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  1. haha, Yup I knew the stuff about the materials, and tried everything you had troubleshooted with me before, but nothing worked, The plugin was the issue, For some odd rason I never thought it applied to 2013 silly me. Thank you so much
  2. Hello there, It has been some time since I posted on here, but I have been doing some searches around to try and find a solution to this problem and I am yet to find one... I have recently swapped my SL mesh building over to 3DS Max Design 2013 as this is what I am most comfortable with when doing architecural renders for clients. However, I have hit an issue with the workflow and I cant for the life of me work it out. Essentially I can assign texture id's and put the corresponding multi-sub material on the item ready for export. However when I import the mesh into secondlife, it withholds either none of the faces, or completely borks entirely, and gives me face id numbers that are not selectable. I was wondering if someone may well have come across this issue before and may be able to shine some light on it for me. With regards Bentley
  3. Cool thanks again, Rightio well this skeleton is the original skeleton but yet it is imported from blender, I used my initiative before hand and infact alinged my bones to them, However I did not mimic their rotations, so maybe I should try that as that could be casuing the issues couldn't it? Is it possible to use the align tool on these bones and tick the align to rotation boxes to? so it copies those over? Or will I need to input the rotations manually? or it seems either the lengths are wrong which is odd considering its actually exactly the same in appearence to the one in blender, or I am infact Just needing to rescale it? I will try them all and see what comes of it, if not I suppose I will have to rig it in blender which I am not looking forward to, mainly becuase its a horrible UI and apain in the butt to use lol Regards, Bentley
  4. Thankyou once again for the comprehensive low down on how to make it all work, I created a successful rig that works in human form with the rotations, Then as a quadro ped it did not work so instead I changed their rotations to zero, Perfecto, it works the correct way up, but now I am getting the following issue and Im not sure how to go about fixing it, Firstly My mesh was very large and mashed up, So I did a second upload with joints incluided to see exactly what was going on, pictures are below: And this is roughly the size it should be to fit the avatar: I am not sure if its simply a case of moving around the points, or if Im doing something wrong, I also tried scaling both the bones and the rug in 3ds max to see if that would remedy the issue but it does not Regards and thanks again for all the help Bentley (Please also bare in mind that I let the enevelopes do the rigging for me hence the terrible stretching in the correctly sized version, I wanted to see if it was going to work before going full on with rigging and then it not work like above.)
  5. However I do have another question, When creating my own skelton with the dummy boxes in the way in which you described, How exactly would I create the rig shown below? It needs to be exact as its for a third party accessorie for an avatar. I imported the rig below from the blender file they gave me to use, however its still messing up so I can only guess its the transition of the bones thats reeking havok on the structure. Would I have to change the box shapes and then attach them? Regards Bentley P.S. I also have a blender image with the same rig and bone names should you need to see this for reference.
  6. Sorry Ignore that last message, a couple of vertexs were not weighted
  7. Hello again Kitsune, I Followed your instructions on the wiki to the letter, yet I am still getting a DAE passing error I know this crops up if there is missing bones so I can only presume its the cause as it did not do it with my passed 'failed' tests. Best regards Bentley
  8. Hello there Rose, A friend of mine has been using sculptris to create a horse avatar and has succedded in doing her texture maps using the suggested blender method. The UV maps that are autogenerated by any program that uilises a clay method are generally very poor and it is a wise choice to take them into an external program and unwrap them properly with a pelt map. I personally made an avatar for my fiancee using sculptris and ended up unwrapping it in Hedus UV Layout (UV specific program) As has been suggested, the more you reduce your tri count the better and easier this task will be. Sculptris although marvelously brillliant is paticularly finnacky and can cause some really annoying edge loops becuase of the way it is tesselated. However if you can suceed to get around this like my friend has you will have a lovely smooth model to work with when rigging
  9. Hi again Kitsune "Ok, now you should have all bones in the skin modifier. Now set the max bones influence to 26 or higher. Select one vertex that is weighted to a single bone (a vertex with 1.0 of weight, this will make easier later to revert to its original weight). For example, lets say that we choose one vertex from the head that have 1.0 weight to the mskull bone. Now select a different bone, and rig that vertex to that new bone. For example, start weighting it to the right eye, then select the left eye and weight to it too, then to neck, torso, etc..." I am actually new to rigging in 3ds max as my area of expertise is more within hard objects. How might I actualy go about this process, How do I select the vertice and weight it to the different points? Thankyou again in advance Regards Bentley
  10. WOW, I emailed you around an hour ago and you replied so quickly with such a comprehensive guide to doing things in max and with bones, Thankyou ever so much. I will follow your steps carefully and recreate thebones of the quadroped using your method, If I have any fuirther questions I will ask. Thank you so much once again. Best regards Bentley
  11. I will say however, Thankyou ever so much for showing me some tips and trying to help me through it, I will continue to play with this until someone who is more experienced in this field can pick this up
  12. Damn I am yet to find a decent tutorial on how to edit bones like the ones that the SLAV option gives me, plenty on CAT, but no other methods that I have found
  13. This is a skeleton I imported from blender, it works perfectly in control terms so its all good to go in that sense, however when I reset the xforms on the pelvis (the controlling bone) it flips on its side, Should I rig it on its side or should I flip[ it back up so its standing straight? Regards and thanks for all the help so far Bentley
  14. Coolio, I have reset the xforms on the mesh and the bones, interestingly the bones grew quite a bit bigger and flipped on their side, So if this is the case, Should I flip them so they are standing back up again? or does that defeat the object of resetting the xforms? Otherwise ill have to rig it on its side lol
  15. I thought I would also add this to show what im getting and what I should be getting, In the hope it someone can inform me whats wrong :
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