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| Author | Topic: How to import a model. (15 messages, Page 1 of 1) | ||||
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 flyinhawaiianryan Joined: Feb 10, 2009 |
Posted: Sep 27, 2009 10:53 PM
Msg. 1 of 15
I want to import the base model from the level infinity into 3ds max, but i don't know how to do it. Any advice?
Edited by flyinhawaiianryan on Sep 27, 2009 at 10:53 PM Edited by flyinhawaiianryan on Sep 27, 2009 at 10:54 PM |
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Dennis  Joined: Jan 27, 2005 
"We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan |
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 10:44 AM
Msg. 2 of 15
Halo CE BSP Tag Converter V2.5
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2029 |
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flyinhawaiianryan Joined: Feb 10, 2009 |
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 05:52 PM
Msg. 3 of 15
Thank you for replying! I have never used this program before and i read the instructions. Could you explain to me how to use this to obtain the base model from the level infinity?
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Maniac1000 -Helpful Poster- Joined: Feb 24, 2007 
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Posted: Sep 29, 2009 06:06 PM
Msg. 4 of 15
The bsp converter will give you a bunch of flipped faces, missing faces , no sky geometry ,scaling troubles and more.
Send Haloguru a polite pm and he may give you a fixed Infinity model. |
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flyinhawaiianryan Joined: Feb 10, 2009 |
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 06:12 PM
Msg. 5 of 15
I can't seem to find this member when i searched for him.
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chrisk123999 Joined: Aug 10, 2008 
=CE= Chris [Captain] [=] |
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 06:56 PM
Msg. 6 of 15
Quote: --- Original message by: Maniac1000 The bsp converter will give you a bunch of flipped faces, missing faces , no sky geometry ,scaling troubles and more. Send Haloguru a polite pm and he may give you a fixed Infinity model. I've imported all the stock levels and never have gotten flipped, missing faces, or scaling problems. It won't give you a skybox, but if your going to be importing it just to modify the BSP, then it should be pretty simple for you to make your own. It works perfectly fine for getting the bases out of. The only real problem is double sided faces. |
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Maniac1000 -Helpful Poster- Joined: Feb 24, 2007
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Posted: Sep 29, 2009 07:54 PM
Msg. 7 of 15
Yea ive always had terrible problems with that.
Upload them to halomaps? |
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flyinhawaiianryan Joined: Feb 10, 2009 |
Posted: Sep 29, 2009 11:26 PM
Msg. 8 of 15
Only 1 problem the model you gave me had like 2480 open faces. How do i deal with that?
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chrisk123999 Joined: Aug 10, 2008
=CE= Chris [Captain] [=] |
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 07:15 PM
Msg. 9 of 15
By welding all the verts and re smoothing it. Technically it should get though tool fine.
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flyinhawaiianryan Joined: Feb 10, 2009 |
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 10:03 PM
Msg. 10 of 15
what do you mean by "Technically it should get through tool fine"? Are you saying that i shouldn't have to edit the model so it won't give me any errors when ran in tool?
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chrisk123999 Joined: Aug 10, 2008
=CE= Chris [Captain] [=] |
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 10:20 PM
Msg. 11 of 15
Yes, you can have open edges as long as the verts are in the same exact spot. So the imported base should work w/o having to weld anything.
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chrisk123999 Joined: Aug 10, 2008
=CE= Chris [Captain] [=] |
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 10:50 PM
Msg. 12 of 15
When you import it, it is all a smoothing group of 1 and it just has detached faces to make corners. You can weld and re smooth it all, or you can keep it as is.
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flyinhawaiianryan Joined: Feb 10, 2009 |
Posted: Oct 1, 2009 12:34 AM
Msg. 13 of 15
can anyone explain to me how to use the "Halo CE BSP Tag Converter V2.5"?
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chrisk123999 Joined: Aug 10, 2008
=CE= Chris [Captain] [=] |
Posted: Oct 1, 2009 04:52 PM
Msg. 14 of 15
Normally it's fine. I don't check that and the model comes out just fine. I think that one is really only useful on Gmax since it gets imported weird.
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chrisk123999 Joined: Aug 10, 2008
=CE= Chris [Captain] [=] |
Posted: Oct 1, 2009 09:11 PM
Msg. 15 of 15
Like I said, I never use that button. Although when I did use Gmax the import always messed up the materials, and that's the only time I would check that, so it would be easy to fix it.
Edited by chrisk123999 on Oct 1, 2009 at 09:11 PM |
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