Warriors Orochi 3 (Early Access)

[Love2Raid]

Lol, weird, when you parent a mesh to an armature, the normals are also recalculated. I had no idea.

[PoophairJones]

Really great work on this semory!
I hope you guys shoot out tons of WO models Daz and pori did a good start ;D

I love how the importer script keeps all the original vertex normals, but unfortunately the models are too big so they have to be resized in XNALara, which screws up the normal map shader for some reason and the only fix is taking them back to Blender, which means no more original vertex normals.
Maybe I should just resize them in Blender...

When you resize models in XNA export them as a .mesh file^^ It will keep the size (not any posing though) and the normal shader won't screw up. I don't know why the shader sometimes messes up but this kept it from happening for me.

Also for that Remove Doubles on UV border... it works well for FF models but it often does nothing on other models. It somehow removes less doubles than the ''smooth mesh part'' option but i don't know exactly how it works.

[semory]

if you want access too just let me know. i'll pm u a link.

[Love2Raid]

Really? That's very useful info, I'll try that, thanks!

[PoophairJones]

@ semory

That's really nice but no thank you =)


@ L2R

I hope it works out xD What do you guys mean by game normals btw? Like everything is coordinated right and nothing needs to be flipped? o_O

[semory]

Daz, so how hard was it to regenerate the cloth using those NUNO files?

[Dazzy]

I didnt really use it on SSX, since i had her cloth already done, however i used it for one of the weapons of hers that had cloth, and it was pretty simple since it was just a straight forward mesh. I will be using the NUNO files for the next port tho, so ill tell you then

[Love2Raid]

@ semory

That's really nice but no thank you =)


@ L2R

I hope it works out xD What do you guys mean by game normals btw? Like everything is coordinated right and nothing needs to be flipped? o_O

No, the vertex normals. When they are all correct, you won't have to remove any of those 'double vertices'. But Blender recalculates them all the time (when importing, when going to edit mode, even when parenting the mesh to the armature o_O) so you will end up with ugly seams (right where edges of the meshes are on the UV map, for example between hands and arms or whatever) that have to be removed manually and that can be quite some work if you want to be precise about it, as you know. :/

[PoophairJones]

@ semory

That's really nice but no thank you =)


@ L2R

I hope it works out xD What do you guys mean by game normals btw? Like everything is coordinated right and nothing needs to be flipped? o_O

No, the vertex normals. When they are all correct, you won't have to remove any of those 'double vertices'. But Blender recalculates them all the time (when importing, when going to edit mode, even when parenting the mesh to the armature o_O) so you will end up with ugly seams (right where edges of the meshes are on the UV map, for example between hands and arms or whatever) that have to be removed manually and that can be quite some work if you want to be precise about it, as you know. :/

Okay, i Edit Mode...fine you do sth to edit the mesh, i get it xD but parenting to armature? What the hell, Blender xD
Yeah i know what a pain they can be >< Better to have correct ones from the start then xD

Thanks a lot for the explanation =)

[Love2Raid]

I know, it makes no sense to me either.
True, because on some parts the 'sharp' edges look nice so you can't just select everything, remove doubles and be done with it. It will look really bad, because of ugly shading errors. And sometimes it fucks up the weights, too.

No problem and thank you too for mentioning that .mesh export trick!