Blender 214 released with fixed .x exporter

[elander]

This is a just a quick note with some links.

The binary, the glsl demos and some documentation in this thread:

http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7943

Most documentation is now in the wiki so check this instead of the pdf manuals:

http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page

What is new:

http://www.blender.org/cms/Blender_2_41.731.0.html

Plenty of bug fixes for exporter. If you were having problems with .x and .obj the problems may have been fixed. Collada exporter and vrml97/x3d have also been updated.

[afecelis]

I already knew about the new release but I had no idea of the GE samples and the documentation.

Many thanks for those links! the game engine demos are amazing.

[vermeer]

am in contact with ben..it's fixed, yes. But not yet with constraints support(hey!he's working at it ). Just in case some of you try to add an ik solver , or copy rotation, or location, or whatever the constraint and try to export it. You already can do any animation with aramtures and weightsprovided you don't use constraints.

[vermeer]

I wondered the other day if that multiple UV support in blender game engine would mean multiple UV soon(in a near future?) also in blender in general, and not only game engine...

that way, would not be much later we could have a full lightmapping export...wether if using wrl, or x (if I remember well, both support multiple UV)

Anyway, the bake of lighting in blender seems yet passing trough vertex colors (huge subdivide step in the middle, no good) , so not much intersted myself...

My real hope in free lightmapping tools is Murphy, once again


The character animation in Blender 2.4x is already enough to do pro stuff, provided one good rig was done. I made one basic test to use knee controllers for ik legs, feet that would stay glued in ground, etc...and all was done faster than ever before...

[Electron]

can't animation with constraints be exported by taking action key frames at intervals and baking the action to IPO? Or am I missing something else. . .

[vermeer]

That i thought, Electron...I made so with previous versions: Blender 2.37, 2.35 ...But looks like new api wont allow it or something...I don't know as I am not a programmer...

So I even tried baking, but seems it needs that new code made by Ben for it to work...From then,it should be all wonderful. The power of B 2.41 is really big now, WIth IK solvers, knee controllers (track to constraints) etc...and all...well, very similar to how was before, but quite better.

[dhenton9000]

am in contact with ben..it's fixed, yes. But not yet with constraints support(hey!he's working at it ). Just in case some of you try to add an ik solver , or copy rotation, or location, or whatever the constraint and try to export it. You already can do any animation with aramtures and weightsprovided you don't use constraints.

do you mean the x exporter that ships with 2.41, I bet it works, but in my hands they don't show in the irrlicht viewer. Is there another version out there?

[vermeer]

yOu -allways- can go to ben's page and download from there and execute in text editor inside blender. That's how I usually do.

Just do this: try to add a 'track to' constraint to your rig to behave in certain way, add to another bone a copy rotation constraint, add ik solvers constraints. Do some keyframes. Export the whole thing. see it in some viewers supporting directx (deep exploration is great, though comercial). MVIEW (in my sig) from MS, is great. A bit demanding: it often does not like non standard x files. Resaving there as you know, will make it more able to load in irrlicht, try resaving there. But with constraints, to my knowledge, it wont work right. That's what he's working on.