PsychotropicDog wrote:
I am assuming to get a custom character to act like the character in game, it will be necessary to have 7 copies, each with corresponding adjustments as above.
To fully understand what each individual Body.solid addresses, it's necessary to look at the source code with that mental filter applied. I haven't done that yet. All I can say is that Body7.solid is for getting a mashed head, Bodylow.solid is for low LoD and that the rest only work nicely if differences between them are minute.
My guess is that the game cycles through Body.solid - Body6.solid.
Edge smoothing?
I think I first tried exporting the imported solid to DXF format from blender, then importing into Maya.
I noticed some edge smoothing which does not seem to be present in OBJ version.
I should investigate, but I suppose the question is, how much edge smoothing?
I don't have Maya, so I can't look into this. But maybe the Blender DXF exporter auto-applies edge smoothing for some reason? Might even be a smoothing of 0.0.
The solid importer doesn't do anything but import verts, build tri structures and set UV mapping.
I noticed a belt.solid as well.
The Belt.solid, its skeleton (Rabbitbelt), the Body meshes and the associated skeletons, are loaded into a player structure upon level start.
I'm not sure what Belt.solid and Rabbitbelt do because again, it would involve digging into Lugaru sourcecode, and I can't do that right now. But I've done a lot of experiments while simply ignoring Belt.solid, that worked out okay.
Maybe it determines the holstered positions of weapons? Can't say, really. You'd have to either experiment or ignore this solid right now.
Textures
Character textures seem to be 512x512x24 jpgs. I wonder if other formats can be used.
No. Maybe down the line though, when opensource Lugaru has progressed beyond structural improvements.
A guess about the shirts and pants .. png overlays that correspond to UV's on the model?
Correct.
How are the textures associated with the models; what to name them?
Shirts and pants are referenced in levels. What they're called depends on what that level says.
Shirts and pants can be set by the user in debug mode with the "clothes" command. See
http://wiki.wolfire.com/index.php/Conso ... Appearance
So you could make your own clothing set for your character, make maps and dress your character up so that he always has clothes of said set on.
If you're modding a character though and want to make it a really robust mod, you might want to mod all related clothes textures that shipped with Lugaru so that they match your character's appearance both in terms of style and UV mapping. The reason for this is that players will play old maps with your character, and these old maps contain references to old clothes.
Thanks for using this stuff. Be warned though: The skeleton import/export path is buggy (vertex groups aren't right). If you want to get a proper skeleton mapping, you can send me your model .blender file, preferably with all joint verts associated with individual vert groups, and I'll reorder the vert groups for you and will give you a working skeleton.
The bug's already fixed locally, but I'm in the process of getting my code to comply with the GPL, and this takes time, and I have no over-abundance of that, to say the least. But this shouldn't stop you from modding. So take advantage of this offer if you want to make custom skeletons for your custom .solids.
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