3ds Max users help.

I can help you with it, just upload the models here.

Interesting…
I use some models comming from the same website, in .blend format, and export them to .obj, then import it in milkshape, but models are not correctly imported, some faces disappear, and the “gray” texture is partially black or shadered on some parts…

So if .max exported to obj is better, let me know, i will give it a try…

i’d have such a request, too, although here we’re talking about a pretty high-poly model… dunno the exact count.

Beware that some faces may be reversed if you see’em black or strangely shaded in MS3D.
And remember that FL doesn’t show up reversed faces. Deselect “draw backfaces” in MS3D and then whatyou’llseeiswhatyou’llget in FL.

Max to 3ds format might give better results if you have mikshape import problems with the obj format. I ran into this with the ships i’m working on atm, and saving them to 3ds did the trick

Hash wrote:
Beware that some faces may be reversed if you see’em black or strangely shaded in MS3D.
And remember that FL doesn’t show up reversed faces. Deselect “draw backfaces” in MS3D and then whatyou’llseeiswhatyou’llget in FL.

will try this… thanks

And then try:
face - smooth all

its paul trenklers famous enterprise-e.

I dont remember if NUGRAF can import .max files then export it to .3ds, .obj or .anythingelse…

Check NUGRAF website, it this conversion is available, test it with the demo version…

Here you go. I didn’t know what to do with the 3rd one because you alredy exported it…

I don’t think it matters wether it is 3DS or OBJ format, both of the models include too much verticies and Milkshape can’t read so much. You should delete unnescesary objects like turrets and other things that you want.
Resend the models after youre done.

Nightstalker mentioned in the past that he had to break high poly models into pieces. I would imagine you should basically cut the model in half, import the two halves into milkshape and merge them together.

I’ve tried it long time ago, and it doesn’t really work. I had a high-poly station that I broke to 3 parts, but Milkshape could import and hold only 1 part at a time.

What you do is import one part of the mesh, save it as a ms3d file. Create new file, import second part of mesh, then use the merge function to import the part you saved earlier. You can merge all manner of objects so long as you save them as .ms3d files.

With the higher poly models, they can cause milkshape to crash anyway due to the amount of poly`s it is trying to deal with. Thats where multi part .cmp comes into it.

On a side note, I just had a quick look at the models you up`ed and noticed some of the textures are rectangular. FL only recognises SQUARE textures. Took me a while to find that out when my textures look rubbish in game but fine in max + milkshape. Just add a section of pure black(alpha) to the shortest side of the texture to make it up to a square.

Iceman

You don’t need to add black alpha to the texture, just resize it to make it square in photoshop (if dds). To your eye’s it might look squashed, but in game it will look completely normal.