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Virtue - Jedi Council  |
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I decided to write a detailed tutorial on how to build Lightsaber Hilts for JK3.If you're interested, check it out; Lightsaber Crafting 101 Any questions or comments? Just ask in this thread.  - Virtue.  _______________ Academy Architect |
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Ranius - Student |
where should the MD3 Exporter plugin be unzipped?? _______________ as long as there is light, there is darkness. if i won't win fighting i will win dying... |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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All right, thanks Virtue _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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Yes, the large hexagon with a hole in the middle is the top and bottom sides of the rings. I just opened them all out so they were flat, then stacked them on top of eachother, don't worry about making them too neat, people will hardly ever see them, anyways. - Virtue. _______________ Academy Architect |
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R2D2 - Staff
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About the UVW mapping, what did you do with the remaining part of the rings after you unwrapped the sides of the rings? It looks like you just resized them and the ends of the saber, but I want to make sure. _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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Hmm, Virtue, about that UVW mapping, I dont see the little nifty rectangle. Only the two little polygons for manipulation. Help please I occassionally see glimpses of the rectangle on perspective view when I'm rotating. Nvm, I just relected the hilt heh, selected the polygon option and clicked on the hilt and the box showed up, sneaky stuff. _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist This comment was edited by R2D2 on Aug 06 2005 10:11pm. |
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Raydoe_Mintaka - Student 
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ive like mastered making saber hilts now and im getting use to the UVW thingy lol im a born master at making these lol _______________ There is no dominant stance of power. The Power is in the user.... Holder of Lucky-Adept 222th post and 92 Lucky Charm yay XD.Zadus 50th comment!Pink Floyd Mintaka700th comment Rin_Mintaka 900th comment! ARGGGGGHHH MATEY!!!!!!! Quote: You are pretty tricky with red single heh
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R2D2 - Staff
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Yub yub, just extract those textures out. _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor 
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Is there a site by any chance I could DL custom textures from? I know I can use those from the game itself, but next to that, it'd be great if they were downloadable. The less I gotta do the better  Nah, j/k, they'd serve either as a template or example  EDIT: nvm, I found out how 2 get some. Just Dl custom hilts _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. This comment was edited by Dash Starlight on Aug 03 2005 10:39am. |
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SaZ - Student 
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yeah i think that thing is 2d so it disappears at some angles while watching from 3d view _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor
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Oooooh, it 'disappears' when u move it? If so, all u need to do is to zoom out, and/or adjust the angle of ur view _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. |
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Stig - Student 
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Its not that, it is the fact i can't actually see the triangle at all. Is it possible for somebody to send me the lightsaber md3 as mine seems to be corrupt _______________ Proud Padawan of Setementor -Saber good, Pistol Bad- Owner of DarthMike's 200th Comment, My paddy brother Grycen's 100th Comment, Raydoe_Mintaka's 347th Comment, TheDestroyer's 615th Comment, Jedifire_Mintaka's 66th Comment and My cool master Setementor's 7500th Comment!!! (Offer me more everybody!!!) |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor
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The way i did it was to check all of my viewports (Top, left, right, etc.) and make the triangle look like a perfectly straight line. When done right, the triangle is placed correctly make sure u put it EXACTLY on the emitter, as well as in its very centre Again, the viewports'll help u doing taht _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. |
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Stig - Student
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i can't seem to see the triangle that makes the blade go in the right direction. i can see it in bottom left screen and i can see the the other triangle in both screens. What do i do??? _______________ Proud Padawan of Setementor -Saber good, Pistol Bad- Owner of DarthMike's 200th Comment, My paddy brother Grycen's 100th Comment, Raydoe_Mintaka's 347th Comment, TheDestroyer's 615th Comment, Jedifire_Mintaka's 66th Comment and My cool master Setementor's 7500th Comment!!! (Offer me more everybody!!!) This comment was edited by Stig on Jul 28 2005 06:11pm. |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor
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Okay, thx for the tips, guys EDIT: Weee it worked my hilt's fully unwrapped now ^^ Thx again _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. This comment was edited by Dash Starlight on Jul 25 2005 02:33pm. |
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Tsaun Fwi - Student 
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Oh **** i have yet another problem  lolYou see when i export my saber as a .MD# from Gmax its fine. Tehn however, i make the .skin file and try loading it onto the .md3 file in MD3 view. However it either says it cant find teh saber)w .jpg or it cant find "saber_w" surface in teh MD3. Any solutions? _______________ Basic m**********r do you speak it? |
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Tsaun Fwi - Student 
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Damn, explanation was for nothing- LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _______________ Basic m**********r do you speak it? |
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DaMi3N - Padawan 
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imo it doesent matter dash skin will be inverted then so it only matters when u have writings on it. u'll have to mirror them then. like Virtue |
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Tsaun Fwi - Student
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Quote: Imagine Im unwrapping my hilt, and the 2d shapes I get look okay, but inverted. Like, the diagonal line in each rectangle banks to the right '/' instead of the left '\'. Is that good, managable, or utterly bad? I dont think it's much of a problem, but I just MIGHT have unwrapped things inverted LOL! Dash i think thats because you have to select the left side of teh vertices when you have the "filter selected" on. Then break vertices about 6 times?Then deselect tehm and reselect and move them to teh right hand side. Ohh and another thing i think others might find useful as i did. Also, when you go back to selecting more faces, select the other vertices you didnt breal then close the unrapping box. Once you have selected more go back to the screen for unwrapping and you will have had teh vertices already selected. I broke teh vertices from there like that. I found that keeping them selecting before reopening the unwrapping box broke teh vertices properly. Now that should work but hey, there you go! _______________ Basic m**********r do you speak it? This comment was edited by Tsaun Fwi on Jul 21 2005 05:21pm. |
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Krazzed - Student 
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the wrap it back up and do it non inverted lol _______________ (\__/) (O.o ) (> < ) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination. |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor
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Imagine Im unwrapping my hilt, and the 2d shapes I get look okay, but inverted. Like, the diagonal line in each rectangle banks to the right '/' instead of the left '\'. Is that good, managable, or utterly bad? I dont think it's much of a problem, but I just MIGHT have unwrapped things inverted LOL! _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. |
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Tsaun Fwi - Student
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Ok now this may seem to be teh most stupid question ever but where do i export the MD3 export files. I put them all in teh scripts folder tehn the plugins folder then the stdplug folder (or something) and all it says is can't initialize import.dli or export.dle. Any suggestions? _______________ Basic m**********r do you speak it? |
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Azrael - Student 
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Are there any major differences if you use 3DS Max 7 instead of Gmax? _______________ The first step to knowing everything is knowing that you know nothing. The first step to knowing nothing is thinking that you know everything. If I'm going to suffer, I might as well suffer in a way that makes someone else happy. Never argue with an idiot. They'll lower you to their level and beat you with experience. |
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Tsaun Fwi - Student
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Unrapping is tedious but and i think im doing i wrong lol _______________ Basic m**********r do you speak it? |
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SaZ - Student 
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yeah unwraping is real pain. actually i failed doing that... _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor 
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Thanks, lol, saves me the trouble of having to unwrap over and over again, each time i made a mistake LOL I have unwrapped 80 per cent of it now btw, and its SAVED EDIT: Woa, i need to learn how to spell  _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. This comment was edited by Dash Starlight on Jul 14 2005 11:36pm. |
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