so, im a step forward now but i get a damn error everytime i try to export something:
http://dev.d3jedi.com/killmachine/error_fuck.jpg
can anyone plz tell me what that means?
[EDIT]it's tooo big.... >kat<Remove the large number and period in the model name. Try that!
the modelname is saber01.mb ... the large number is todays date and a random number ... i dont know y this filename is generated ...
This is doc I wrote on the dark mod forums, maybe something here will help you.
I'm only as far as getting the character ito doom, importing the animations, and cycling throiugh them in doom. YOu need to write AI scripts to actually get your character to behave like you want it to and play it's animaitons at the right time of course. As a humble modeler I know nothing about that.
Anyway, to get it into doom, you save you character in Maya as a .mb file. It has been boned and weighted obviously, and the rig has to have a bone called origin at the 0,0,0 world origin, and the skeleton has this as the parent bone.
Then you have to write the definition file.
First you need the defintion file to use doomEdit to change the .mb files to an md5mesh and an md5anim for each different animation you make.
THe first section of the definition file deals with this exporting, here is a sample one:
Code:
export mymodel {
options -sourcedir models/mymodels/mymodel
-destdir models/md5/mycharacter/mymodel
This first part is the source directory where you saved you .mb files, and the destination dir you want doomedit to write the md5 files to.
Code:
mesh hammer.mb
anim idle.mb -dest stand
anim surprise.mb -dest sight1
anim walkF.mb -dest walk1
anim attack1.mb -dest swing1
anim attack2.mb -dest swing2
anim stepback.mb -dest head_pain1
anim attack3.mb -dest spit_attack1
anim RunF.mb -dest fastwalk
}
this second part is what you want the md5 files to be called. The first line is your base mesh in the stance pose, and all the diffent animations you did are in the following lines. the '-dest' after them is used to change the name, so on the bottom line the .mb file 'runf' animation is saved as 'fastwalk.md5anim'
that's all you need in the definintion file to get it in the game. I'd call this definiton file 'mymodel.def'
Then, in DoomEdit, do to the console and type
Code:
exportmodels mymodel
and this should convert all the maya files to md5 files.
First of all though you need the correct environment variable set, pointing to the maya directory. Remember you had the same problem with getting Deep Exploration to read maya files?
Right click on 'my computer' icon on your desktop, or in start menu, right click 'poperties' whuch take you to the system tab, then go to advanced tab, environment variables, and open it up.
Add a varible called MAYA_LOCATION with the variable pointing to where you have maya installed (this depends on which maya version you have) for maya 6 you don't inlude 'bin' at the end and for maya 5.x you do, I have one of each just incase, maya should have written it;'s own variable where you installed it, but sometimes that one doesn't work.
then you need to get the MayaImportx86.dll which is included in the SDK download and place it in the doom base directory.
Until you follow those steps the exportmodels command will not work.
There is more to be written in the definition file after this, but see if you can get this far first, and then I tell you the rest.
and some other points...
where did you place the mayaimort.dll - in the doom/base folder? What exactly did you type into doomedit for those files I sent - exportmodels nameofDefFile?
Where did you get that mayaimport.dll, was it from the latest verison of the SDK and is it the right one for your version of Maya?
alright, the maya_location path isnt there ... there is just a path variable that points to the bin folder ... i have maya 6.5 installed btw ...
i will try that first ...
i got the mayaimport.dll from iddevnet, i will also try to get a newer version ... i put the file to the bin folder of maya and not to my base folder ... i will also try that ...
all that bone stuff and so on, i wont be able to do that ... i just started workin with maya and only know a few modeling tools like extrusion
...
but i will report back to u when i tried all this ...
this is btw my def file:
Code:
export saber01
{
options -game d3j -sourcedir models/saber01 -destdir models/md5/saber01
mesh saber01.mb -dest saber01
}
model saber01
{
mesh models/md5/saber01.md5mesh
}
the model has no bones whatsoever and no animations ...
edit: ok, didnt work ... got the same error with both the boned model and with the unboned ... i changed the enviroment variables and excluded the bin path ... do i need to restart my pc to get this to work?
edit2: i restarted ... same result ... it could have something to do with the models itself i think ...
It hasn't. I just looked at your error imgae you posted, and one of the guy on the dark mod team is getting exactly the same error as you. I even sent him my models and def files, which extract fine for me, and he gets the same error.
I worked through everything with him, and as far as I can see his doom setup is exactly the same as mine. I have no idea why he is getting the crash, and can't even export models which work for me.
If we work it out, you'll be the first to know, since it's almost certainly the same problem.
Unless (and this is a long shot) it's something to to with the directory you have doom in. I notice you have it in c:/doom_III instead of c:/doom3 like me. THat's the only difference I can think of.
To check it would mean a complete reinstall though)
I can't contact the other guy right now to ask him which directory he has doom in, but when I do I will post it here. Maybe you should hold off reinstalling till then)
