Model Naming Convention

[Bwian]

Ahh..OK .... so only the first part of the name is important. Anything called 'head_xxxxxxxxxxxx' will get randomly chosen for the units head, and so on. Body, legs, arms and hands.

Choices will be evenly spread between the number of options given, so if I want a particular 'trait' in a model part...I can 'spoof' it by putting a multiple copy of that version in, and it will increase the chance of any given soldier having that part. Makes sense!!

Now...time to stop theorising, and get DOING

[Herkus]

@Bwian
Out of curiosity, which file format are you going to use for exporting your Tomb King's warrior meshes from Max to Milkshape - 3ds, fbx, mk3d ?

[Bwian]

First try will be 3DS. Then I have a couple of other options! FBX didn't seem to work for me at all ( Max 7 ) when I tried to get it into Max from Milkshape. Will try the reverse if 3DS doesn't work. Since I am only really after teh geometry, and will assign the verts to bones in MS3D, I am not too worried.

I would MUCH prefer to be importing the bones and weightings as well though... I have only really used MS3D as a 'cnverting engine' for other game mods I worked on. It was worth the money for that... but it lacks the ability of Max with envelopes etc. Now we have proper vertex weighting, Max would be a big benefit.