Blender Exporting and Animation

[necdel]

Ok, I am no artists, but I created a tentacle monster in Sculptris, imported to blender, made rigging, did an animation, and exported it with blender2ogre. I did get an error with the exporter, something about OGRE not supporting vertices being on more than 4 bones. No clue how to fix this or anything yet, so not even sure if the animations will work in the engine. However, my mesh imported successfully into the engine, albeit rotated 90 degrees on the X axis. I believe this is an issue with the blender plugin though. From reading the other posts here, is there no way to define what frames my animations are on at the moment?

Just seen in the documentation that you guys weren't sure about the blender2ogre thing working for the engine yet. Thought I would go ahead and take the initiative to try and get it tested. It appears that it will work fine, for someone who knows a bit more about what they are doing with models and animations hah.

I can upload the blender file if anyone would like, or the files it exported. I only have like 5 hours of work total on the model (literally first mob model I have done myself). I was upset at first when i realized my monster had 60k vertices at first, had to go back and got it down to 3800, loosing all my time making it look nice in Sculptris

Here is a pic of it imported to the engine.

[StarFire]

[StarFire]

Vortex has kindly found another exporter that may work for your export.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=133&p=571#p571

[necdel]

[StarFire]

[necdel]

Awesome! So I did a new model today, kept the high poly around this time. Figured out how to do normal maps, texture, and all that jazz. So this is what I have ended up with so far.




Looks so much better with that normal map, thanks for that. I did give the other Ogre exporter a try that you mentioned, it did not work for me, it kept erroring out in blender. I went back and used the original one blender2ogre and set the -y like you suggested, it imported perfect into the engine, except my material isnt showing up. I am sure the material issue is on my side and not the engine. Will keep this thread updated until I get everything imported with animation.

*EDIT*

Ok the material imports fine... I didnt have it in the same folder with the model! Animation time now.

[SolarPortal]

cool, looks like it is going well
i look forward to the results

[necdel]

[SolarPortal]

finally blender to skyline has been solved. Thanks very much for all the information

To Get normal maps and higher specular, you can use the material editor to achieve this.
See this Doc: https://learn.aurasoft-skyline.co.uk/doku.php ... rialeditor

When working with skyline, you can quickly update your Model/Materials/Shaders/Textures in the scene without closing down by pressing this button with a SceneEntity Selected:

This is part of the Rapid Prototyping system that we are building for skyline.

All Assets the community creates is welcome, as we want skyline users to have something to play with in the engine without having to create their own until needed.

Good work

[ant0N]

using the FBX will greatly facilitate our work... look at how to integrate FBX in Gamestart3D http://gamestart3d.com/wiki/index.php?t ... _GameStart