Meshmod: everyhing looks screwed up
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:46 pm
Hi there precious! 
I am experiencing a new problem and I'm pretty curious to see what the hell I am doing wrong and why this is happening.
I'm trying to make a meshmod, just a hoodie attached to Dante's upper body (yes, him again). In other words, I didn't remove anything, just added this shirt on his naked torso. The problem is that when I load the model in XNALara (and blender) this happens:
This is what I've done exactly, in order (in 3DS Max)
1) I loaded both Dante and dancer guy from Dance Masters with the XNALara script
2) I removed the bones and meshes that I didn't need from the second model
3) I placed the empty hoodie with its bones on Dante, modifying it in order to get a similar shape
4) I linked all the bones (neck with neck, head with head, spine lower with spine lower, shoulder with shoulder and so on)
5) I renamed the hoodie's bones, so that they had a different name and didn't screw up the model in XNALara (it happens if you accidentally leave two bones with the same name)
6) When I finished I exported the test mod and loaded it into XNALara. The result is the one from the picture
7) I thought that maybe something went wrong and I could still have some bones with the same name, but I couldn't find them. I then decided to redo the base mod directly loading the hoodie from the game files again instead of the XNALara model. In that case I was sure that the bones had a totally different name from Dante's.
8) Again I placed the hoodie on him, linked the bones and this time I also removed pieces of meshes from Dante's body (the ones covered by the hoodie).
9) Exported again to make another test and loaded the model for the second time.
Well, I just got the same issue. Looks like the weights are a total disaster, or something happened to the vertex groups, I honestly have no idead. I already had such a problem, but usually it was due to a wrong bone naming or parenting and I could fix that with no troubles at all. This time I seriously don't know what the hell is going on. Any suggestion?
EDIT: Redoing it for the third time, switching from Max to blender and back in Max, solved the problem. I did the parenting in blender, exported the mod and reimported it in Max where I added missing linking, lightmaps, removed seams and other stuff. It looks like 3DS tends to screw everything up when you parent some bones together, I don't really know why this program likes trolling me so much. Anyway, gonna leave this thread here in case somebody else will experience this or a smilar issue in the future.
I am experiencing a new problem and I'm pretty curious to see what the hell I am doing wrong and why this is happening.
I'm trying to make a meshmod, just a hoodie attached to Dante's upper body (yes, him again). In other words, I didn't remove anything, just added this shirt on his naked torso. The problem is that when I load the model in XNALara (and blender) this happens:
This is what I've done exactly, in order (in 3DS Max)
1) I loaded both Dante and dancer guy from Dance Masters with the XNALara script
2) I removed the bones and meshes that I didn't need from the second model
3) I placed the empty hoodie with its bones on Dante, modifying it in order to get a similar shape
4) I linked all the bones (neck with neck, head with head, spine lower with spine lower, shoulder with shoulder and so on)
5) I renamed the hoodie's bones, so that they had a different name and didn't screw up the model in XNALara (it happens if you accidentally leave two bones with the same name)
6) When I finished I exported the test mod and loaded it into XNALara. The result is the one from the picture
7) I thought that maybe something went wrong and I could still have some bones with the same name, but I couldn't find them. I then decided to redo the base mod directly loading the hoodie from the game files again instead of the XNALara model. In that case I was sure that the bones had a totally different name from Dante's.
8) Again I placed the hoodie on him, linked the bones and this time I also removed pieces of meshes from Dante's body (the ones covered by the hoodie).
9) Exported again to make another test and loaded the model for the second time.
Well, I just got the same issue. Looks like the weights are a total disaster, or something happened to the vertex groups, I honestly have no idead. I already had such a problem, but usually it was due to a wrong bone naming or parenting and I could fix that with no troubles at all. This time I seriously don't know what the hell is going on. Any suggestion?
EDIT: Redoing it for the third time, switching from Max to blender and back in Max, solved the problem. I did the parenting in blender, exported the mod and reimported it in Max where I added missing linking, lightmaps, removed seams and other stuff. It looks like 3DS tends to screw everything up when you parent some bones together, I don't really know why this program likes trolling me so much. Anyway, gonna leave this thread here in case somebody else will experience this or a smilar issue in the future.