hi all i am trying to make a h2 marine with different heads just like the h1 marine

but i need to add model permutations to a model

just like the h1 marine model

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8534/1111h.jpg

does any know how to add those to a model?
Edited by gamegodlazy on Apr 23, 2009 at 03:23 PM

Export multiple .jms in data\characters\h2marine\models folder.
So like,
head1.jms
head2.jms
head3.jms

When tool compiles, it will compile them all into the same gbxmodel.

thank you a lot man

i finnaly understadn what masterz was saying with all in the same folder

+1 rep to you meh friend

no no no no!

you don't export the HEADS, you have to export it as a whole biped!

you can use the layers manager to do it quickly, mai sekret hax, but you just have to unhide what you want to export, that means the WHOLE biped

then you have to set up shaders for every different material, and it will spawn randomly, otherwise you get random floating heads, a mistake i made myself too

E1: yea the same folder is logical, since you order tool to compile a folder, you can do this for every model you want, even scenery, but keep in mind that you cannot compile more than 200 jms files, when i did that it crashed, could be that my folder was already too big but try not to compile 200 different perms
Edited by BeachParty clan on Apr 24, 2009 at 05:28 AM

Um, I'm pretty sure the halo 1 elite heads were exported as different heads, not the whole body.

how would it load a permutation if the body has to stay there? it loads on random, so i don't know how you want to make it half-random lol

maybe... there was this checkbox "not load on random" but that made the perm not load at all.. nvm
Edited by BeachParty clan on Apr 24, 2009 at 06:35 AM

the h1 elites have diffrent heads as a model
not a whole model

so does teh h1 marine heads
and for johnses his arms and head

regions and permutations are used.
The heads need to be in a head region, while the body is in it's own region. For each head, select all it's faces, and type "head" in the blank drop down list box on the right of the toolbar above. This puts them in a region.

All the nodes get exported with every permutation export.

marine_armored's models folder would list these files:
__base.jms (*all regions)
sgt_johnson-100.jms (*arms and head regions)

head_charles_helmet-10.jms
head_chris_helmet-11.jms
head_marcus_cap-101.jms
head_matt_helmet-12.jms
head_rob_helmet-13.jms
head_shiek_helmet-14.jms

damaged torso-102.jms

*: also has LOD permutations, so there's five of those .jms files, like:
superhigh__base.jms
high__base.jms
medium__base.jms
low__base.jms
superlow__base.jms

or maybe the naming is reversed, like
__base superhigh.jms
__base high.jms
__base medium.jms
__base low.jms
__base superlow.jms
i forget

Export specific markers when appropriate for the exported permutation/region.


Tools menu -> Layer Manager
very handy.
Edited by bobbysoon on Apr 24, 2009 at 03:22 PM

oke let me see if i got this right

I need to make a folder
and if i want 3 heads for the marines

then i should do the following

Add 1 jms model named

__base.jms (main body)

then add 3 jms files in the same folder
like this

head1.jms
head2.jms
head3.jms

then rig and export the thing and it should be good?

also i dont get the lod stuff

In Max, regions are Face Selections. Name the face selections by selecting a region (head or body) and entering the name for that region in the empty drop down list in the upper right of the toolbar.

create the following in ...\data\...\models\:
body.jms - non-heads
head1.jms
head2.jms
head3.jms
export each with it's geometry and markers for that region (#head with each head.jms, the other markers with body.jms), and they each need to be exported with all nodes

LOD: Level Of Detail. As the object gets smaller (measured in pixels), the render model switches to simpler objects.

Skin Utilities can be used to copy skin weights from head1 to 2 & 3

Well I hate GBXmodel Export because they only import 2 shaders and it piss me off so much and whoever release the latest gbxmodel export forgot to export all shaders instead of 2 I think like the ghost version

it only does that when you have it attach regions, iirc.