Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
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Adler
Adler
Create units with OpenFX
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nonono
Chieftain
um, im having problems downloading OpenFX... after the download, it give me a choice to extract to a regular folder or save it to a compressed file....i click on the save it to a compressed file one, and it says " system cannot find file specified "... can anyone help me out here?
Tzar Sasha
Tzar of Nowheresville
Thanks I'll give it a try after I get the grass cut.....Adler17 said:
nonono
Chieftain
.....can anyone help me out??
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The Great Apple
Big Cheese
Firstly, welcome to CFC! May your ozone never be the same again... (sorry, bad pun)nonono said:
Secondly, make sure you have downloaded the right thing. I almost downloaded the source code the first time. It should be a zipped folder, with a file called setup.exe in it. Run this file, and I think it's fairly self-explanitary. If you are doing this... then... errr... I don't know....
BlueNine
Chieftain
Hi, I'm new to this unit making malarkey and I'm having problems using SBB V1.04. Where to I point it for the Main Source Folder and Second Source Folder? I've tried using the SW.pcx for the main and my SW00~SW16.bmp as second to no avail. Am also losing a LOT of quality on .gif and/or .bmp to .pcx but I'll relook over the parts about palette's to try and fix that myself.
Anyway heres a pic of my current project in its horribly deformed low quality .pcx form :suicide:
Anyway heres a pic of my current project in its horribly deformed low quality .pcx form :suicide:
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Tzar Sasha
Tzar of Nowheresville
BlueNine said:
First off this is the OpenFX thread, but I'll answer your question anyway...
When I used SBB v1.04 (v1.06 is now available) I only used the main source folder. This is where you select any one of your bmp images that will make up your storyboard. To give you an example:
You are making a unit with 10 frames per direction. You need to either render from a 3d program or convert from another file source into bmp files (one for each frame of each direction). The bmps for each direction should go into the associated folder. The folders must be called N, S, E, W, SW, SE, NW, NE. These can be under another folder if you don't want them directly visible in your top level directory. Make sure your bmps are numbered with 0000 to 0009 (if you use the non win98 version for single units, you can have your bmps numbered with 0001 to whatever so long as you check the box before doing anything else.) After the bmps are in the correct folders and properly numbered open SBB. Point the main source folder to any one of your bmps in one of the eight direction folders. After you do that SBB will automatically read the images and fill in the generate storyboard file name. Press generate storyboard and you will get a bmp storyboard that will need to be converted to a pcx storyboard. This is where you need to pick a good pallete for your unit.
After you get your pcx storyboard, you will need to use flicster if you haven't already....
I hope this helps you... For more information and assistance with SBB I suggest going to the SBB thread. There is a lot more there than what I know...
nonono
Chieftain
Yeah, well i downloaded the thing and i go to extract the friggen files and it says no files to extract!!! I don't know what i'm doing wrong ):
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
Download it again, I would say the first download failed (I'm guessing you're on 56k/ISDN) A good free program to make sure the download works, which also accelerates the download, and allows you to pause it, can be found here: www.getright.comnonono said:
nonono
Chieftain
Umm.... I think theres something wrong with my computer.... I went to go download that getright or whatever and the same thing happened! Is there a way that i can post a screenshot of the download window? Sorry if i'm bothering you...
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
No problem.
I don't know what you know, so I'm going to explain the whole process: Press print screen, then open up paint or some other graphics package, paste, and save as a .jpg. Then, at the bottom of the page where you post there is a manage attachments button, press this, find your file, and upload it. If the file is too big for this (over 500k) press the upload file button at the bottom, then link to the file in your post.
Also getright has a special download for people who can't download it... which is smaller: http://www.getright.com/setuploader.html
I don't know what you know, so I'm going to explain the whole process: Press print screen, then open up paint or some other graphics package, paste, and save as a .jpg. Then, at the bottom of the page where you post there is a manage attachments button, press this, find your file, and upload it. If the file is too big for this (over 500k) press the upload file button at the bottom, then link to the file in your post.
