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3 Dimensional Chat / Lightwave (Atlas UV mapping) to directx

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wbarrett 26
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 05:42
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I am having trouble with my models i create in lightwave. Whenever I use Atlas UV mapping and then export as a directx model i lose the uv mapping in DB. If i export out as .3ds then the mapping gets messed up when i load it in DB.
I even tried Milkshape but when i import the .lwo file it says my uv map has holes in it and will not load the bitmap. Can anyone explain whats going on? i appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
-Billy
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wbarrett 26
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 17:48
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sorry should of put these in the original post

here is a simple knife with a atlas uv map


here is the .lwo file with the uv bitmap
http://www.villaingames.com/knife.zip

I just want to export it as a .x with the uv map
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zircher
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 18:32
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I tried to import the object into Milkshape 3D, but it says that it can not read a LW 6.5 object. Can you save the file in a lower version number format?
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wbarrett 26
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 20:29
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Quote: "I tried to import the object into Milkshape 3D, but it says that it can not read a LW 6.5 object. Can you save the file in a lower version number format?
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there should be a second option for importing lightwave models lower on the list. that is the option choose and it gave me the uv-map has holes in it message, but it still imported the model
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 22:09 Edited at: 30th Mar 2004 22:15
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Ok, using MS3D 1.70 and the second LWO importer I was able to bring the model in with minimal errors. I happen to use the color and specularity check boxes out of curiosity. It said that I needed to weld some faces, but that's a minor thing. I did loose texture mapping, but once you learn MS3D's texture editor it was easy to select the faces, open the editor, mark the region that I wanted and re-map the faces. I'll e-mail the MS3D file to you so you can see what I did.
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Oh yeah, I also moved the model so that the origin was at the handle. You may want to move that back, if needed.

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wbarrett 26
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Thanks Taz,
I will play around with Milkshape and become a little more familiar with the texture editor. I appreciate your help
-Billy
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alblilittlest 13
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hi i just got DB and i want to know how to make moving objects using lightwave i have lots of expirence with lightwave but cant program. any help would be good.
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Posted: 16th Apr 2004 04:41 Edited at: 16th Apr 2004 04:42
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Hey, try our LightWave exporter plugin. A new version of it is coming out within the next week.

Website at: http://www.nuclearglory.com

Skeletal animation is upcoming.

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Powerful Collision DLL for DBPro and DBC: http://www.nuclearglory.com
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