World's first proper custom Mafia character

[huckleberrypie]

[Duelist]

There's something about the mesh UVW itself that scripts don't "like". It has nothing do to with skinning.

It's the same issue as described here http://mafiascene.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9393

I'll try to look at it. Meanwhile try to import my Trevor or anyother original mafia character, delete skin and apply it with removed values or however are you testing it.

EDIT:
Also in tutorial after adding skin and inserting bones for the first time, first click on X under N, then under M, then under R and now type 0 in the first column, under R again and click remove zero weights.

Last edited by Duelist on Sun Jul 19, 2020 11:51 am; edited 1 time in total

[huckleberrypie]

[Duelist]

No, more like an unmapped face among mapped ones. If you strip this mesh from UVW it exports without problems.

[huckleberrypie]

[Duelist]

Ok, I know what's up. It's not unmapped faces either. These are simply isolated vertices without faces at all. Just click "Remove Isolated Vertices" under Edit Geometry tab for Vertex editing mode. Do this before clicking "Prepare mesh" button or click it again.

[huckleberrypie]

[huckleberrypie]

Looks like we have another problem:

The bone assignments are fine prior to export, but they'd end up like a John Carpenter-esque mess after exporting:


Here's what I did when I reproduced the issue with the Trevor mod. I simply imported the 4DS file of his and exported it without touching anything, and the assignments are messed up royally:


Pudingus also got the same glitch when he tried out the exporter on a vanilla Tommy mesh, also sans modifications:

[Duelist]

Even if you just import it and don't change anything you have to press Prepare mesh button before exporting it back. Try to do this on Trevor or Tommy and let me know if it is still messed up.

Like I mentioned earlier, crucial funtcion changed throughout Max versions so it might be due to this. Which version is Pudingus using? I couldn't test it myself so I was relying on change logs. But now that I'm looking at it I remember different annotations...

[huckleberrypie]

[pudingus]

I'm using 2021

[Duelist]

Mhm, can you import Trevor, click prepare mesh button, select model, select skin and in maxscripts listener pink input window part paste this (print (skinOps.GetBoneName $.skin (skinOps.GetVertexWeightBoneID $.skin 10500 1) 1)) press enter and let me know what it outputs?

[pudingus]

[Duelist]

Try now https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EBVCJSsa6xsCeT62iDchhveOZcIgGlFl/view?usp=sharing

[huckleberrypie]