS uses a specific render engine for its production.
 
Ok, then that is not my problem.

No matter what I try, Blender will not export textures with the model in any format except for .3DS. However, using .3DS does not work as MCX does not properly read the model and it looks like this:



When it should look like this:



And it gives me this:

9:01 PM M3DSReader Information Finished reading objects
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleaning object: MSP Ground
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
9:01 PM AllObjectReader Information Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Information Starting generating OpenGL arrays...
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Information Finished generating OpenGL arrays
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_01.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_02.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_03.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_04.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_05.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_06.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_07.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_08.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_09.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_10.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_11.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_12.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_13.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_14.j
9:01 PM ObjectRenderer Warning Failed to load texture: mspgrnd_15.j
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If I try and export it as .OBJ, some of the polys do not show up and I get this from the log:

8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material None
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material None
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material None
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material None
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material None
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Unsupported element l
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material None
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.001
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.002
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.003
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.004
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.005
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.006
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.007
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.008
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.009
8:58 PM OBJReader Warning Failed to find material Material.010
(and the list goes on)
8:58 PM OBJReader Information Finished reading objects
8:58 PM ObjectRenderer Information Starting generating OpenGL arrays...
8:58 PM ObjectRenderer Information Finished generating OpenGL arrays
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Exporting as .X does not work at all and when I export as Collada, the model imports properly without distortion but it only exports the geometry without any textures at all. I have tried almost every tutorial I could find and nothing wants to work. Its becoming very frustrating. :|
 
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Yea, texture exporting from blender isnt as clear cut for .dae as you would think. I am still working on it. On a positive side, you can just plug in the texture files you used into mcx when the model is loaded, not sure how the mapping will hold up. I was trying to figure out how to export textures with the dae file but I got sidetracked and never went back. This thread reminded me and I am looking again.
 
Is there a certain way to export as .3DS to avoid distorted models? Currently it is the only format that will at detect that the object has been textured. I know its not MCX at fault here because I get the same issue when importing the same model into gmax.

Edit: Ok the distortion problem has been solved. I had to join all of my layers into one object.

More: Now the scaling is messed up and I get an unhandled exception when I try and plug the textures into MCX. I am using the latest dev version.
 
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Hi,

The problem with the 3DS export is the length of your texture names. The 3DS format can only store up to 12 characters (old 8.3 naming convention). So that is why the texture names are truncated and ModelConverterX can't find them.

I am not sure why the other formats don't work.
 

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