Mafia World Editor

[Ventilator]

Lining up Axis,
I don't know if you mean Centre Axis,

In Zmodeler Choose Display / Centre Axis then click on the Mesh...

Regards
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[Mr Robville]

A quicker way is removing the distance settings from the 4ds file using djbozkosz' 4ds manager: mafiascene.com/modules.php?name=downloads&action=get_download&id=125

1. Open the model with the manager
2. Go to the objects tab
3. Click on the object you want to use for far distances
4. Within the settings panel on the right, there should be what I believe is called the LoD ratio or distance which is per default set to 4000 or something. Change this to 0 and save the 4ds file again.

Now it should work fine within the game and you don't need to duplicate the mesh twice in Zmodeler- which not only is a pain to align the axis again, it also makes the model twice as heavy.
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[AsaSK]

I ended up doing both, one for each model (I only saw Rob's post later). Thanks both of you!

Incidentally, is it just me that Zmodeler crashes for when trying to export high-poly meshes to .4ds?
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[Mr Robville]

No, Zmodeler becomes quite unstable when exporting models with more than 40K polygons. It's adviced to divide eveything in separate models if you have a complex scene.
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[AsaSK]

Ah.. my base terrain currently stands at two and a half million Will do
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[AsaSK]

I don't know if ASM will see this, but the experimental build of MWE (v0.4.0) is having issues with lightmapping some surfaces. Both a road and a building turned a transparent dark blue-ish colour when I used the LMG, but the odd thing is this happens intermittently and seemingly indiscriminately.
Sometimes I have to go back and lightmap the surface with the previous stable build, but this doesn't work when you have that single-colour channel glitch that happens on some models, so you do need v0.4.0 really.

Anyone with the experimental build ever had this or know a way around it?
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[ASM.]

[AsaSK]

[ASM.]

[AsaSK]

[AsaSK]

Here are some screens to accompany, though they're obviously from an older version of MWE (the problem affects all versions). Sorry, I meant to upload these sooner


BEFORE: The freshly-lightmapped model




AFTER: Upon saving and re-opening it has disappeared




MEANWHILE: There is still a lightmap entry shown in DC||ED




Edit: Sorry for the double post.
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[ASM.]

Thanks for the screenshots. I think I know what's wrong. The name of the instance has two dots. Dots are used for addressing children, so 4build15112.Mesh01 for example refers to the child Mesh01 of object 4build15112. Having two dots in the name confuses MWE and, from what it seems, the game, rendering them unable to associate the lightmap with the mesh.

You should be able to fix the issue by simply removing the first dot from the name (so it becomes 4build153i3d242373.4build154). The lightmaps should then be rendered again in the game and in MWE. Note that if you rename the objects via MWE, you'll have to rebuild lightmaps for them.

Also note that MWE informs you via the log if it is unable to resolve a lightmap reference during load. When loading your mission, you should see the line

[AsaSK]

ASM you're brilliant, thank you so much. What a silly mistake to make

I did some more lightmapping and MWE crashed on certain buildings, and after fiddling around in DC||ED trying to find which lightmap to delete to 'un-crash' it, I fixed it. I concluded that sometimes the editor doesn't like lightmapping models with other buildings as parents. Would I be correct in thinking this?
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[ASM.]

Hm don't really have an idea what could be causing this to be honest. Do you mind uploading your mission somewhere so I can try to reproduce the crash on my rig?

[AsaSK]

I'd love to but unfortunately MWE isn't working properly at the moment and it's the program itself.. I've asked for help on a PC forum so hopefully I get it running again properly soon.