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[Heffay]

Don't know anything about 3DSMax unfortunately.

[Heffay]

Cryengine plug-in for Noesis:

https://dl.dropboxus...yengine_cgf.dll

[Sparks Murphey]

Tolderian, on 05 August 2014 - 02:08 PM, said:

Much obliged.

What version of 3dsMAX would you advise I use?

I've successfully used this process with 3DS Max 2012, 2013 and 2014. I don't know of any reason other versions would have problems.

[baabaa214]

I have been using 2012 and 2014 on my Cats and other mechs.

[Tolderian]

All good things. Thank you very much Heffay, Sparks Murphey, and Baabaa214. I'm looking forward to experimenting with all this. Just wanted to make sure I had the most optimal software for the task since I can experiment with this in our drafting department and give our printers a run for their money. My test prints HAD to be cool. Mechs were just a no-brainer for a medium

[Nightmare1]

Shoot, and here I was hoping for something more along the lines of paint-by-numbers.

I never got past stick figures; I doubt I could make sense of all this art stuff. Oh well! It's cool that it's here; thanks for posting!

Now to go beg some of my more artistic friends to make me a custom BattleMech.

[Seijin Dinger]

Use Blender and follow the video tutorials. I do customs via Blender and then export an object file. That object is what I take into 3DS Max and make pics with

Also nice Black Sheep Squadron referance BaaBaa

[Seijin Dinger]

Nightmare1, on 06 August 2014 - 12:45 PM, said:

Shoot, and here I was hoping for something more along the lines of paint-by-numbers.

I never got past stick figures; I doubt I could make sense of all this art stuff. Oh well! It's cool that it's here; thanks for posting!

Now to go beg some of my more artistic friends to make me a custom BattleMech.

I can try and do a custom one, though I am not all that good with 3D Modeling, and mainly only work with the existing assets

[soulfire]

I've watched the three vids on getting it into blender has anyone made one on getting models out of the game and into into 3dmax, and or crys sand box. reading in the star citizen forums looks like it is easier to put the mech into crisis sandbox and them exporting them to whatever. Whoever made the first post on this forum should update the links Noesis can only be found now at the authors website the linked to site has been closed down, the plugin is hard to find someone just posted it.
http://www.richwhite...nc_projects.php
is where Noesis is located.

[kuangmk11]

Thanks for the tutorials (and the mech import script) Heffay!

[Nightmare1]

Seijin Dinger, on 08 August 2014 - 01:05 PM, said:

I can try and do a custom one, though I am not all that good with 3D Modeling, and mainly only work with the existing assets

Hey there! I got your message and want to thank you for your offer! However, I'm not terribly serious about making a custom Mech right now - got too much RL stuff at the moment. I appreciate your willingness to help though!

Have a great day!

[CyclonerM]

JennerCrusher, on 10 August 2014 - 03:13 PM, said:

I luv dis <3

Me too

[Tolderian]

Soooo... I've gotten everything unpacked and I'm trying to find the scale.cfg but I don't seem to see them for many of the Clan mechs. Like the StormCrow is Stormcrow_body_LOD1.cfg whereas the Warhawk, Timberwolf, Summoner have no such file associated with them. In fact... it looks like the stormcrow is the ONLY Clan mech with a body cfg file.

If there's a different procedure, I hope they can update the post to reflect that.

[Heffay]

Tolderian, on 11 August 2014 - 09:02 AM, said:

Soooo... I've gotten everything unpacked and I'm trying to find the scale.cfg but I don't seem to see them for many of the Clan mechs. Like the StormCrow is Stormcrow_body_LOD1.cfg whereas the Warhawk, Timberwolf, Summoner have no such file associated with them. In fact... it looks like the stormcrow is the ONLY Clan mech with a body cfg file.

If there's a different procedure, I hope they can update the post to reflect that.

The scale model only exists for about 8 of the oldest mechs. The new models are all parts that need to be assembled. I've created a script that does this for you automatically.

The first youtube tutorial deals with the scale model (and contains generic information useful for future work). The second and third video tutorial (including the supplement) are more specific to the mech importer script and how to work with the modern mech files.

[kuangmk11]

Here is a follow up to what I posted in the other thread earlier today:

kuangmk11, on 16 August 2014 - 10:45 AM, said:

You can extract the shaders from "MechWarrior Online\Engine\Shaders.pak" to "CryENGINE_PC_v3_4_5_6666_freesdk\Engine\" and add a line to "CryENGINE_PC_v3_4_5_6666_freesdk\Editor\Materials\ShaderList.xml" for the missing "Mech" and MechCockpit" shaders. This way you can avoid changing all the shaders for mechs to "Ilum"

<ShaderList>
<Shader name="Cloth" />
<Shader name="Eye" />
<Shader name="Fx_velocitybeamparticles" />
<Shader name="Glass" />
<Shader name="Hair" />
<Shader name="Humanskin" />
<Shader name="Illum" />
 
<Shader name="Mech" />
<Shader name="MechCockpit" />
 
<Shader name="Monitor" />
<Shader name="Nodraw" />
<Shader name="Particles" />
<Shader name="Terrain.Layer" />
<Shader name="Vegetation" />
<Shader name="Water" />
<Shader name="Waterfall" />
<Shader name="Common.Cloud" />
<Shader name="Distanceclouds" />
<Shader name="Frozenlayerwip" />
<Shader name="Hologram" />
<Shader name="Ice" />
<Shader name="Light.Flare" />
<Shader name="Lightbeam.LightBeam" />
<Shader name="Lightflares.Flare" />
<Shader name="Liquid" />
<Shader name="Methagen" />
<Shader name="Ping" />
<Shader name="Referenceimage" />
<Shader name="Scopes" />
<Shader name="Sky" />
<Shader name="Skyhdr" />
<Shader name="Specialeffects" />
<Shader name="GeometryBeam" />
<Shader name="Templbeamproc" />
<Shader name="Volumeobject" />
</ShaderList>

Having the "mech" shader available in cryengine fixes many things and lets you color just like the mechlab.

Here is what we see using the "Ilum" shader:


Here is what it looks like only switching to "mech" shader:



Notice the new options we get under "shader params". There are the color settings!



and now we can easily apply the skins by changing "subsurface texture" the the desired skin.

[WmLowFlyer]

Appears that the Noesis links no longer work?

[kuangmk11]

WmLowFlyer, on 17 August 2014 - 06:45 PM, said:

Appears that the Noesis links no longer work?

here is my copy: noesisv40989

[WmLowFlyer]

kuangmk11, on 17 August 2014 - 07:55 PM, said:

here is my copy: noesisv40989

ahh tyvm you're a lifesaver Kuangmk11


This will make importing the map object files to SDK a lot easier than doing everything manually.

[kuangmk11]

I spent all day trying to get workable animations in the SDK. I felt close a couple times and then it would break. I can get mechs to follow a path but not animate/animate totally out of sync with the ground or I can have mechs sync to the ground but refuse to follow a path... UGH... I fixed my car though!

Edited by kuangmk11, 17 August 2014 - 09:50 PM.

[Ra-ul]

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet or not, but there's also an easy way to use the RGB or camo textures from MWO in Blender. The "seperate RGB" node will split the color information into red, green and blue channel, which then can be used as a factor to mix in any color (or texture) you wish instead.

Below you see how I set up my material with some comments on the important stuff you have to consider.



Eventually you end up with something like this (woodland camo):