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[Silver Wind Jones]

Great video! I can understand it now! Everything works EXCEPT every time I type in the cgf-converter.exe it gives me an error... I put the script in the path like you said as well as the mech importer and the asset thingy and it’s not working. I followed the video to the T! Everything you did I paused and did it for my self and it worked great except that part... now I downloaded the cgf converter before a while back when I first attempted and now it says cgf-converter (1) .exe... could this be the problem?

[TheSkiDog]

Heffay, on 14 November 2017 - 09:56 AM, said:

Alright, finished the first tutorial. It's for generic Cryengine assets. Will post a link when the youtube upload is done. Also working on a bulk converting tutorial, as well as a mech importer one.

Sorry for the delays on this. They take a lot of time to produce.

Edit: First video. Just basic conversion stuff. The mech conversion video still needs to be completed.

https://youtu.be/6WoA2ubTZ0k

Watched it, like it, looking forward to the next one.

[Heffay]

New tutorial video created! Original post has been updated with all the latest info.

Will try to finish the final one (importing mechs!) this weekend.

Edited by Heffay, 24 November 2017 - 08:07 PM.

[TheSkiDog]

Heffay, on 24 November 2017 - 08:06 PM, said:

New tutorial video created!

Much more comprehensive than your initial tutorials.
Second one was great.

[Heffay]

TheSkiDog, on 24 November 2017 - 10:33 PM, said:

Much more comprehensive than your initial tutorials.
Second one was great.

Thanks!

These are much easier to make than the older ones. I've updated the programs and scripts to handle a lot more things that you had to do before. I really like how asset importer turned out.

[Silver Wind Jones]

I give up I cannot DO THIS! Everything is where it should be, I’ve done everything right nothing works.... I keep getting these annoying errors...

[TheSkiDog]

Don't give up.
All it takes is a little power shell knowledge, and making sure you have things setup in your path correctly.
Once you get it, it's really pretty easy.

Well, knowing blender or some other modeling program helps too.

Edited by TheSkiDog, 02 December 2017 - 05:59 PM.

[Silver Wind Jones]

TheSkiDog, on 02 December 2017 - 03:21 PM, said:

Don't give up.
All it takes is a little power shell knowledge, and making sure you have things setup in your path correctly.
Once you get it, it's really pretty easy.

Well, knowing blender or some other modeling program helps too.

Everything is where it should be. I’ve created a scripts directory, a depot directory, and an mwo directory and I’ve extracted all the pak files into where the tutorial said to extract them and as he was doing all this in PowerShell I paused and did it for myself and when if can to the cgf-converter.exe it didn’t work. The converter eve is in the scripts directory like he said and I even went back to make sure I didn’t misspell anything and I didn’t. So I redownloaded all the programs to see if that worked and still didn’t. I don’t know what to do..

[TheSkiDog]

Silver Wind Jones, on 03 December 2017 - 01:05 PM, said:

Everything is where it should be. I’ve created a scripts directory

Did you add the scripts directory to your path?
Nothing will work if you don't add that directory to your path.

[TheSkiDog]

Does anyone still have the old Catapult files still on their hard drive?
I'm talking the non stripped down files when srms we're a bolt on style addition to the mech.

I thought I still had them on my backup disk, but alas.... not to be found.

Does anyone remember what I am talking about?

[Iacov]

hey heffay!

thanks for the new plugin and converter - they work fantastic, thank you for your time and effort put in this project!

i'm currently stuck at a probably odd point

how do i select and display specific weapons?
and how do i "lock" a specific pose for e.g. 3d printing?

[Heffay]

All the weapons and custom geometry shapes are on the second layer. You can select the weapons you want to show on the mech, and use... ctrl-m I think to also have it show on the first layer.

I'm not sure about locking poses for printing though. It may be possible to pose it the way you want, and then create a new rest post for it like that, but... I'm not sure. The model to 3D printing process is a mystery to me. I'm not sure what the printing software is really looking for.

[Iacov]

Heffay, on 27 December 2017 - 05:26 AM, said:

All the weapons and custom geometry shapes are on the second layer. You can select the weapons you want to show on the mech, and use... ctrl-m I think to also have it show on the first layer.

