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All this talk about Blender has me wanting to model something, it's been awhile. Hmm.... well I do need a couple new weapon models for Shattered Mirror... *evil laugh*

I'm a fan of Blender as well. Wonderful and under-appreciated software.

Here this is like V1.1. I changed a few things and lowered the poly count quite a lot (I think )

Pictures! : Comments, suggestions, criticism ?
If I won't change anything anymore, I'll give it a texture(which will be rubbish, because I suck at UV unwrapping etc. )
and try and get it ingame

Edit: how do I find out how many polys the weapon has ?

It's looking a lot better, nice job.

Strictly speaking, you're interesting in the triangle count, not the polygon count. As a polygon can have any number of sides, and what's important is how many triangles you have in your model.

It's really simple to find out how many triangles you have in your model. Step One, select your entire model in Edit Mode. Step Two, hit Ctrl + T to convert all quads to triangles. Step Three, look in the upper right corner of the window.

Ok, thanks I have 1665 triangles, is that ok or are that too many ? And what is the normal amount ?

1,665 triangles is perfectly fine; most of the weapon models in my mod have >1,800 triangles.

Ok, so now I have to texture it and get it ingame (I have no idea how to do it xD)

Edit: my first ever textures for a model (its very simple!)
Pic: Now I only have to get it ingame, but how do I get it ingame ? I know that I have to import it into XSI and then add hp_active and hp_fire and then...?

That texture looks pretty darn good for a first-timer!

Looking good!

Webster27 wrote: Now I only have to get it ingame, but how do I get it ingame ? I know that I have to import it into XSI and then add hp_active and hp_fire and then...?

1. Import into XSI
2. Reapply the texture to your image
3. Move the model to the origin/centre and add a hp_fire (importing the rifle template from Ande's tool helps get an idea of the scale, rotation and position of your model)
4. Export with Ande's tool

Whenever I try to import the model into XSI the error "Failed to save scene before system failure" comes up...

That's not really enough details. What did you do exactly?

I exported it from 2.49 as .xsi and opened Mod Tools, pressed import DotXSI and then chose it and pressed import, but then the error pops up and then i have to press ok and then it says "XSI has encountered a problem and needs to be shut etc.". The weird thing is, that it worked before, but now it doesn't anymore I hope that's enough info. Should I maybe redownload XSI ??

Can your other program export as .obj?

Yes, and I've tried that but the same error comes up.

What are all of the formats that Blender can export? XSI can import .emdl, .xsi, .dae (COLLADA), .xml (COLLADA), .obj, .iges, .igs, .eps, .ai, .bvh, .x, and .fbx.

From blenders website : But I think it may be more of a file error. I again tried to export as an .obj and import it into XSI but after fully importing the scene is still blank (this time the error didn't come up in XSI)

Create a new topic to carry on this discussion please

Ok, sorry FragMe.

Not sure if I showed this one yet, recently dug it off my old HDD and touched up some very small things...

SWEET!

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Nice.

The engines remind me of Mass Effect for some reason.