Support Frustrated Wannabe Developer(Newbie) has a Base Maker problem

[Hlynkacg]

Still it seemed a lot less scary than the opening screen in blender!

Ahh yes, the infamous "BlenderShock" effect :blink:

One of these days I need to do a "Orbiter for BlenderNoobs" tutorial.

 

[Spacecowboy48]

Problem with meshes

Hey Guys,

I'm having some further problems getting my base up and running. I created a mesh in wings 3d and exported it to meshmaker to make it usable in Orbiter, but I get an error message from Meshmaker when I convert it. It spits out an output.msh file which I rename and put in my Orbiter mesh directory. But then Orbiter Base Maker won't recognize the file when I go to add it to the base. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? I am including the debug.txt file that Meshmaker put out.

 

[paddy2]

There is a Wings3D exporter available which converts a "wings" file direct into a "mesh"

http://www.orbithangar.com/download.php?ID=3901

Install this add on into your wings program and it will export a .msh.

Depending on how you have made your UV map you may still have to convert your Texture to a .DDS.

Using Notepad just alter the file names at the very end of the .msh file so they are he same as those files you put in the Textures directory.

 

[Spacecowboy48]

Meshes

Thanks Paddy, I'll try that. Can you tell me how the UV map thing works in Wings 3D? I've been looking for a good explanation of how UV mapping works on the Net, but without much luck.

 

[paddy2]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj3DFF06Pfs

Is a good one to start with.

One thing which did not get explained too well ( or I missed it) Is that you can select a single face and UV map that by itself. Ideal if you have many parts of the UV map on a single given area of the texture bit map. i.e. draw one set of windows/console/metal plate and have 2 or 3 UV maps from different faces all covering the same area.

 

[Spacecowboy48]

So what you (and the youtube tutorial) are saying is that I can take my mesh, apply a texture to it and export it as a single .msh entity that will be recognized by Orbiter and Orbiter Base Maker? That would be great if I could learn how to do it.

---------- Post added at 11:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:45 PM ----------

YAY!! It's working now. I just have to tweak the texture colors.

 

[paddy2]

Good to hear it. Keep us posted. Sure there must a few that use Wings3D that will be interested.