Also getright has a special download for people who can't download it... which is smaller: http://www.getright.com/setuploader.html
nonono
Chieftain
God...this is just way to complicated so i'll just tell what i did then i'll leave....I clicked on openFX on the first page...it took me to the website, and i clicked on one of the mirrors to download...it finished downloading and took me to the screen where you have the option of saving it or extracting it to a folder... i clicked on extract the regular folder option and clicked next to extract...I then get a window that says " no files to extract "..... btw, i have high-speed internet not dial-up....
Tzar Sasha
Tzar of Nowheresville
That's pretty much how I got my copy. Except that I prefer to save the file and open it later. Perhaps you might want to try to save it first, then use winzip to unzip the file.... Good luck. Hope you can get the program. We can always use more unit designers 
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
I think I've finally worked out how this works, but I have a question: Does anybody know how to stop it from adding hundreds of joints into the skeleton, wiping out what I've already done?
I was trying to build 2 models with the same skeleton (so I can use the same poses), but the 2nd model has the dodgy boolean skeleton (I hate spelling that word), so now I'm going to have to import it into the orignal, and reattach everything
EDIT: I love it when I'm wrong, just figured out a workaround
@Muffins: What is the Boolean bug you referred to in another thread? Just interested.
I was trying to build 2 models with the same skeleton (so I can use the same poses), but the 2nd model has the dodgy boolean skeleton (I hate spelling that word), so now I'm going to have to import it into the orignal, and reattach everything
EDIT: I love it when I'm wrong, just figured out a workaround
@Muffins: What is the Boolean bug you referred to in another thread? Just interested.
muffins
Lemon scented
Sometimes if I've got a large model, OpenFX will not 'boolean' so I have to save the object to be cut and the cutting object as a seperate model, open it and then do the cut. Sometimes when the newly cut object is re-introduced into the model it courpts the model (this is either the skeleton or multiple newly-created texture maps made for all the cut peices after booleanThe Great Apple said:
)I'm told that the new version of OpenFX has a load of bug-fixes but I'll think I'll wait until someone who has used the new version gives a verdict
muffins
Lemon scented
FELLOW OPENFX USERS!! Don't listen to all the non-believers who nay-say OpenFX over Blender ... OpenFX has ray-tracing!
I was thinking about making some civpedia pics for GoldFlash (for his mod) so I spent a whole day looking at ray-tracing.
Have a look
Don't listen to all the non-believers who nay-say OpenFX over Blender ... OpenFX has ray-tracing!I was thinking about making some civpedia pics for GoldFlash (for his mod) so I spent a whole day looking at ray-tracing.
Have a look
muffins
Lemon scented
All the objects in both pics and all the effects and rendering was done in OpenFX.
It's just a matter of giving stuff reflective or trasparent attributes in designer and then turning on the ray-tracing options in the render options pop-up box
It's just a matter of giving stuff reflective or trasparent attributes in designer and then turning on the ray-tracing options in the render options pop-up box
The third tutorial for OpenFX dealt with raytracing.
But Blender has a whole litany of particle effects, not post-processing. Blender also has some interesting texture based 3d effects, as well as beveling, which is interesting. Finally... Blender has no vertice limit.
But Blender has a whole litany of particle effects, not post-processing. Blender also has some interesting texture based 3d effects, as well as beveling, which is interesting. Finally... Blender has no vertice limit.
muffins
Lemon scented
I didn't actually read any of the tutorials ... I just *** cough *** looked at the pretty picturesNeomega said:
With hindsight, I wish that I had though. It would have saved me a lot of time
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
Can raytracing help with making units at all? Or is it just for making pretty pictures (which is a good enough reason)? I had a go with reflection, but I got too much pink reflected from the ground.
Also what exactly is raytracing, is it just a more accurate way of doing reflections and transparency?
Also what exactly is raytracing, is it just a more accurate way of doing reflections and transparency?
