My Site and sabers

[Jo]

Here is my new site dedicated to the construction of my sabers.

any constructive criticism is wanted...just no spamming

 

and a quick question, how do you check the polycount of the model in milkshape.

 

http://masterjossaberfactory.freeservers.com/index.html

[icepool]

Well those sabers look really good to me! I have no idea why no one has posted here. I have a question for you. Since your obviously pretty good with modeling sabers I was wondering what you think of this saber I modeled and how I could make it better. Since no one post with any help in my thread either.

http://www.geocities.com/darkness_112000/Sicklesaber2.html

[Jo]

personally i think they look great......just add color and they would look great...by the way...i added two new sabers since this afternoon..that was at 4pm my time....and its now 9:30 pm....i spent about 1 1/2 hours on each one..

[SithMaster01]

Your third saber looks like Exar Kun's if you stick another end

on the other side on it!

[Jo]

i made my sabers off of different parts from other sabers in star wars and eu......ill try to post it on my site

[Jo]

6 sabers total now...check it out....now i need to know how to get them ingame...

[icepool]

I can help you with getting them in game. That parts pretty easy. Are you using milkshape. Also do you know how to skinmap? If you do, do you think you'd be interested in helping me finish this saber... http://www.geocities.com/darkness_112000/Sicklesaber5.html

 

Also this is the tutorial I used to get my unfinished saber in game to test it. http://www.massassi.com/coffeestain/03.html If you follow it closely you'll have a saber in game within 5 min.

[icepool]

Also I forgot to add. You will also need to import the glm file of kyles saber into your game so you can scale down the saber to the correct size. You will also need the tags for the blade and where to grip the saber from that file. I believe on the link I sent you there is a milkshape glm importer download it. Its very important.

[Jo]

okay.......another update....would someone be willing, if i send the textures and the mds3 file would they get them ingame

[Jo]

fine i see how it is, no one helps a lowly pit droid. but if someone helps me out i won't wine......

[Madjai]

i dont understand why you cant get them ingame, do you need to know how to?

[Jo]

i have tried and tried....so it someone has free time...email me

[Madjai]

what do you mean you "tried and tried"? if your having problems just explain to us what it is and we'll help.

 

and if you figure out how to do it then you wont have to go asking someone for help every time you want to make a saber.

 

"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime."

[Jo]

okay......im not sure which way to face the tag so the saber blade is right and ive done what ppl have said and created a skin file but i still dont have my textures on the fricken saber....so what do i do....

[Madjai]

ok for the tag, its really simple. ill start with what it HAS to be.

if you already know what a tag is then just skip this part. a tag is a single polygon, a triangle if you like. the only difference between a tag and a regular 'ol polygon is that the tag is a right-angle triangle with one side HALF the size of the other. so just make it simple, have one side sized 1 and the other 2 and the hypotenues is dependent on the other sides.

 

now the placement of the tag. the LONGEST side of the tag must be pointing straight up. like this diagram:

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|_\

|__\

|___\

 

and it must be bottom of the tag is where the blade begins. oh and dont forget to name it tag_flash.

 

now the texture problem... it can be the result of many things.

tell me this, when you open your model in md3view and you import your .skin file, does the textures show up or does it give you an error?

[Jo]

say what...about the last part...im confused with the skin....

[Madjai]

your directory should be as follows

c:/base/models/weapons2/saber

or if you want to make it mod compatible

c:/base/models/weapons2/<saber's name>

 

you should have md3view in /base and your saber, the .skin file and the .jpg file in either /saber or /<saber's name>

 

your skin file should be as follows

for non-mod,

w_saber,models/weapons2/saber/saber.jpg

for mod compatible,

w_saber,models/weapons2/<saber's name>/saber.jpg

 

then open your saber in md3view, goto file/import skin...

import your .skin file.

 

then the texture should show up in md3view

then export to .glm

 

there could be other problems that im not aware of because your using milkshape

[Jo]

ahhhhh.... see now one told me to import the skin on the md3 then export as the glm.....so i havent done that....thanks alot man