Help with Misfit 3D MD5 exporter

CD Xbow | 2012-06-13 03:18

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Again we have nearly managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! We really need some help with this MD5 exporter for Misfit3D that we developed which works almost perfectly. For windows there is a recompiled binary with the exporter rolled in and for the Linux version of Misfit there is a plugin.

At present the exporter works perfectly for the mesh and the animations. You export your model by selecting "Export" or "Save As" and typing .md5 or .md5mesh as your file extension. The exporter will then produce a xxxx.md5mesh, a xxxxx.mdanim for all animations and a prototype md5.cfg. If the animations are named they are spat out with that name. If they are not named then you get one, very big animation file with them all in. Best to name them first! It is very efficient if you name them first.

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One of the tags problems was due to space names in the models bones. This is a big no-no.

The most important thing is you must NOT use the Misfit tags. If you use the tags the md5 model will stuff up. Read the wiki and download from the sourceforge site - http://sourceforge.net/projects/misfitcubed/

We have a battle armor model - http://teamxbow.org/cube/models/misfit/battle_armor2_v04.zip and a human walker mek http://teamxbow.org/cube/models/models-mek/mek6_v04.zip that are in Misfit format and the animations are set up ready to export. I have already posted these in the RE forums.

Now go forth and mekaply!

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Suicizer | 2012-06-13 15:39

I managed to make your exporter crash after doing your steps (no idea what the reason is, somehow it does load another model).

Off-topic, yet export-related;
Maybe you could also make an md5 exporter for Milkshape3D, a more professional program (yet still very simple unlike Blender)?

Edit:
After starting to rig another playermodel, I noticed the following which maybe could solve the problem;
Cube Engine 2 will offsets the coordinates of the child-mesh from the parent-mesh. So if the child-mesh has the coordinates 0, 50, 25; then it will offset the mesh 0 units on it's x-axis, 50 units on it's y-axis and 25 on it's z-axis.
That's why it's important to make sure the child-mesh is having no coordinates at overall, but still being near the surface of the child mesh which you want to attach a surface of the parent mesh.

I still need to investigate some more on this...

I hope that solves it, it's not a very clear screenshot to me (could be a higher resolution).

CD Xbow | 2012-06-13 23:17

Thanks very much for having a look.

I am sure it is something to do with the parent/child reletionship wrt to tags. I tried 'fixing' them last night by placing each tag below its parent but it just gave me a different mangled mek. To look on the bright side, at least I know what level the problem is! I have uploaded a higher res image to the folder with the exporter.

wrt Milkshape - you are right about it in that respect, but I am trying very hard to be open and cross-platform, plus I find I am much quicker to do things in Misfit, and its an orphan, needing love. Also Milkshape doesn't support tags/point objects. You have to fake it with a vertex.

wrt to crashing, was that nix or windows?

Suicizer | 2012-06-14 16:35

.. what means wrt?

CD Xbow | 2012-06-14 22:54

Sorry. It must be pre texting shorthand. I don't know any modern texting except btw
wrt = with respect to

btw I am going to reassign the tags influences and reexport, which probably wont work, but then I am going to replace the tags in the original with a bone (again with just one influence) named as a tag. Then I will compare the exported md5. In theory that mesh should work, and the 'tag bones' should look tags and be treated as such without having been stuffed around in the export.

Convoluted, eh!

Suicizer | 2012-06-14 23:03

I'm not sure about that, as a bone consists out of more than just 1 point. You can always try though.

CD Xbow | 2012-07-02 03:08

It works, it works, it works. But not quite as planned.

I spent many long and dreary hours trying to get the proper misfit tags to work, but the model always screwed up with bits twisted incorrectly. The same model without tags would load perfectly. So with the inspiration, a tag is a bone, I simply named a few bones tag_weapon, tag_head etc, and it works perfectly.

I have set up a SF site http://sourceforge.net/projects/misfitcubed/ Go to the files section, there are 3 folders, one with a linux plugin, one with a window install and one with samples. The download button at SF always seems to point at the last download.

The wiki contains instructions to make an MD5 production line and a single soldier model example, including a working exported md5 sample that runs around happily in RE. This is not a complete player model, it is an example with some animations.

If anyone can compile this for macOS please do it for us.

CD Xbow | 2012-10-10 07:01

Quick update on the exporter. Basically it is working well, just make sure you have no tags in your model.

In further news, Scott, the developer who did the MD5 exporter, has agreed to keep working on the project. He will hopefully be able to tidy up the exporter a bit before we add some extra functionality. Additional exporters (smd, iqm) are probably the first things. An 'object browser' that enables you to scroll through a list of all the various objects is something that would be useful, Max has something like this and I find it useful.

Glad to hear any suggestions, but I make no promises on implementation.

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