[Tutorial] Making a Weapon for Retail Blockland

[Spartan300]

Awesome tutorial, could you possibly post on how to make joints though?
It never works for me, never actually makes the joint.

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[Spartan300]

Oh also, Sorry for double post.
Is the bounding box or collision box or whatever automatically made for the models?

[Spartan300]

One more question (God dammit can you please put the edit button back in?)
Which axis would the purple line be?

[Masterlegodude]

To duplicate, just select a part, the whole model, or a group of the model (by double clicking a group in the Groups tab) and go to Edit and hit Duplicate Selection or w/e it is

[Spartan300]

Alright cool, just a few more question, and my vehicle will be ready 
I need a name of all the joints for the vehicles please, I know there is hub0, hub1, hub2 and hub3, but I don't know which wheel goes where.
Also, what's the place where a player is sitting called?
One last thing, which axis is the purple line?
(y,x,z?)

Thanks a whole lot.
:D

[Masterlegodude]

I'll take a wild guess since i dunno, the purple line is X

hub0, front left wheel, hub1, front right wheel, hub2, back left wheel, and hub3, back right wheel, and mount0 is the name of the joint where the driver will be, mount# (any number (going in numerical order) except 0 since that's the driver)  will be where a passenger will go

[Thirsty]

Hey, I just learne a whole lot from your post, it's very good in my opinion. (I think the pictures did the trick for me.)
My only problem was with the .cs file. I used the Weapon_Gun.cs script. I didn't realize for awhile that I had to change the pistol model to my file name.

[coldwizard]

I dont get how to do the purple line ? If it is easy dont be mean i am a newbie.

[SuPeR Swat]

can i have a link to where i can download the milkshape you use?

[Masterlegodude]

Search google for Milkshape 1.8.1a

The Wii can't copy and paste

[SuPeR Swat]

o lol

[SuPeR Swat]

i dont understand all four screens, can you explain them and can you give me something simple to make so i can get used to this stuff?

[SuPeR Swat]

can anyone else help because hes not answering me?

[Reactor Worker]

The 4 windows are different views of the same model.

Typically you have a front view (top left window), a right side view (right, top window) and a birds-eye view (bottom left view).

These are customisable in milkshape from pull down windows.

Why are they there?

Good question. When make a model, typically you have to use all or some of the viewports for selecting vertices (those dots) and for moving them.

I often find that when working on a complex model, it may be impossible to select a certain vertex from the top view...but the right side view makes it easy.

Also note that what viewport you use detirmines how you can move a vertex. So, if you use the birds-eye view, you won't be able to move the vertex along the z axis.

The last and most important viewport is the 3D one. This allows you to see the mesh (another word for 3D model) as it should appear in the game. I find switching this viewport to mesh mode makes selecting vertices easier. Flat shaded mode makes moving vertices easier to see and textured mode if good for texture allignment

[SuPeR Swat]

ok so what about the grid, like do i have to make the handle of the weapon a certain number of squares or something?