Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

FPSC Classic Models and Media / Any modeling program that imports FPSC .x files correctly ?

Author
Message
Mr illusionest
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2009
Location: Cairo , Egypt
Posted: 5th Oct 2010 21:52
Link
Hi all ....

I'm trying to learn modeling and animating , I installed Blender but whenever I try to import a .x model from FPSC folder it is blank , the import is finished but nothing is there .
I installed Winds 3d , but it has no .x importing , only exporting .
I looked for a good Model Converter , I got Quick 3d Trial , It has the same problem with Blender , but if you try to export another .x model , the whole progeam crashes .

Any Ideas ?
Cheers

"I am the night visitor when everyone is sleep , and when the last light fades"
The illusionest
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Bootlicker
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Mar 2009
Location: Germany
Posted: 5th Oct 2010 21:57
Link
use fragmotion . I have no idea how to do anything in it. I just use it for importing and exporting .x files. The trial version can do this


Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Mr illusionest
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2009
Location: Cairo , Egypt
Posted: 5th Oct 2010 22:00
Link
Can the trial version animate ? I can't manage to buy anything right now .....

"I am the night visitor when everyone is sleep , and when the last light fades"
The illusionest
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Bootlicker
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Mar 2009
Location: Germany
Posted: 5th Oct 2010 22:03
Link
yes, the trial of fragmotion can animate and can save .x files with animations, something which a few other programs cant.


Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Mr illusionest
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2009
Location: Cairo , Egypt
Posted: 5th Oct 2010 23:21
Link
another question please :
I looked at a tutorial and I could animate a frame , but I want the following frames to follow the same frame , Will I have to edit every frame from scratch or there's some copy and paste ?

"I am the night visitor when everyone is sleep , and when the last light fades"
The illusionest
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Bootlicker
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Mar 2009
Location: Germany
Posted: 5th Oct 2010 23:24
Link
I dont have a clue for that one. Sorry, as I said I just use it for importing and exporting. Your gonna have to download it and see or someone else will merrily pop along and tell you.


Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Mr illusionest
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2009
Location: Cairo , Egypt
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 13:58
Link
Anyone can answer me ? Please ?

"I am the night visitor when everyone is sleep , and when the last light fades"
The illusionest
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Seth Black
FPSC Reloaded TGC Backer
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Feb 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 18:40
Link
...FragMOTION.

Back to top
Profile PM
Nbt
15
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Oct 2009
Location: Behind you!!
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 19:07
Link
Quote: "another question please :
I looked at a tutorial and I could animate a frame , but I want the following frames to follow the same frame , Will I have to edit every frame from scratch or there's some copy and paste ?"


Yes Fragmotion can cut/copy and paste frames of animation, just drag over the frame(s) with mouse button held down to highlight, then select cut/copy and then paste etc.

You can also just place a starting frame, move 10,20,30 and so on frames over and move the object your animating to it's end frame and Fragmotion will do the rest for you. So say you had a door at frame 1 sitting in the closed position, then moved the frame marker to frame 30 and rotated the door 90 degree's to the open position. That would be enough to create an opening animation of 30 frames, as Fragmotion would animate that door opening from 0-90 degree's over 30 frames.

rolfy pack, rolfy pack, we all need a rolfy pack
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Mr illusionest
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2009
Location: Cairo , Egypt
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 21:10
Link
Quote: "Fragmotion will do the rest for you"

Wow ! That's so cool actully , and makes things much easier .
Anyway I have another problem :
Whenever I animate A charcater then export a .x file for it , It never appears in-game , I mean I set it FPSC ready with .fpe and so on , And I place it in Map-Editor , but In-game it is not there , just the blob shadow .
I wil say something just to help , When I export a .x model it asks me if it's Text or Binary Or Compressed , can this make a diffrence ?

Thanks all , Cheers

"I am the night visitor when everyone is sleep , and when the last light fades"
The illusionest
Back to top
Profile PM Email
anayar
15
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Aug 2009
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 21:13
Link
Quote: "Text or Binary Or Compressed"

Im pretty sure "text" is the best one for fpsc. As for the character not being there... Im not quite sure why that happens, it has happened to me too, so your not alone

Cheers,
Anayar


For KeithC
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Norion
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Jun 2010
Location: The Netherlands.
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 22:00
Link
What is fragmotion ?

I mean what does it do?

Quote: "I'm trying to learn modeling and animating"


LOL me 2

Cheers


NORION.

The universe is everything around this but you are everything around the universe.

by Norion.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Seth Black
FPSC Reloaded TGC Backer
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Feb 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posted: 6th Oct 2010 22:52 Edited at: 6th Oct 2010 22:53
Link
Quote: "...I mean what does it do?"


...pretty much everything except for detailed model sculpting.

Quote: "Text or Binary Or Compressed"


...text should be used.

Back to top
Profile PM
Nbt
15
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Oct 2009
Location: Behind you!!
Posted: 7th Oct 2010 02:10
Link
Quote: "Whenever I animate A charcater then export a .x file for it , It never appears in-game , I mean I set it FPSC ready with .fpe and so on , And I place it in Map-Editor , but In-game it is not there , just the blob shadow .
I wil say something just to help , When I export a .x model it asks me if it's Text or Binary Or Compressed , can this make a diffrence ?"


I have always used compressed, as to be honest I never knew which to use myself and compressed took up less HDD space

As to not showing up in the editor, is the character to scale ??

In Fragmotion 4 large grid squares (each being 25 units by 25 units) is the size of a standard FPSC grid square, or segment. So in Fragmotion 100Hx100Wx100L = a segment sized cube and a normal FPSC AI character is about 60 units heigh and about 26/7 units wide.

rolfy pack, rolfy pack, we all need a rolfy pack
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Mr illusionest
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2009
Location: Cairo , Egypt
Posted: 7th Oct 2010 13:22
Link
Quote: "As to not showing up in the editor, is the character to scale ??"


I imported a FPSC model already , which is Specialist.x , So It can't be too scaled because it's already scaled , and because the gun that the entity have appears in the correct place for my animation .

Cheers

"I am the night visitor when everyone is sleep , and when the last light fades"
The illusionest
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Sn00ze
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jan 2009
Location:
Posted: 7th Oct 2010 19:43
Link
Here is a great tutorial for using Fragmotion, note certain proceedures setting up the windows in Fragmotion have not been addressed, so each individual window must be set as stated in the tutorial, the tut gives the impression only one command changes all four, the icons at the top of the tool bar are the controllers. One of the weak points for fragmotion is that it is an older software and not a lot of tutorials are out there, very under rated tool!

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=174125&b=24
Back to top
Profile PM
Aaagreen
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Sep 2007
Location: City 17
Posted: 7th Oct 2010 20:26
Link
As far as I am aware, there are NO modelling programs which import .x fles correctly. The current version of FragMOTION gets close though.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Michael Thompson
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 15th Aug 2008
Location: Behind you (if not, in australia)
Posted: 27th Oct 2010 14:16
Link
As it happens, i am also trying to learn how to use fragmotion, and after ages of looking for tutorials, none of which told me how to model, I have been wondering What can it actually do?
before I was using fragmotion, I used a program called Metasequoia for my modelling and Cyberdelia for my animating. Both are quite god, apart from their inability to export to .x (metasequoia can import .x though). Although, I will be looking for a model converting program that allows me to do this, so fingers crossed everyone.

Windows 7 ultimate x64, Intel i7, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 330m 1GB
Flash Star Game Creations
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2025-06-02 09:52:02
Your offset time is: 2025-06-02 09:52:02