Importing Meshes with textures intact?

if you have 3ds max and can view them fine in that exporting them as a obj and creating MTL files should be fine

thats what i do.

when you load the OBJ it will auto load the images from the mtl file - assuming the path is correct. open the MTL files in a text editor will have a ka or a kd line and a image file.

if you want send the obj the mtl and the texture in a zip and ill look at it for you.

I have downloaded some free 3d objects to test with, and I can't seem to get the textures loaded in. The mtl file is there with the same name as the obj file in the same directory. However the mtl file is referencing dds files where the textures are. Is it Firefly that can't load the images from the dds files?

the static mesh open dialog; supported models, doesn't include b3d, nor x (which both import OK with their textures intact) - switching it to All Files, i was doing it. perhaps add them to supported.

hmm b3d and x normally contain animations which is why they are in the animated options - but point taken i will add them in for you.

i'll add DDS in a future patch.

great. i have a ton of stuff from my 3D days in blitz3D & DBpro - it all works.

send me one of the .x and its textures plz ?

a lot of .x came with .dds - which i use DDS converter ( Please login to see this link. ) to change them. loading the texture from the material cache will work fine on the loaded .x model.

You might want to add Blender meshes to the list of meshes importable as static meshes as well. I use Blender to make my levels.

blender can export to OBJ and .x

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blender can export to OBJ and .x

True. But .x and .OBJ doesn't contain the programmed movements done in Blender Game. I would rather design the full level in Blender, import it straight as it is to Firefly, and animate the object with the built in code blocks from Blender Game.

will look into whether fusion can convert the blender game code into fusion code but will be a lot of development for a rather obscure feature.