How To: Make Leaderheads! Ekmek's Guide

[Ekmek]

Problem solved.

post how. i need to add it to trouble shooting

 

[Nitram15]

I deleted the all NiAlphaProperty in the non-alpha meshes. I only kept in those meshes, what's textures uses alphachannel.

 

[NovaSilisko]

No matter how many times I look at the tutorial I can't stop my model from doing this...

Anyone know what's wrong?

Note that I'm using Max, not Blender.

 

[Ekmek]

I'm not up on max but did you import two skeletons at the same time?

Did you nifswap?

 

[NovaSilisko]

Yeah. I used nifswap. Is it normal for the LH to appear perfectly fine in nifskope and then completely explode ingame?

 

[Ekmek]

Yeah. I used nifswap. Is it normal for the LH to appear perfectly fine in nifskope and then completely explode ingame?

yeah it happens. if you attach an animation to it in nifskope you'll see what will happen in game.

 

[NovaSilisko]

I did that and the animation works fine.

A side problem: the edited hat model, if attached just by itself will flicker and have strange lighting effects on it(it does this when the model has burst too but it's less noticable because the rest of the model has turned into a pile of dead polygons)

 

[Ekmek]

does that hat's nifskope material properties look the same as a firaxis nif?

 

[NovaSilisko]

It's basically an edited Churchill hat, only the model itself is changed.

 

[Ekmek]

maybe posting the nif will help

 

[NovaSilisko]

Here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/575558/samhouston.rar

 

[Ekmek]

man,

i don't know if thtas what max does or what but it looks like a mess in there. I can see what I can do. I'll probably import into blender and see what can be salvaged. it may take a day or a few

 

[NovaSilisko]

I only barely edited the default Churchill file - I just replaced his mesh with my own and changed the textures.

EDIT: Wait, are you looking at sam.nif? That's the temporary file I put in for testing, winston_churchill.nif is the correct one!

 

[Vortilex]

Blender has decided to stop giving me the .nif import option. Anyone know why? There must be a file I'm missing.

 

[Ekmek]

reinstall following the steps in the first post

 

[Vortilex]

Okay, thanks

 

[NovaSilisko]

By the way, these are the export settings I was using.
(If you didn't catch it before, sam.nif is the temporary file I nifswapped from)

 

[cool3a2]

It's been a while since worked on leaderheads with 3ds max. When I did last time, I had no luck to get the plugin your are using working for export. I mean, you definately need it for import, but when using it for exporting, I got nothing working. Instead, there is another plugin used for export. Search for a tutorial written by ploeperpengel, here in the tutorial section. There you'll see how you can export with 3ds max properly. The only problem is, that the plugin I am speaking about, works only for 3dsmax 7 and 8 (maybe 6). AFAIK there is still a thread for 'my' plugin in the c&c main forum (you know, where people are supposed to ask questions if there is no tutorial about their topic available).
Also, I noticed that Ekmek does a different nifswap then I do. At least, I think so. I think Ekmek swaps some nodes, too, while I am only swapping meshes. Do it the way described in ploeperpengels tutorial.

Note: when working on units, your plugin might be okay.

 

[NovaSilisko]

Despite my best efforts of trying to fix the LH myself, I have failed. Ekmek, you are my last hope. Good luck, and godspeed.

 

[Ekmek]

Despite my best efforts of trying to fix the LH myself, I have failed. Ekmek, you are my last hope. Good luck, and godspeed.

it i sreally messed up. but I have a few questions:

1) did you try unchecking the skin modifier? I think that add partitions.

2) Why did you pick churchill? that LH has a lot of problems from the get go.

3) What model changes did you make. It looks like the hat mostly. I can save that part easy.

4) what's wrong with the Sam Houston in the DB?