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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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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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When you save your work in Gmax, it saved the UVW unwrap aswell, so yes, it's perfectly safe to do this. - Virtue. _______________ Academy Architect |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor 
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Is there a way to save when uve unwrapped half of ur hilt? Or do u need to unwrap everything at once? And if Im done unwrapping, take a screeny, save, close Gmax ,paint over the screeny, open Gmax later, will that give any problems? _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. |
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Azrael - Student 
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Awesome tutorial Virtue, I look forward to crafting my own lightsaber and using it in the game. Thanks!  _______________ 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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Blackshadow - Student 
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Arghh....the unwrapping UVW bit is so hard  I've got the shape and stuff but I just can't do the UVW bit  |
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Krazzed - Student 
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jk thx for the help in all but im just not doin that stuff anymore cuz my comps harddrive blew and i dont feel like making it al right and stuff and starting ove...i havent done it in like 2 months lol. anyway thx but im done with it. cya around krazzed (not krazed lol j/k( _______________ (\__/) (O.o ) (> < ) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination. |
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JK_Sonaj - Student 
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-Krazzed: Sorry for the misspelling, I fixed it  2. You asked about the cylinder making three times, I thought it worth a shot to describe how to do it properly. Also you had another comment, when someone else had problems with the ,,copied" dots, you said you stuck there as well. Now in my first post you should have the answer to this too. Sorry if you had all the solutions already, ive just tried to help. JK_Sonaj _______________ Control your fear, and you will be able to pick up any girls!
This comment was edited by JK_Sonaj on Jul 05 2005 10:47am. |
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Krazzed - Student
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Quote: -Krazed: First you choose Standard primitives -> Cylinder -> (set height segments, cap segments, sides) -> THEN you click approximately on your blueprints middle and whilst you keep your mousebutton clicked, you start sliding with your mouse, therefore let your cylinder emerging from your mousepinter's ends-dot to a bigger and bigger cylinder, just as you move the mouse. Once the size covers the blueprint's one, you just release the mousebutton, and there you go, you've got your cylinder. ok well 1st off u spelled my name rong (look over there <---------- ) and 2nd off u completly lost me 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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Thx JK_Sonaj, Imma try that, Im sure it'll help _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. |
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JK_Sonaj - Student 
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Well F2 does nothing for me as well But some other things Ive figured out: -Krazzed: First you choose Standard primitives -> Cylinder -> (set height segments, cap segments, sides) -> THEN you click approximately on your blueprints middle and whilst you keep your mousebutton clicked, you start sliding with your mouse, therefore let your cylinder emerging from your mousepinter's ends-dot to a bigger and bigger cylinder, just as you move the mouse. Once the size covers the blueprint's one, you just release the mousebutton, and there you go, you've got your cylinder. -DuckX: Try to do the size of the floating square's sides more look like Virtue's has. -Lepvi Pita: When you move your mousebutton above any of the green square's sideline it will change color, so you can drag and move (and the meantime resize the two directly connected sideline) it. -mojohojojomo, -Rane Jowol: download the latest tempestinstall.exe from the gmax site, then in Total Commander "Ctrl+Page down" on it, so it will open as it would be a simple Zip file, then just copy from the Tempest/plugins subdirectory(subfolder), both files (md3exp.dle and tempest.dlo) to your Gmax's plugins folder. Just a thing to mention, this "ctrl+page down" thing works with .pk3-s as well, so you dont need to stupiding around with the 1000th external program (packspace) if you use Total Commander. (http://www.ghisler.com/) (Its like Norton Comamnder but for windows) -Aiddat: Its not a copy, but the other dots of your cylinder which have gone behind each other, when you turned your cylinder 90 degrees around to make square shape they placed seemingly above each other. Now you can move only one of the dots to the desired position, (you can even do this only EXATLY on 1 axis, when you move your mouse above the appeared little xyz coord symbols (they appear when you click on one of your dots) the desired axis can be highlighted, and clicked on it, you can move your item(your dot) without going any other side direction but the straight.) now you got your dot far enough when you just wished, then you must remember the starting positon and the finish position's distance. This is on the bottom on the screen, X:__ Y:___ or something. When you check it, you will see, both (X an Y) will change, BUT only one of them will change at the end too, even if any movement you did with your dot (if you did with the axis sliding method as above mentioned) now once you know which one has changed permanently X or Y (when you released the mouse button) you just rememeber this new number, and you just type it for all the other seemingly-on-the-same-place or seemingly-copy-of-each-other dots at the starting position. Now when you put the new number to the field, they should just jump to the same position one after another as your desired position is. Dash Starlight: You must deselect and select your dots between each of the clicks on the break selected vertices. you can select by click and hold and move the mousebutton making a square and locate all of the dots at the same time. Then click break, then click somewhere on the empty field (they become deselected) then you select them again (as above) then break again, then deselct, select, break, as many times as you feel okay, but at least 2-3 times the whole thing. Good Luck, I hope that helped JK_Sonaj _______________ Control your fear, and you will be able to pick up any girls!