I'm not sure about locking poses for printing though. It may be possible to pose it the way you want, and then create a new rest post for it like that, but... I'm not sure. The model to 3D printing process is a mystery to me. I'm not sure what the printing software is really looking for.

oh my god, how embarassing, the weapons were right in front of my eyes xD sorry :/

i will experiment then - interested in findings? (may take a while, though, until i get into 3d printing again)

i can't thank you enough for your work! the plugin is extremely neat:D

[TheSkiDog]

TheSkiDog, on 11 December 2017 - 06:30 AM, said:

Does anyone still have the old Catapult files still on their hard drive?
I'm talking the non stripped down files when srms we're a bolt on style addition to the mech.

I thought I still had them on my backup disk, but alas.... not to be found.

Does anyone remember what I am talking about?

Anyone????

[Heffay]

Iacov, on 28 December 2017 - 01:29 PM, said:

i will experiment then - interested in findings? (may take a while, though, until i get into 3d printing again)

Heck yes! There are a ton of people interested in 3D printing their own mechs, and a lack of solid info on how to do it. I think it's time intensive work, but being able to capture that info so others can do it would be a huge boon to the community. Document and video it! Heck, that would be a great Twitch streaming opportunity as well.

[Jacob Soloman]

Happy holidays all,

I thought I'd spend some time over the holidays getting back into 3d printing these MWO models but I've hit a problem. I'm trying to use the new cgf-converter.exe program but I've no idea what I'm doing really.

I've watched the vids, which makes everything look easy, but I think my problem is that I don't know how to set/add a scripts directory. I've even copied Heffay's directory example in the video - except I use E:\ instead of D:\.

I've google'd adding a scripts directory but I can't tell which is the appropriate method to use and they all seem different. I've also trying to run the converter directly from the mech directory, but I must be getting the command line wrong for this to work.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[Heffay]

Jacob Soloman, on 30 December 2017 - 04:21 PM, said:

Happy holidays all,

I thought I'd spend some time over the holidays getting back into 3d printing these MWO models but I've hit a problem. I'm trying to use the new cgf-converter.exe program but I've no idea what I'm doing really.

I've watched the vids, which makes everything look easy, but I think my problem is that I don't know how to set/add a scripts directory. I've even copied Heffay's directory example in the video - except I use E:\ instead of D:\.

I've google'd adding a scripts directory but I can't tell which is the appropriate method to use and they all seem different. I've also trying to run the converter directly from the mech directory, but I must be getting the command line wrong for this to work.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

There are actually 2 things that are happening there.

First, the creation of the scripts directory. That's simply adding a new folder called Scripts at the root of the drive. It doesn't have to be called that; you can call it whatever you want. I just put my scripts in there, so... it's called scripts.

The second is adding that directory to the Path, which really depends on your operating system. Windows 7 and 10 are a bit different, but a quick google search for your appropriate directory should show you how to add a directory to your system path.

If you want to skip that second part, you can just source the full path to the converter program. So wherever you see "cgf-converter.exe", just use (assuming it's in e:\scripts) "e:\scripts\cgf-converter.exe".

[Heffay]

OK, I finally finished up the 2nd tutorial video on how to import mechs and assets. I completely changed how the process works, so watch the tutorial video! Converting assets is pretty much the same (first video, cgf-converter.exe), but importing mechs and assets has been converted from a Powershell script to a Blender add-on. It'll create fully rigged mechs, and you can add Andreas80's fantastic MWO_CAMO_v3 blend file to apply camo patterns with custom colors! It's all described in great detail in the tutorial video.

I'll continue work on these tools so they are more feature complete, but.... yeah! Blender add-on! Prefab importer! Mech-Importer, fully rigged! I'm really happy with how these have turned out, so give them a try and let me know if you have any questions.

[Jacob Soloman]

Thanks Heffay,

It's surprising what a few key words will do for your search! Everything seems to be working so far, indeed I have just finished tweaking an Osiris ready for printing - just 12 more to go...

I can see you've put in a lot of work for all this and it's really appreciated.

Thanks again and happy new year!

[Heffay]