| Rigged Meshes from Blender Won't Work [message #54933] |
Thu, 05 November 2009 08:12  |
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From my website:
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A Sad Day for Fable Modders
November 5th, 2009
This morning I made another attempt to export a rigged mesh from Blender to import to FE, and the attempt failed. I first imported the yew bow mesh from Fable into Blender; the directX importer does not import skeletons or bone weights, but I put together a makeshift bow skeleton and weighted the verts on the bow. When I exported, I checked to make sure the weights had been exported by opening the .x file and looking through it, and indeed the weights were there. I copied all the mesh and weight data (not the skeleton data, just the weights), and pasted it over the mesh and weight data of the exported bow from fable, but when I imported it to FE I got an error “tried to write over write protected data” or something of the sort. I’ve messed around with the .x file a bit, including replacing the XSkinMeshHeader or whatever with that of the original (determines max bones per vert, max weight per vert and such), but nothing seems to work.
From that experiment, I conclude that rigged meshes exported from Blender simply are not compatable with FE, and a new exporter must be written (probably, I suppose that it could have been FE or perhaps some other issue with the way I designed the bow, but most likely it simply did not like the way the bone weights were exported) for Blender to export Fable-Compatable directX files.
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"All of the work, and none of the play, will surely provide for a speedy decay"
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| Re: Rigged Meshes from Blender Won't Work [message #54937 is a reply to message #54936] |
Thu, 05 November 2009 15:33  |
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As I said, I didn't use the exported bones, just the weights, but yes, I understand that there are different templates. The template for mesh and materials and everything I've had to use so far has worked pretty well, but apparently it doesn't like that for bone weights.
"All of the work, and none of the play, will surely provide for a speedy decay"
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