Help with Maya gm export plugin

[Trebutor]

Hi,

I got maya 4.5 unlimited and the plugins from pirates ahoy site.
I managed to export a barrel from POTC into Maya, textured it with
a correct UV map (self exported) and the default texture from POTC.

Now when exporting, following the procedure from the wiki page, I just
obtain an empty error.txt file and no other error message.

I am wondering if I have the latest plugin version, especially as my
export window lacks the "ExportCharacterPatch" checkbox, as ashown
on the wiki page :

<a href="http://robotsdontbleed.com/wacko/wakka.php?wakka=ItemsLocators&v=u3k" target="_blank">http://robotsdontbleed.com/wacko/wakka.php...sLocators&v=u3k</a>

Any kind expert nearby who could help me ?

 

[Trebutor]

One step further :

I understood I had to create a locator and make it as the parent
of the textured mesh. Doing so I managed to create a .gm model
but it does not show well in gm_viewer (the mesh is distorted).

If I manage to get it right, I guess I will have to write a complete howto
as noone seems to have one...

Trebutor

 

[Inez Dias]

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That would indeed be much welcome.

Why the model looks distorted I have no idea - could you show a screenshot?
One thing I know is that you have to make sure all triangles are one-sided before exporting, or it will look really weird.
It also seems to have something to do with scale - POTC scale is rougly in meters, so see to it that your barrel has a reasonable size.

 

[Trebutor]

Thanks ! Indeed that was it.
In "Render Stats" I had to unset "Two sided" and set "Opposite"
and that was it. No need for a screenshot, now it looks perfect
under gm_viewer.

I have made a raw howto file, describing how I managed to do this.
I tested it with 2 models only up to now, so some errors might be
included. Sorry.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

This is great, thanks, Trebutor! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[Inez Dias]

Right, thanks alot.