Shorah guys,
I need the Ae'gura, the Great Zero and the Baron city model, because I want to make the district/residential areas and adding the Great Zero and the Baron City office in to the city. But just for testing.
Is it possible?
And I need the age creation tools.
Need the Ae'gura model
Re: Need the Ae'gura model
Hello TGMChrist,
Yes, some of it is possible, however it's far from easy. You can't just "open, modify and save" an Age because they are already pre-compiled. Modifying an Age is a lot harder than creating a new one from scratch, so I'd advise training on creating a new Age first.
The reason it's so complicated is that you have to import the Ages into Blender first. The importers ignore a lot of data when importing Ages, which means you can't export the Age again, since it would break all animations and clickables, as well as make the Age extremely ugly. Because of this, you have to use annoying workarounds like exporting only the objects you edited, then load them after the original Age was loaded. Merging two or more existing Ages is even more annoying.
Usually the best way is to do like Cyan did with the Great Zero: create a new Age that looks a lot like D'ni, and create your new area there. This is what is done in lots of Fan-Ages that are supposedly in D'ni, like the Messenger's pub and Fehnir's House.
Either way, you'll need Blender to create the locations, and Korman to export the content you created.
If you really want to have a look at Cyan's Ages, you can use the PyPRP importer (for Blender 2.49) or my own importer (for more recent versions of Blender) to import the Ages (obviously I'll recommend my own importer as it's more recent and runs on a newer Blender). Again, these importers only import meshes and some textures, but break everything else, so don't expect to be able to re-export those areas.
Yes, some of it is possible, however it's far from easy. You can't just "open, modify and save" an Age because they are already pre-compiled. Modifying an Age is a lot harder than creating a new one from scratch, so I'd advise training on creating a new Age first.
The reason it's so complicated is that you have to import the Ages into Blender first. The importers ignore a lot of data when importing Ages, which means you can't export the Age again, since it would break all animations and clickables, as well as make the Age extremely ugly. Because of this, you have to use annoying workarounds like exporting only the objects you edited, then load them after the original Age was loaded. Merging two or more existing Ages is even more annoying.
Usually the best way is to do like Cyan did with the Great Zero: create a new Age that looks a lot like D'ni, and create your new area there. This is what is done in lots of Fan-Ages that are supposedly in D'ni, like the Messenger's pub and Fehnir's House.
Either way, you'll need Blender to create the locations, and Korman to export the content you created.
If you really want to have a look at Cyan's Ages, you can use the PyPRP importer (for Blender 2.49) or my own importer (for more recent versions of Blender) to import the Ages (obviously I'll recommend my own importer as it's more recent and runs on a newer Blender). Again, these importers only import meshes and some textures, but break everything else, so don't expect to be able to re-export those areas.
Re: Need the Ae'gura model
Put the folder zero_length_zenith in <Blender's install path>/2.XX/scripts/addons. Then activate it in Blender's addons window.
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Re: Need the Ae'gura model
A thanks and how to import the Uru ages into Blender without error?
Re: Need the Ae'gura model
If you're seeing an error about it being unable to create a file, you may need to create the TMP_Textures folder inside the one you're importing from to work around a bug.
Which reminds me, I should look into that and submit a fix. :p
Which reminds me, I should look into that and submit a fix. :p
Re: Need the Ae'gura model
Oh right, my bad. I fixed it a while ago, but the version available for download is a bit older and still has the bug. You can create the TMP_Textures folder like Deledrius said, this should work around the issue.
At some point I'll probably make a topic dedicated to this importer, with a more recent version of the script and instructions on how to use it.
(Speaking of which, the version of the importer currently on my PC can import some animations, along with armatures and bone weighting - pretty cool
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At some point I'll probably make a topic dedicated to this importer, with a more recent version of the script and instructions on how to use it.
(Speaking of which, the version of the importer currently on my PC can import some animations, along with armatures and bone weighting - pretty cool
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Good to know. I will refrain from sending you a patch. :pSirius wrote:Oh right, my bad. I fixed it a while ago, but the version available for download is a bit older and still has the bug.
That's awesome! Why not host it on GitHub?Sirius wrote:At some point I'll probably make a topic dedicated to this importer, with a more recent version of the script and instructions on how to use it.
(Speaking of which, the version of the importer currently on my PC can import some animations, along with armatures and bone weighting - pretty cool
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Re: Need the Ae'gura model
Put the TMP_Textures folder inside the dat folder from which you're importing .age files.TGMChrist wrote:Where I put the TMP_Textures?