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[Sparks Murphey]

Leafia Barrett, on 16 August 2013 - 04:48 AM, said:

So apparently there's not a single word anywhere in existence that explains how to make this not happen with any number, type, placement, size, or distance of light(s).

I have looked ****ing EVERYWHERE, and there's absolutely nothing.

Has your exposure control been accidentally messed with? If it's been set to an outdoor setting and you don't have a sun or similar in the scene, the lights may need to be hundreds or thousands of times more powerful to produce a visible result, though if you take all of the lights out, 3dsMax adds a default point light at the camera to light the scene with an intensity of "whatever is enough". The easiest way for this to accidentally happen in 3dsMax is to drop a sunlight or daylight system into the scene, click through the dialogue box that pops up that recommends changing the exposure settings automatically for you, and then delete the sunlight/daylight system, leaving the exposure settings still changed.

To find them, click Rendering -> Exposure Control. From the dropdown box immediately under the "Exposure Control" header, select "<no exposure control>", or just untick the "Active" checkbox. Alternatively, leave them on and add a daylight system to the scene to bring the overall light levels back up to a level that the render can represent them.



The other possibility I can think of is that you've got a material on there that your renderer can't interpret. I'm assuming you're using the default Quicksilver renderer for your viewports, though, so it would have to be something quite exotic since Quicksilver is pretty good at delivering something even if it doesn't understand everything. It's an unlikely reason, but if you want to test it, make a new primitive (like a box) and don't assign it a material at all. If it appears coloured and shaded, your problem is most likely in the material on the Jenner; if it's entirely black, your problem lies in the lighting system somewhere.

[Leafia Barrett]

Radical Roy, on 17 August 2013 - 04:29 AM, said:

Other things i was thinking about was if you had managed to flip the normals on the model, of if you simply needed to press ctrl+L in the viewport.

I have no idea what the hell this does, but it worked. Thanks.

[Leafia Barrett]

I'd really love to know where the hip joints are for the Kintaro, because I'll tell you where they aren't: in the game. The hip models are not in any part of any section of any game files included in Mechwarrior Online. I've looked through every folder, every compressed file, every everything, and nothing. The game doesn't even define where the hips are supposed to be placed in the model assembly file. It literally is not even mentioned anywhere in the model assembly. I have pored over the game files, and they are nowhere. They're not attached to any of the leg or pelvis/torso model parts either, I already checked that. They flat-out don't exist. I'm rather incensed by this, as I just spent the better part of a week turning this:



into this:



which meant pretty much recreating every single finger and knuckle from scratch, only to now find that the model isn't actually possible to assemble.

Edited by Leafia Barrett, 21 August 2013 - 08:08 AM.

[Heffay]

Are they using the hips from another mech? I know they share UV maps in the cockpits (for obvious reasons). It's possible that they are doing that with mech parts now too.

[Eleventor]

I am using Cinema4d, so how do i manage it with the Camo and the Joints to move the mech?!

First Test:

Edited by Eleventor, 23 August 2013 - 12:41 PM.

[Leafia Barrett]

Has anyone figured out where the animation files for the mechs' movements are, and how they can be used, if at all?

[NetoMX]

Anyone got a problem with the catapult texture? I don't like the color my mech got from the file:

https://www.dropbox....cq0/Catapult.7z

And the image file:

https://www.dropbox....k/catapult1.png

Thanks!

[Leafia Barrett]

wheeeeeeee
I got muzzle flash working. Note that the gun barrels themselves are rigged, so I can slide them backwards (recoil). The hands are fully articulated, too. Also note that I was a bit of a stupid and forgot to cap one of the energy hardpoints. And yes, that is a Sarah heart on the upper arm. :3

[Nauht]

Eleventor, on 23 August 2013 - 12:00 PM, said:

I am using Cinema4d, so how do i manage it with the Camo and the Joints to move the mech?!

First Test:

Something funny about that cannon placement....

[Eleventor]

Catapult, Catphract, Awesome (arm under the cocpit)

[Heffay]

Eleventor, on 27 August 2013 - 09:23 AM, said:

Catapult, Catphract, Awesome (arm under the cocpit)

Yes... yes. That is TOTALLY what I first saw...

To be honest, I thought it was a third leg...

Edited by Heffay, 27 August 2013 - 10:15 AM.

[Nauht]

Heffay, on 27 August 2013 - 10:14 AM, said:

Yes... yes. That is TOTALLY what I first saw...

To be honest, I thought it was a third leg...

Least it wasn't a yellow laser.

[Skye Storm]

I can't find the mech files....

[Heffay]

Skye Storm, on 30 August 2013 - 06:59 AM, said:

I can't find the mech files....

Did you extract the .pak files? The directions are pretty clear in the original post.

For those of you following the Star Citizen hanger release, these instructions work *great* with those files too! I made a version of this post over on the RSI forums.

[Skye Storm]

Oh I thought winrar covered that sorry. I got it now.

[Skye Storm]

And when noesis says the file .cgf file can not be viewed?

[Leafia Barrett]

Leafia Barrett, on 25 August 2013 - 11:11 AM, said:

Has anyone figured out where the animation files for the mechs' movements are, and how they can be used, if at all?

Also, has anyone been able to figure out the PPC projectile? I know why Noesis can't export it, but not what to do about it.
Basically, the PPC projectile doesn't actually have a model. Like, at all. The projectile is made purely from particles.

Skye Storm, on 30 August 2013 - 09:53 AM, said:

And when noesis says the file .cgf file can not be viewed?

Did you install the plugin for cgf files?

Edited by Leafia Barrett, 30 August 2013 - 10:20 AM.

[Skye Storm]

Leafia Barrett, on 30 August 2013 - 10:19 AM, said:

Did you install the plugin for cgf files?

Yes... but I forgot to unzip it...
*facepalm.

[Stardust Reverie]

Leafia Barrett, on 21 August 2013 - 07:58 AM, said:

I'd really love to know where the hip joints are for the Kintaro, because I'll tell you where they aren't: in the game. The hip models are not in any part of any section of any game files included in Mechwarrior Online. I've looked through every folder, every compressed file, every everything, and nothing. The game doesn't even define where the hips are supposed to be placed in the model assembly file. It literally is not even mentioned anywhere in the model assembly. I have pored over the game files, and they are nowhere. They're not attached to any of the leg or pelvis/torso model parts either, I already checked that. They flat-out don't exist. I'm rather incensed by this, as I just spent the better part of a week turning this:

There's a couple of files called kto_left_leg_thigh and kto_right_leg_thigh. They have the upper leg with the hip joints on them.

[Leafia Barrett]

Oh my GOD this was a nightmare to get right. F***ing lighting, man, how does it work. I had to resort to "max out the intensity then dial back until it works right". (That's a large pulse laser in the chest, if you're wondering.)