General Blender help thread

[Demian]

You must be on Mac because it works just fine for me. Try renaming the materials to something without a period. Might work. I don't know.

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[J MASTER]

You must be on Mac because it works just fine for me. Try renaming the materials to something without a period. Might work. I don't know.

I'm on a pc.

[J MASTER]

How can I select several verticies/faces from an object, and make them a seperate object?

[Demian]

How can I select several verticies/faces from an object, and make them a seperate object?

Q: How do I split meshes? Separate one part of a mesh to make it it's own mesh?
A: Select a part of your mesh (Vertices, faces or edges) and press P on you keyboard and select Selection.

[The Corporation]

In 2.50, how do I split and close panels like in 2.49?

[Demian]

In 2.50, how do I split and close panels like in 2.49?

Q: How to split and close panels in the interface?
A: There are a few white lines in a triangular shape in both top right and bottom left of every panel. Click and drag. That's all I can really say as I do not know how it exactly works myself.

[The Corporation]

How would I add transparent(scope or glass) and/or normal(Metal/camo) textures to a model?

[J MASTER]

Getting this error when I export:

Torque Exporter 0.97 Beta3
 Using blender, version 249
 Exporting...
   ****************************************************************************
   Warning: Multiple Blender mesh names in Detail1 all reduce to the same DTS
    Object name: "Cube"
     The exporter will use the original names for these meshes and any nodes
     generated from them.  This may result in duplicate or unneccesary nodes,
     extra animation tracks, and inefficent mesh packing in the exported dts
     file.
       Changed dts object and node name for Blender mesh "Cube.001"
         from "Cube" to "Cube.001".
       Changed dts object and node name for Blender mesh "Cube"
         from "Cube" to "Cube".
   ****************************************************************************

 Writing shape to  'C:\Users\Jarod Weisinger\Desktop\Games\Blender\.blender\Dragonmask.dts'.
 Processing...
 > Shape Details
    > Nodes
      ^^ Bone [Exp-Catch-Root] (parent -1)
      ^^ Bone [Shape] (parent -1)
       ^^ Bone [Detail32] (parent 1)
        ^^ Bone [Cube] (parent 2)
        ^^ Bone [Cube.001] (parent 2)
        ^^ Bone [mountPoint] (parent 2)
    > Objects
     'Cube' : Standard
     'Cube.001' : Standard
    > Materials
       Material.002
       Material.001
    > Detail Levels
       Detail-1 (size : 1)
       Smallest : Detail-1 (size : 1)
    > Internal Sequences
 Writing out DTS...
 Done.
 Finished.
 

[Demian]

How about renaming the mesh parts? Like "head" and "spikes"?

[J MASTER]

How about renaming the mesh parts? Like "head" and "spikes"?

Still crashing. But the warning is gone.

[Demian]

I really don't have the slightest clue. It could be anything really. Some tiny thing you're doing. The only way I might be able to help at his point is if you tape yourself opening blenderand the save, exporting and using it in Blockland an uploading the video somewhere. I really have no clue.

[J MASTER]

I really don't have the slightest clue. It could be anything really. Some tiny thing you're doing. The only way I might be able to help at his point is if you tape yourself opening blenderand the save, exporting and using it in Blockland an uploading the video somewhere. I really have no clue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elQS7XMXJ0&feature=youtube_gdata

[Demian]

Now why would you be moving the .dts to the shapes folder and using mission editor to spawn it?

[J MASTER]

Something I read in this forum subsection that would eliminate the possibility of a scripting error and focus on any .dts or modelling errors...
Also, it crashes before I spawn when I package it into a weapon.
Loading Add-On: Weapon_DragonMask (CRC:-1265672063)
Executing Add-Ons/Weapon_DragonMask/server.cs.
-boom-

[Demian]

Something I read in this forum subsection that would eliminate the possibility of a scripting error and focus on any .dts or modelling errors...
Also, it crashes before I spawn when I package it into a weapon.
Loading Add-On: Weapon_DragonMask (CRC:-1265672063)
Executing Add-Ons/Weapon_DragonMask/server.cs.
-boom-

Ugh. Just copypasta the sword script, do some remnaming and done. That's what I use.