Blender To C4

[Jack]

If you show me an example that will work with C4 I´ll invest some time to get it working.

[hpcorona]

This should be the default exporter. Good job Jack!

[Amo]

I'll pm you.

[Phoenix]

I´ve trouble to get this animation into c4. I´m pretty shure that should work but it does not. Importing (and saving as model) works very fine but the animation is allways scaled out and it should not.

I´ve upload two files. One is DAE-Geometry and that another DAE-Animation of that geometry.

Eric, please take a look at that.

Test_DAE.rar

I know I'm responding to an older post but:

When you mention a "scaled out" problem, are you referring to this issue, or is this something else entirely? Our team is using Blender and I was wondering if your exporter duplicates the fixes in the thread I just linked, so should we remove them, if so?

edit: After looking at that link I mentioned, it appears that since we wouldnt be using the old Collada scripts if we switched to yours, that it wouldnt be an issue...we're kinda new Blender users here so sorry for the noob questions.

[Jack]

No that was not that issue. The proplem was here to bake the scale to geometry in blender before exporting to c4.

[martinck]

Hi Jack,

Are your exporter suitable for blender 2.5

[Jack]

No, the python-API has changed. Perhaps if Blender (release) is out, I´ll rewrite the exporter.

[Jack]

I´ve added support for exporting the second uv-channel.

C4_Collada_Exporter.rar

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[hpcorona]

Nice.

[martinck]

Thank you Jack

[mmelo]

I´ve added support for exporting the second uv-channel.

C4_Collada_Exporter.rar

Very nice... thanks!

[Niteen Hatle]

Jack,

I'm facing this problem while exporting from blender. Please check the image attached. I can see only half of the export window. What could be causing this? Otherwise your exporter is working great. How do I make the whole export dialog show up?

Thanks.

Niteen.

[Jack]

To get rid of that you could maximize the Blender window (you screen resolution is to small) or download the bugfix.

export_c4.rar

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[Niteen Hatle]

Wonderful!

Thank you very much, Jack.

Niteen.

PS:- Still using old 15in CRT

[Amo]

Hi Jack, it works like a charm!

However, you would earn yourself a godlike status with a file browser for the export
I need to leave now, reimporting a crapload of models...

[Amo]

OK, a few things I recognized when working with it:

From time to time the exporter crashs and melts blender too. Till yet it only occured, when exporting several selected models spread over different layers.

The models gets exported with a Z rotation of 90 degree which is unneccessary.

No big deals at all, because the "standard" blender collada exporter leads also to crashs and rotating the objects back to 0 is also easy to do. Just wanted to report it.

[Jack]

From time to time the exporter crashs and melts blender too. Till yet it only occured, when exporting several selected models spread over different layers.

Yes, I known about this bug and I don´t really known what is going wrong because it crashes from time to time. I suppose that is Python-API crashing the blender.

[mohrens]

Somehow this does not work for me.
Blender 2.492 and C4 1.5.9. I test the test file and my own file, C4 crashes as I import (only if I have an armature). Do you have different versions?

Now the fbx ->convert to DAE route does not work either any more, even in the beginning of this year (older versions) I had no problems.

[Jack]

No, I´ve the same version. What Python version do you have installed?

[Amo]

From time to time the exporter crashs and melts blender too. Till yet it only occured, when exporting several selected models spread over different layers.

Yes, I known about this bug and I don´t really known what is going wrong because it crashes from time to time. I suppose that is Python-API crashing the blender.

Possible. On the other hand, I had several blender chrashes in the past, all collada related. The standard 1.4 exporter leads also often to crashes. Anyway. I love this exporter, it removed all glitches I had with FBX way. Even both textures of double UV materials get recognized which is more than I had expected. It also keeps the mat ids (which does not happen when going the FBX way and which turns LOD importing into a real pain...) what to say more than just: AWESOME!

[mohrens]

OK, this test one works for me, but it does not work for my own models (model + armature, model alone works).
To check, here is the sequence:

Make the mash
Create the armature (There should be nothing special there)
Parent the mash to the armature (ctrl-p) (I use from envelop, and then weight paint)
[[if I import now it works but only the mash shows]]
Make the armature real (so the modifiers get generated)
[[If I import now C4 crashes]]

So the modifiers seem to cause the problem.

What am I missing ? Any help is welcome !!

[Eric Lengyel]

Can you send me a DAE file that causes the C4 Collada importer to crash?

[Jack]

Me too, please.

[mohrens]

PM send to both of you with the file, thanks

[Jack]

The reason is that not all vertices are skinned. All vertices have to be weight painted. If you disable Envelope deforming in the Armature modyfier you will see what vertices are not affected by vertex groups.