-= Gametoast.com =-

ANDEWEGET wrote:Yep, that looks like it's the problem. Gonna have a closer look at it later.

Marth, I assume you used the Unit_template_beta? Did you maybe by accident key the effs and roots (not just the bones)?
This would cause such a problem.
When exporting animations I call a built-in function (.IsNodeAnimated()) on every model. If that returns true it means that the model has (and maybe had, I'm not 100% sure how the function works, I just know that until now it always delivered correct results) keyframes and thus needs to be exported.

I'm confused, most games that use Softimage know to dump the roots and effectors then arrange the hierarchy accordingly, for example an AT-RT I built for Jedi Academy is like this. I built a rig using constraints around the skeleton outside the hierarchy, animated and exported the plotted animations. While I'm certain the keys were plotted to the roots/effectors as well as the bones they still got dumped at compile time.

Maybe your exporter can be changed so that the roots and effectors are dumped and the IK chains are converted to FK using nulls similar to the dotXSI exporter?

The conversion from IK to FK shouldn't affect the animation since if I'm not mistaken since this game only accepts linear plotted animations anyway.

minilogoguy18 wrote:The conversion from IK to FK shouldn't affect the animation since if I'm not mistaken since this game only accepts linear plotted animations anyway.

"linear plotted"
If this means the animated bone moves directly from starting position to the next key with no acceleration, then no, it accepts curved animations.

When I try to import hex crafted infantry model, by tripider, it give me this error: Any chance to fix that?

Seems like tirpider didn't update the MATL MATD count... This happens if the long int after MATL (material list) does not match up with the number of MATDs (materials). So, most likely tirpiders fault.

Yep, that sounds like my fault...
Sorry about that.
I fixed it and the low1 (I missed that one as well) and sent you a link.

Another error, I found, when try export non animated model:

It's a problem with one of your materials. Make sure you only use Phong or Lambert and only have 1 image node connected to the phong shader's diffuse input. The phong shader should be connected to the material. There could be problems if there are more than one shader (and that one is not of type Phong or lambert).

So, I am having a problem with the latest version of ZE tools. Whenever I export props, they show up ingame and in SWBF Viewer just fine, but whenever I go into ZE, none of my objects are visible. As you move around them with the camera, you can tell that there's an object there, but the object is completely transperent. I had a feeling it was something to do with a bbox, but when I go into the exporter menu, the bbox commands are gone. Please help!

Do you have GeometryName = "yourmeshname.msh" under ClassLabel in the [GameObjectClass] section of your ODFs?

I has the same problem, before install last version of ZETools. So, make sure, you download last one.

All the odfs are set up correctly. The models worked just fine before, but I just went back into XSI to add to the models, didn't change the names at all, re-exported, and that happened.

Could you take a screenshot of one of the material PPGs for a prop?

PPG?

The floating property window.

The last version should have fixed it.
Best do a complete reinstall by deleting the old folder before unzipping the archive.

Here is another one issue, I found: in some reason, I can't import soldier lowrez animation. There is no error lines, but it just not imported...

No lowrez animation at all? Or does just a single one not work?

Been a while since I posted here...I really like the new updates!
I re-download tried to export player models again. When I do, I always get this error: Since I found '.py', I read up on this part of "Frequently Asked Questions" I'm positive I installed to that location.
Here is a picture of the export. Thanks for the help!

Yes, that's no 'wrong directory error'.
There should be a log file in C:\\Users\\<user>\\Autodesk\\Softimage_modTool_7.5\\Addons\\XSIZETools\\, could you upload that? It might shed a bit more light onto the problem.