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How To Export Blender Game Logic for Controlling Actor Actions?
Question:
How does one export Game Logic ("Sensors") that Unity references for controlling actions from Blender's "Action Editor" or "Dope Sheet"?
Problem Statement:
I have a Blender model that has ...
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How do I get a Rigged 3D Model made in blender to display and animate on the iPhone?
I have a rigged model in blender of a man walking, I would like to know how to get this to display and animate on the iPhone and if their is a good free game library out their that lets me do it (even ...
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apply non-hierarchial transforms to hierarchial skeleton?
I use Blender3D, but the answer might not API-exclusive.
I have some matrices I need to assign to PoseBones. The resulting pose looks fine when there is no bone hierarchy (parenting) and messed up ...
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How can I get my meshes to work with Bullet Physics?
The problem is that I'm trying to use my meshes with Bullet Physics for the collision part of my game.
When I attempted doing this method with my GLM(model loading library by nate robins) model, I ...
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How do I export my Blender model to OGRE XML format for jMonkeyEngine 3?
I'm an amateur software engineer with several simple 2D-game projects under my belt. I'v recently turned my attention towards creating a basic 3D game, nothing too fancy, just to get a grip on things.
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Models with more than one mesh in JMonkeyEngine
I’m a new jmonkey engine developer and I’m beginning to import models. I tried to import simple models and no problems appeared, but when I export some obj models having more than one mesh in the ...
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importing animations in Blender, weird rotations/locations
This is for the Blender 2.6 API.
There are two problems:
1. When I import a single animation frame from my animation file to Blender, all bones look fine.
But when I import multiple (all of the ...
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Blender - creating bones from transform matrices
Notice: this is for the Blender 2.5/2.6 API.
Back in the old days in the Blender 2.4 API, you could easily create a bone from a transform matrix in your 3d file as EditBones had an attribute named ...
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Detect collision in Blender
I am trying to write a Python function for Blender(2.66) game engine, that permits me to detect collision between two objects.
I tried to read the documentation, but it's very confusing, and I don't ...
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exporting bind and keyframe bone poses from blender to use in OpenGL
EDIT: I decided to reformulate the question in much simpler terms to see if someone can give me a hand with this.
Basically, I'm exporting meshes, skeletons and actions from blender into an engine ...
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Blender move single UV point
Texturing in Blender and when I am moving UVs around in the UV/Image Editor I'm finding that I can't move a single UV point without moving all other UVs that are connected to the vertex.
This seems ...
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Tools for Sprite generation? 3D Blender model for Sprites -generation?
My speculation is that sprites can be generated rather painlessly from good 3D Blender models either to 2D or 3D. I am skeptical to sprites generated other ways because I like the ability to do ...
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Trouble with UV Mapping Blender => Unity 3
For some reason I am getting nasty grey edges around the edges of rendered 3D models that are not present in Blender.
I seem to be able to solve the problem by reducing the size of the UV coordinates ...
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Blender: calculation of elevation and rotation angle from plane
I have a generic plane (any location, any rotation around every axis) with its normal axis passing by the center. Then I have a generic point and I need to find the elevation and the rotation angle ...
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Posible to export f-curves in blender?
I work with some friends on a rail shooter game in openGL. For creating our world we are using Blender. Since we want our Tank to follow a path I have started to work with creating bezier curves and ...
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Batch mesh simplification
I need a script for simplifying meshes, to run on a server in headless (no GUI) mode. Are there open source (or at least gratis) tools out there I could use for this? Or, how would I script Blender to ...
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Blender: How to merge multiple meshes of same object?
I have run into a bit of a problem creating my 3D model. I started with a single mesh and added additional meshes (all in edit mode) to create my geometric shape. They are all part of the same object, ...
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Blender models appear in UDK asset manager, but not in game
I am new to UDK and blender. I am using UDK3.
I have tried the following so far:
Making the mesh origin, (0,0,0)
Making the parent bone origin (0,0,0)
Parenting the root bone with the mesh
I have ...
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Blender 2.6: UV-Matching on Non-Image-Textures
Situation:
I want to model a piece of wood in Blender (2.63.0). In order to do this I use a set of Noise and Clouds textures on a brown material. But these textures are warped and shown in the wrong ...
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Need to produce an animated texture of Water where each image tiles in all directions
I need to produce a 2D 'animated' texture of "water" for a game in which each image tiles in 'all' directions, much like those produced by the Caustics Generator, but with the power and flexibility of ...
