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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Bond1 Shader question

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SamHH
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Posted: 21st Aug 2010 09:11
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I'm finally getting into the whole shader thing and actually using the skin modifier instead of physique. I am however running into a couple problems. 1. When I use any of the freaks shaders I get the dreaded model stretches out into a messed up blob problem, 2. Exporting with pandasoft has yielded deformed meshes that don't seem to stay binded to the skeleton, as a result I've been using the KW .x exporter.
So, if you could possibly shed any light on your export process that would be awesome.

Thanks,

SamHH


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bond1
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Posted: 21st Aug 2010 18:26
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Make sure you take these steps when rigging the character:

1. Reset X-forms
2. Apply skin modifier and add bones (everything except the root bip01)
3. Set "bone affect limit" to 4 in advanced parameters
4. After rigging, hit the button labeled "remove zero weights" to clean up any verts that have bones assigned with zero weighting
5. Export with Panda - never had any luck with KW exporter.

Hope this helps!

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SamHH
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Posted: 21st Aug 2010 22:07
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That did the trick! But now, for some reason when I'm trying to us the darkshader template the character goes black after I apply the spec map, I've tested your Dante model with my textures and everything works fine, so I guess it's something in the export settings, could you post your export settings as an image?


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bond1
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Posted: 21st Aug 2010 23:59
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I've attached a pic showing my settings. Sometimes I notice the Dark Shader crashes when loading .X files for rigged characters - and wants them in .dbo instead. So you might need to convert it to dbo by loading it into FPSC first if you notice any weirdness.

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