Strat Map Models Reloaded

[Alletun]

if your going into unit making this might help you out. it also covers basic photoshop:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1672

[Averroës]

if your going into unit making this might help you out. it also covers basic photoshop:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1672

Indeed! I already have it downloaded. One of the best written tutorials on TWC, by the way. Easy to understand and follow. Don't know what we'd do without you, Alletun!

[Werebear]

I have this message when i try to export .cas "mesh object helm_1 must have bone as it parent". Whats wrong?

[Werebear]

And can you make tutorial how to merge unit and weapon textures. And how to add weapon texture to strat model, plz...

[il_duce_!]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering, is it possible to have one general/king strat model per faction ? I want to use different models for all factions.

[wilddog]

I was just wondering, is it possible to have one general/king strat model per faction ? I want to use different models for all factions.

you can have one for each king, each heir and some of the named characters if you really want to in Kingdoms (not sure what the max limit is). Can also have different princess models as well.

[il_duce_!]

Great, thanks a lot.

I will do that. One model for each king\faction.

[Dimitri_Harkov]

You can have an almost unlimited number of stratmap-models. Even different ones for each faction. My mod is currently set up for 5 unique stratmodels per faction.

The stratmodels depend on the 'level' effect of some traits. These are modable and I've not yet reached any limit for that level.

Cheers!

[Icedie El Guaraní]

This an error i got from what i did:
I convert a .cas file with goat then i open it in milkshape and export the strat model into 3ds format later i import this file in gmax and i got no skeleton(bones9 any suggestions

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Welcome to MAXScript.

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Beginning file import
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Read triangle section: 1976 triangles read...

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For group 2, we have 824 triangles, with a Milkshape material index of 0
For group 3, we have 612 triangles, with a Milkshape material index of 0
For group 4, we have 176 triangles, with a Milkshape material index of 0
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Localpos: (6.1739e-005, 0.234973, 0.0), localrot: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
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Read weighting section, read 1234 secondary Ids, primary weights, and secondary weights...
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And when i run the script CAS_IE_b79.ms i only get half of the tools available

The i marked the part missing and i only get this:


What to do? or gmax i limited in this?

[KnightErrant]

@Icedie of South

You won't have any luck with Gmax for strat map models. Vercingetorix's
script might import them, but since Gmax doesn't support writing binary
files, you would never be able to get them back out with his script.
.3ds doesn't support bones so that's why you don't see them. My
importerexporter script doesn't work for strat map models because Alletun's
tutorial already showed Max users how to do strat map models directly so
I didn't think it was necessary.
(Sorry, sort of let down the Gmax users there.)

Since you have Milkshape though, any problem with working on the strat
map models there?

[Icedie El Guaraní]

damn it!! i can open the strat model in milkshape but there is no way to make a battle_model into a strat_map model or if i have to make new faces in milkshape is relatively slow and boring cause does not have the tools available in gmax and i can´t use Blenser becuase of some stupid bug.
Do you know another way around to make this possible?

[KnightErrant]

@Icedie of South

Here's a link to a tutorial I did awhile back.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=139169

It's how to substitute a M2TW mailed_knight for a
late_northern_general strat model just using Milkshape and the
converter buttons. (It was written when the strat model converter
was a standalone script.) This might be something like what you want to do.

[Icedie El Guaraní]

Thanks KE problem solve!!

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

Hey Alletun, first of all congrats for the great job you are doing.
I have 3ds max 5.1
When I reach this part:

6.1: You export pretty much the same way as you import. Export the cas as "late_general_northern.cas", and after that export it as "northern_general.cas"

I cannot find an option to export as "cas". Could it be that I have an old version of the program?

[Alletun]

see the top of this picture (it's from the tut):
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/6...portcastc6.jpg

There's 3 bars, one called "R:TW Exporter". Expand the bar and click export.

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

SILLY ME!
Thanks.

[phoenix[illusion]]

so, as .cas that i made didn't work in m2tw, i've tried to import it back in 3ds max.
this message appears
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1463/debugger.jpg

???

[Saladin]

do you assign weapons to the right hand bone? when i do that the weapon gets moved and is positioned above the model, when i try to move it back into place, it goes further away. will the weapon be alright if i leave rigged to torso?

[Peteriscoolz]

I tryed doing this with Gmax but it dosent work...

[KovacDerSchmied]

the tutorial is good,but i've got a problem with milkshape when exporting,it says that i must register,can someone give me a link for full downloading milkshape 1.8.1 ??? please