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MadMikeAU
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 Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:28 am Post subject: DeleD 2.45 |
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The other day, I made a tutorial for making eyes. (Need access to the wiki to upload, BTW)...and noticed a few things...
1) Edge mode: Scale works but the Scale Properties dialog doesn't do anything.
2) Transparency does not affect the 3D view.
3) .X exporter doesn't export transparency.
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4) When a primitive is assigned to a skeleton, it no longer appears in the scene navigator. This is frustrating as to make even a minor change (say to UV or material), you have to unassign it from the skeleton, make the change then reassign it, then reassign each joint, etc, etc.
5) (Feature request) Bone weights. At the moment, vertices are assigned to one joint only. |
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adr
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1) Doesn't work for me either.
2) Still works for me in the 3D view.
3) Mine still exported transparency.
4 and up) The skeleton feature is still new and still needs a lot of work. That is one of the issues with it right now. Along with it not being able to be saved out into a .x. Also the reason why you don't see a lot of people using it.... With a lot of people not using it right now, the feature has been on the lower pir.... I think once it starts having a few issues fixs, it'll be one of the most used features of Deled... |
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:18 am Post subject: |
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About the wiki account: see this topic. 
1. Yep, that's a bug right there. Community, fix this! 
2. Indeed, as adr says, it should still work. What have you tried to get this working for you?
3. Don't know about that really, sorry. I have no real experience with transparency in DeleD in general.
4. Is by design because it saved me from having to implement a lot more administrative code to make sure everything is in sync after making changes to primitives that are also assigned to skeletons. I realize this is not the most user-friendly approach and encourage anyone to improve on this.
5. That's indeed a very nice request. I don't have enough time to implement such a thing (it's not a simple bugfix  ) but am more than willing to assist anyone who wants to give it a try.
About the animation system... if bone weights are implemented, would that really make DeleD much more attractive as animation modeller, as adr says?
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MadMikeAU
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:27 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies.
Rereading this, I can see that 2) and 3) are probably related. I set the transparency in the material editor. hmmm...maybe I am screwing that up...i'll try again and report back.
I think adr is referring to the fact that DeleD's exporters not exporting animations (except Milkshape that I recently added animations to, of course).
And I know 5 is a big undertaking  but if you don't put it out there.... |
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MadMikeAU
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Regarding (2)...I only get transparency if I set the blend mode to Modulate. |
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adr
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| About the animation system... if bone weights are implemented, would that really make DeleD much more attractive as animation modeller, as adr says? |
I would have to say yes, but we needs to fixs the issue that is slowing down the call for this type of feature. I remember when it first came out and everyone wanted a little more and more from the animation modeller. As the animation modeller never got support from the plugins, a lot of people stop using it. I know we, as the cummunity, needs to fixs this, but until that happens, no one is going to say, "I want that."
What came first? The chicken or the egg sort of idea thinking.
Talking about it here doesn't help either ^^;
2) I know silly questions, but may help find the answer. Are you using a type of exc that supports the channel such as a .png? Are you sure that this type of file has transparency in it?
3) Are you setting your texture to Modulate and then saving it out? If so, I'm not sure if that'll save out as a transparency texture. (I just check... using the .x exported doesn't save the images as .png or some type of channel handling image.) This could be said as a bug. |
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MadMikeAU
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adr:
1) As I said before, the M3D exporter now exports animations. I have started work on a FBX exporter, but no promises on the speed of success there
2) + 3) I am using the color option instead of a texture. You can set a transparency level at the material level, so the contents of the texture is implied to be irrelevant. |
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AWM Mars
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MadMikeAU
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| ok. I got it working with alphablend. When I set the color, it has an alpha value in the color picker....and the transparency slider does nothing, apparently. Thats OK. Thanks, AWM Mars. |
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