B AATools. V0.5a <--!! + tutorial see pg. 2

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:56 pm

hmm... bug?

ok, the polygon problem:
blender the script only reads triangles, triangulate your quads with ctrl-t before export.

also, blender models have an object rotation that's not taken into account, i.e. if something looks right with a rotation of 90 degrees in object mode, it will come out 90 degrees off because the exporter only reads mesh data, without applying rotation data.

try alt-r to clear rotation (in object mode) to see the real orientation of your model
also, use ctrl-a to apply rotation if it's wrong. it will export exactly like it imports, so import the base model and make sure yours has the same basic size and rotation.

I'll look into it and make sure it's not a bug, but it seems to work fine in linux so I'll try windows. (hmm... can you send me your model in .blend format (mcmillanje@gmail.com) so I can debug the dropped polys problem?)

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:11 am

TUTORIAL!!!!
it's at my page, here:
http://www.addertooth.net/aatools/aatools_tutorial.html

pictures and more!

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:42 am

Your suggestions solved the 2 problems i had, thanks. If something goes wrong while i'm still goofing around with it i'll report the problem here.

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:59 am

hey, check out svn if you want a sneak-peek at the gui! aatools.py is now somewhat functional! (import works, export does nothing right now)

hey, and import automatically offsets models like they are displayed!

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:43 am

so I was going to wait till tomarrow...
...well I got bored....
so now we have version 0.5a which includes a gui!! now aatools.py actually exists (instead of just placeholder).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/aatools/

it's all fairly self-explanitory, I'll edit my tutorial tomarrow to include gui instructions...

EDIT: if you take out my double-posting (shameful...) post-count is:
me:9 (really like 14)
others:6
does this mean no one has anything to say, or that it's not neat/exciting/useful, or that nobody cares, or that everyone hates me, or that it's just plain boring, or you guys don't post as much as I'm used to on other forums?

ed · Post by ed » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:01 am

I think it's a great tool.
Trouble is for me, as I'm sure it is for many others, I tinkered with a few 3d packages a while back yet have no blender knowledge.
Maybe you should release a few bikes you've made. That might encourage more of us to take the plunge and have a go ourselves.

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:09 am

I actually think its really neat, and i'll probably try to make a model someday, but I've got no blender experience whatsoever so I didn't see a reason to post.

Keep up the good work.

Killer Rabbit · Post by **Killer Rabbit** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:13 am

"When i don't have anything to say i generally STFU"

Quoted from Z-Man

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:29 pm

I think it's awesome, it's just that I'm not graphically inclined... in fact I'm graphically challanged, so...

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:58 pm

thanks guys... ok, I'm good now

anyway, good idea ed, I'll post some later today (prolly, unless someting comes up), hmm... I also need to add textures support.

ok, plans:

v0.5a -where we are
goals:
v0.5 -finish .5 by adding individual export-import buttons...
v0.6a -automatic texture import
v0.6 -finish .6 by adding texture export/draw tools
v0.7 -add tabbed gui, built in examples

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:46 am

oooh colors!

-gui work... now in svn.

note: I'll show some bikes soon, but right now I just cant resist all the pretty colors!!!!

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:44 am

ok, i promised... here's one cycle I made...

a .gif pan around from blender:
http://www.addertooth.net/aatools/cycle1.gif

attached is an in-game screenie,

and the dload:
http://www.addertooth.net/aatools/models.zip

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:52 am

srry for the double post... here's another model made by this script that's a little closer to the original...

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:15 am

In .5a, you have two readme files , both need .txt added at the end. And export all only exports the cycle_body file. Very nice work so far. How's texture import/output coming?(/me is horrible with texturing models in blender)

jessethemidget · Post by **jessethemidget** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:13 am

do you have windows?

I'll look into the problem...

as textures go, I've added a tab to the gui, and I've been working on plans for the library and functions, It'll probably take some tweaking to get it to look the same as in arma...

does armagetron just apply the textures side-on directly (stretch as needed) or is there a didferant way? Maybe I go source-code diving again...