How do I separate models that coincide?

[tangjinfeng]

I tried to convert the models from Medieval 2: Total War, and I managed to import them into Blender, but I was surprised to find that they were completely stacked meshes, and there was no way to keep them apart

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Can't you just drag the model around in the file? Alternatively just select the ones you don't want and hit delete.

 

[tangjinfeng]

Can't you just drag the model around in the file? Alternatively just select the ones you don't want and hit delete.

No, they are a mesh that cannot be moved alone, and looks like a character with another head and body in the body... I don't know how to do it yet

 

[Jarmrik]

Upload it, just to have a look and see what I can do.

 

[tangjinfeng]

Upload it, just to have a look and see what I can do.

Hello! He looked like he had several layers of faces stacked, and I didn't know if there was a quick way to separate them

 

[Jarmrik]

I ve never seen such a unit in Medieval2. Which faction is it from?

Anyway, I have no idea of the result you want: which one is the good one? The dds you furnished with your blend doesn t apply to the model. I have a pink texture.
Can you post a picture of your model in TotalWar?

 

[tangjinfeng]

I'm mistaken, he's actually from the Empire Total War mod Mexico Unit Pack, probably from a Civil War mod at the earliest: Showing pink should be the wrong path, I can display the color normally, I converted it to nif to send it to you. Only one face is needed, because the modeling of each face is the same

 

[Jarmrik]

Ok, so the hat remains this way? What about the feet?

 

[tangjinfeng]

In both cases, there are full trousers and a pair of shoes, as well as rolled up pants and bare feet. I tend to keep the shoes, do you have a way to separate them?

 

[Jarmrik]

After an hour of surgery, I isolated the nude feet, the "under face" - this guy is not mexican but from an other planet - and the highest trouser (or it is the top of boots?).

Technically speaking, it just looks like the first nifswaps made a long time ago by mad scientists / great pionniers of Civ4 modding... The strangest is that the face I deleted was double: so it had three faces. Having a regiment of such soldiers would probably have crashed the game.
There is an untextured part under the belt.

Have a look to check if it s ok.
EDIT: Forget about it, I made something wrong. The rear part of the head has disappeared. I make an other attempt...

 

[Jarmrik]

Back to you with a little more knowledge and experience...
Is it what you wanted?

 

[tangjinfeng]

Back to you with a little more knowledge and experience...
Is it what you wanted?

Yes, it looks like it's handled very clean! Dear Jarmrik, what method or software did you use?

 

[Jarmrik]

Dear tangjinfeng... Basically, in no special order: two eyes, two hands, patience and will

Joking aside, before being able to deal with blender and its tricks, I used to work with old softwares like paint (the old one...). I was putting markers on the texture (color points, crosses, squares...) to locate the various parts of the mesh on the model. Some of the creations I uploaded have been skinned this way. It was long.
Now I know a little about UV and understand a little more how blender works, I found a faster way to execute my original method which will certainly help you in such a case.

Select your model, go on UV editing mode. In upper left corner, there s a button with two arrows named "UV sync selection". Pressing it allows you to select elements on UVmap and find the corresponding faces on your mesh.
I felt like I discovered the existence of dark matter when I found this function !

Hope it will help you.