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Blender DirectX exporter to Panda3D
I have been experimenting with Panda3D lately. I have a character made in Blender with various bones and currently with one animation that I wish to export to a *.x format for Panda3D. My current ...
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How i can sign and/or group a specific set of vertices in a 3D file container like OBJ ? - in Blender
I would like to export a 3D model with each part having a name or a label if you will.
For example i would like to export a model of an human body and name each part in specifics vertex groups like: ...
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what space is this Matrix in?
In Blender 2.6 API, PoseBone is used for animating a bone. PoseBone.matrix is one way to do that. API says PoseBone.matrix is in "object space".
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Microsoft XNA code sample wont work with blender model
I downloaded this code sample and integrated it into my game
http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/mesh_instancing
It works with the model that they supplied, but throws and ...
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XNA HLSL: Skinned Model Deforming Wrong
I am creating a basic XNA recreation of Minecraft. My current problem is that my "Steve" model, which is skinned with an armature using vertex groups to deform, is showing up disfigured beyond all ...
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Any way to edit Warcraft MDX or MDL Animated models?
I have been searching for a while for a way to get an animated mdl or mdx model into any 3D animating software (such as Blender), but so far have not had any success.
I found a few methods of getting ...
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Tool to convert O3D mesh to a format that can be opened in Blender?
I have an O3D mesh and I need to open it in Blender - but there seems to be no importer for O3D files. Is there some tool that can convert the mesh to a format that Blender can import?
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Using extension methods through the TryInvokeMember override of a DynamicObject
I feel like I need to give a little background information on why I'm doing what I'm doing, because I want to open it to suggestions and criticism, and give hope to Blender-using XNA programmers that ...
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Is it possible to control bones/vertexes on Blender programaticaly to achieve a specific effect?
I'm trying to animate a character with a ponytail in a very specific way. I'd like to do it by controlling "pivot points" on the hair programatically. I've programmed a cloth simulator in JavaScript ...
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XNA skinned model animation snapping and sped up
I'm exporting .fbx files from Blender 2.6, and followed the skinned model sample to get them to work in game. They do render and animate, but wrongly; they're sped up, and animations seem to reset ...
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Problem with drawing mesh
So I made this simple model in blender. Its made up of one mesh, and one armature that contains three bones. This is the parent-child relationship that I made in blender:
For the sake of simplicity ...
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Draw mesh with multiple bones
So I currently have an object made up of only one mesh. And this object contains three bones. One for strecthing the mesh left, one for streching the mesh up, and a center bone, which moves the object ...
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exporting a maya model to work with Playstation mobile Studio?
Ive just started to program in Playstation Mobile Studio for the PS vita. The Models that are available to use in Ps Development have to .mdk models.
The studio comes with a a model converter that ...
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DirectX/OpenGL materials -> Blender materials?
I'm writing an importer for a format with standard DirectX materials.
The material values are:
diffuse - r,g,b,a (floats)
ambient - r,g,b,a (floats)
specular - r,g,b,a (floats)
emissive ...
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How to create rigged 3dModel in Blender and setRotation in irrlicht?
I have edited a rigged human model in blender (to change the axis of rotation of certain joints), to export it to Irrlicht and setRotation on the model's joints.
Irrlicht detects the joints in
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Making shaders work for both ATI and NVIDIA in Blender Game Engine
Unfortunately coding OpenGL shaders is more strict for ATI cards. I am trying to get this code from this thread http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?245954-preethams-sky-impementation-HDR to ...
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Blender poseBone matrix from animation matrix?
Given an animation matrix for a bone in armature-space, how to calculate the "matrix" of poseBone from it and assign it in Blender?
Basically by bones can have parents, but all animation matrices in ...
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Calculating the correct roll from a bone transform matrix
Read this forum topic for more info: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?260602-transform-matrix-to-bone-%28head-tail-roll%29-bug
I'm trying to get my Blender3d modeller importer to create ...
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How to break terrain (in blender) into Chunks for a game engine
I've created an island in blender. 2048x2048 blender units.
The engine developer wants me to split the terrain into 128x128 "chunks"
so that would be 16x16 "chunks" from a top down view.
The engine ...
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Where is the “Yafaray Export” in Blender 2.6?
I've downloaded the latest Blender+Yafaray package from here. And I cannot find the Yafaray Export option at where it used to be, the "Render" menu. Where can I find it?