This comment was edited by JK_Sonaj on Jul 05 2005 10:40am. |
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Claymore - Student 
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OK nevermind i figured that out, i have evreything complete but my winzip wont let me save as a pk3 so i used pakscape to make the pk3. BUt it doesnt show up in the game at all.  _______________ -Your never beaten until you admit it -What counts is not necessarily the size ot the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog |
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Claymore - Student 
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i am haveing trouble with md3 view when i load up my saber it tells me it cant find the texture (jpeg) in the folder (and it is in there, and all the file names are correct) then i try importing the .skin and it tells me the same thing. need some help _______________ -Your never beaten until you admit it -What counts is not necessarily the size ot the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog |
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Dash Starlight - Jedi Instructor
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When Im trying to unwrap, the result of unwrapping one part looks okay when I have the filter on, but the 'trouble' starts when i switch it off. Though I spammed the 'break selected vertices' button countless of times, they still seem to be attached to the main hilt. (Not to each other, btw) Is this bad, and if so, what causes it and how can I 'make it go away?' _______________ The name is Bond. James Bond. |
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Eica - Student 
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F2 doesn't work for some reason, I have to do it manually _______________ Former padawan of RoseRed |
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Kytaro - Student 
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I put my ExportMD3.dle in my plugins, my InportMD3.dli in my scripts but still get that damn error message this is the error btw _______________ Started out as a member of the Jowol family.Afterwards he hid underground to avoid the assasins that where after him. Now.......he's back. |
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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Same here. _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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Krazzed - Student 
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thats where i get stuck lol _______________ (\__/) (O.o ) (> < ) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination. |
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Aiddat - Student 
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When I have to move the blue dots to make the cylinder fit my template, I have two problems: 1. They don't move, it makes a copy that gets moved. 2. Is there a way to move all of them at the same time so they stay in line? _______________ -Aiddat, the Gran with the green blades. "You have a right to be angry, but believe me when I say you don't want to feed that emotion." - Kyle Katarn {Owner of Liso Jowol's 550th comment, Conchris Chaotic's 80th, 150th and 350th comments, Pink Floyd's 200th comment Tyrant's 695th comment, D@RTHM@UL's 10600th comment}, accidentally tricked Pink Floyd into giving me his 1700th comment, I also have Alexander D'Kana's 1950th comment, Mindrith Pride's 1850th comment and I used the same accidental trick on Lewis's 100th comment, and I have Aiddat's 1992nd comment (birthyear), and #Elmo's 450th comment. Unsuccessfully tried to prove Senor Hat's theory wrong. Click for screenshots. Padawan of R2-D2. |
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Padawan - Student |
Quote: yeah thats works to but with gmax 1.2 you get a complie error when trying to use the Exporter oh well happens So it doesn't work with the latest version of Gmax...? Profanities. EDIT: Nevermind, Demostrike found a working plugin. This comment was edited by Padawan on Jun 09 2005 06:06pm. |
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Padawan - Student |
Maybe Krazzed. I'd rather finish Jade Jedi's first before moving onto a new sabre. |
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Krazzed - Student
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mojo can u make me a whole lightsaber plz i just need to remake my blueprint thing cuz my harddrive got all messed up so i need to make another 1 when i get my new harddrive ill just send it to u if u will do this for me after i make it again. if u dont its kool ill just forget about it or find som1 else. krazzed _______________ (\__/) (O.o ) (> < ) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination. |
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Padawan - Student |
I'd be happy to do either, Jade Jedi. I've added you to MSN, so I'll talk to you when you come online. |
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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I have the blueprint done but I get up to edit vertex and as far as Polygon Editing tool and then Im lost. If anyone could help or is willing to make a hilt for me just contact me on msn, ts or anywhere. Also F2 didn't seem to do anything when pressed after selecting polygon editing tool. _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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Krazzed - Student
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i would have no clue i cant even get a cylinder lol thats how good im at modeling _______________ (\__/) (O.o ) (> < ) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination. |
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Padawan - Student |
Hey, great job on the tutorial, it's awesome! I need a little help though, 'cause I got stuck at the UVW Map . When I tell it to do it, I don't get an orange square...The only thing I know I've done differently to the tutorial is using more than one object, but I grouped them and 'Converted to Editable Mesh' so it shouldn't change it... should it? Any help will be much appreciated . This comment was edited by Padawan on Jun 06 2005 07:13pm. |
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Scythus Aratan - Student 
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Use the uniform scale tool and either click and drag or type a scale factor in the box at the bottom. _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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