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[Dreamk]

Tutorial 5: Preparing Parts for Exporting and Exporting Process

The 3ds D0 model has now been mapped, has been separated once again into parts according to Il2 nomenclature, the parts have been linked with their Shadows and LODs hologous parts – these last parts have been renamed according to Buggy Buggy exporter requirements – the hooks and collision have been linked to each model part. All is ready for exporting the meshes to Il2.

Step 1 - Settle pivots
Pivots for the mobile parts must be settled as follows:



In order to settle pivots:
Select the part for which you want to settle pivots
Click on the pivots icon (the "white box linked to 3 other small ones button" in the command pannel area)
Click on affect pivot only (in the adjust pivot submenu)
press the "Reset Pivot" button (in the same submenu)
press the "Scale" button (in the "Adjust Transform" submenu - under the previous "adust pivot" submenu)
Move your pivot and rotate it into the wanted position and location, using the "move" and "rotate" tools of the toolbar
If you need to invert the pivot rotation, Press the "Transform" button (under te "Scale" button, in the "Adjust Transform" submenu - under the previous "Adjust Pivot" submenu).
Finish by clicking on the "white arrow and star" button in the command pannel area

Pivots for the fixed parts must be centered:
Select the part for which you want to settle pivots
Click on the pivots icon (the "white box linked to 3 other small ones button" in the command pannel area)
Click on affect pivot only (in the adjust pivot submenu)
press the "Reset Pivot" button (in the same submenu)
Press the "center to Object" button (in the same submenu)
Finish by clicking on the "white arrow and star" button in the command pannel area

Step 2 Exporting Fixed parts - using the Buggy Buggy Exporter:
Click on the "tools" button (the "hammer" button in the "command pannel" area)
Click on MAXScript button (I suppose that you have correcly installed the Buggy Buggy exporter according to its installation instructions)
A submenu MAXScript appears
Click on the "Utilities" drop menu in this MAXScript submenu
select BuggyBuggy Il2 Exporter
A Buggy Buggy Submenu appears
Go down in this sub menu and press "export.Il2.msh(text)" button
click on "select by name" icon on your toll bar
In the pop=up windows that appears, select the name of the part you want to export (its linked elements will be automatically exported together, no need to select their name, only then name of the main part to export)
then press the "select" button in the lower right quadran of this pop up window
Wait for the export process to complete (the white windows at the bottom left of the 3dmax/Gmax screen serves as an indicator of activity)
When the process is completed, press the "Open Listener" button in the MAXScript submenu of the "Command Pannel" area
Check the listener file:
Replace the material names by names existing in your mod folder such as Gloss1D0o, Matt1D0o, etc..
If it is a "cockpit file" suppress the [LOD] entry (including the word [LOD])
Then save your msh file:
If working in 3dmax, simply save your file according to the name of the exported mesh (this name appears at the head of this listener file)
If in Gamx, use a grablistener programm such as GL2F.exe to save the file and then rename it accordingly)


Step 3 - Exporting mobile parts using the Kumpel matrix version 2

Mobile parts:
Select the part
clone the part
hide unselected (only the cloned part remains)
right click on rotate tool
note the rotation parameters x, y,z that appear
input them into the Kumpel matrix (Rot x, Rot y, Rot z)
change the sign of these rotation parameters (+ becomes minus, - becomes +)
press "calculate matrix" and you get the first 9 numbers you need
right click the position tool
notate the position parameters x, y, z
these position parameters are the last 3 numbers you need to complete the 12 numbers "attaching" line
select yoru cloned part (if it went unselected)
right clik on the position tool (if you've closed the window)
input 0,0,0 at the position tool parameters
click on the screen
select your cloned part once again
right click on the rotation tool
input 0,0,0 at the rotation tool parameter
your cloned part is now at 0,0,0 postion with rotation 0,0,0
Export your cloned part with the buggy buggy exporter to get the relevant msh file
copy the 12 numbers line in the hier him at the relevant place.

[=BLW=PabloSniper]

dear Dreamk , with many difficulties, I managed to get the shaft, thank you for the tutorials.

the moving parts, are really the most annoying.

a question, I did exactly as you wrote, but the parts are always born in the center of the aircraft, I have to manually edit the position in the hier?

~S~

[Lisek]

Yes you have.

They will always appear in the middle of Parent.msh unless you change their position by editing last 3 numbers in the line started with word "attaching"

[=BLW=PabloSniper]

thanks Lisek