lpgunit Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 I've been trying to import DFFs from the Re: Liberty City Stories mod as per a request from a dude over at discord, but while the bones and other stuff are (nominally) imported, I end up with this error: Here are the links to the DFF files in question: https://www23.zippyshare.com/v/zZ6UJ50Y/file.html https://www23.zippyshare.com/v/OsI2VSYI/file.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meng Fan Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) e Edited August 30, 2020 by Meng Fan Typo komet163 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKDrub Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Pls Help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 4 hours ago, SKDrub said: Pls Help you breach the size of bondary , the limit bondary is that sphere , make sure your object size is scaled down just fit inside that bondary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKDrub Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 28 minutes ago, RestractPrime said: you breach the size of bondary , the limit bondary is that sphere , make sure your object size is scaled down just fit inside that bondary. I used your method but I keep passing them on :(, What I do is put them smaller in 3ds max or directly from sketchup? Pd: your method worked... the cabbage doesn't bug but when I play I transfer them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold_fish Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, SKDrub said: Pls Help use reset XForm in 3ds max before export I also recommend exporting the collision via cst format (you will find this option in the GTA tools menu) and importing it into the COL Editor Edited August 29, 2020 by gold_fish deltaCJ and Dodow 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKDrub Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 2 hours ago, gold_fish said: use reset XForm in 3ds max before export I also recommend exporting the collision via cst format (you will find this option in the GTA tools menu) and importing it into the COL Editor Thanks So Much!!!!! 17 hours ago, RestractPrime said: you breach the size of bondary , the limit bondary is that sphere , make sure your object size is scaled down just fit inside that bondary. And Thanks So Much x2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meng Fan Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 2 hours ago, gold_fish said: use reset XForm in 3ds max before export I also recommend exporting the collision via cst format (you will find this option in the GTA tools menu) and importing it into the COL Editor How to fix the BUG of GTA3 ghost town building explosion model？ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKDrub Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Someone knows how I can create a LOD.. and by the way if someone knows how to put the window lights on my 3d model Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_White97 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) When pressing "show texture" it is not shown, I already added the path where the others are. the ones you see add them manually... Spoiler Also when I export a car with this tool it is exported but without any brightness Edited September 16, 2020 by Mr_White97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tut. Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 7 hours ago, Mr_White97 said: When pressing "show texture" it is not shown, I already added the path where the others are. the ones you see add them manually... Hide contents Also when I export a car with this tool it is exported but without any brightness I think that's a shading issue. On the upper left of your viewport where it says "Default shading" please set it to "Facet" or "Flat shading" and see if you get expected results. The car brightness issue could be a material setting. Please show us your vehicle surface material and your DFF export settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeneric Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) Reporting a possible bug: I think UV Animation is broken because I wasn't able to get it working in game (crashes everytime) but I was able to with the original Kam's script. Tried on both 3DS Max 2020 and 2021. Edited September 18, 2020 by Zeneric deltaCJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltaCJ Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 9 hours ago, Zeneric said: Reporting a possible bug: I think UV Animation is broken because I wasn't able to get it working in game (crashes everytime) but I was able to with the original Kam's script. Tried on both 3DS Max 2020 and 2021. That's crazy, I just saw your tutorial in my recommended Zeneric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatefilter5 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) i tired 3dmax 2021 but export to dff crashes my game, is anything for 3dmax 2021 cuz my 2011 version was expired and i cant nolong use it so , i try finding 2012 or 2016 version i end up getting 2021. when can u do with 2021 if anyone haves? I look at videos ofr 3dmax 2021 with kam's script there's none of them. Edited September 20, 2020 by skatefilter5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einheit-101 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Mesh fix doesnt work for skins it seems. We get this nice result: This bug is annoying as f*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltaCJ Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 13 minutes ago, Einheit-101 said: Mesh fix doesnt work for skins it seems. We get this nice result: *pic* This bug is annoying as f*** Hm, it's funny because I encountered that on newer versions of max but when I switched to Max 9 I haven't had a single problem with his updated scripts (the newer version, that was updated recently on Google Drive.) Try: Resetting XForm on the skin before export. Vertex Welding at 0.001 Export without UV Fix and Mesh Fix checked (I've noticed that using these options actually cause corruption if there was no corruption in the first place.) Try optimizing your mesh (ProOptimize works amazingly, just play with settings.) These solutions helped me with many errors I've encountered through modding. If none of these worked, you can always restart max, create a new project (because for some reasons when projects get corrupted, exports seem to corrupt as well.) and work from a new model. Let me know! gold_fish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einheit-101 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 In this case the problem was caused by welding the UVs... It gets quickly solved by exporting the character with RWIO (...) and re-importing the mesh. Rwio does not have such issue. It is very unfortunate that we cant weld UVs and we cant fix such a ruined mesh without using rwio. Not even exporting as obj or fbx solves it, only rwio can. Also, btw, the updated KAMS Scripts ruin rigging, it is not possible to export a working character in either Max 2010 or Max 2017 for me. I uninstalled the new KAMS and installed the 2009 original on my Max 2010 and suddenly i can export working characters again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltaCJ Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Einheit-101 said: In this case the problem was caused by welding the UVs... It gets quickly solved by exporting the character with RWIO (...) and re-importing the mesh. Rwio does not have such issue. It is very unfortunate that we cant weld UVs and we cant fix such a ruined mesh without using rwio. Not even exporting as obj or fbx solves it, only rwio can. Also, btw, the updated KAMS Scripts ruin rigging, it is not possible to export a working character in either Max 2010 or Max 2017 for me. I uninstalled the new KAMS and installed the 2009 original on my Max 2010 and suddenly i can export working characters again. That's actually very unfortunate, just tried your theory of welding UVs and i was able to export a player model no problem. I went ahead and even tried making a new ped to see what could be the problem with rigging, and I once again encountered no problem... This seems very weird and to me I feel like this may just be a problem with the certain scripts you have. I remember having countless problems with an old version of these scripts but this new version Gold_Fish and Shagg_E have informed me about, has given me not one single problem (Unless I do something incorrect leading to errors.) If you don't mind, could you give me a rundown of what EXACTLY you do before making/rigging/exporting any mesh, maybe it is just a user caused problem that leads to these errors. Merging UVs may be the cause of your problem for that exact mesh, but I still don't see how UVs and the mesh get jumbled in during export. I just welded the UVs for my UZI, and it came out great! Try smaller poly objects, maybe a very poor modelled house, or a simple object like a teapot, and see how they export after merging UVs. (This was also with UV Fix and Mesh Fix UNCHECKED.) EDIT: Also here's the link to the v0.37 KAM'S Gold_Fish Scripts Edited September 28, 2020 by deltaCJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einheit-101 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 It doesnt always happen when welding UVs, some models export just fine. But this one here certainly failed. The steps i did are simple, imported Torino.dff (Original skin), welded my droid skin UVs, merged my droid with Torino, export the file, get bug. Maybe its the orientation of the Vertices, but its not the count. I can export some larger models just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltaCJ Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Einheit-101 said: It doesnt always happen when welding UVs, some models export just fine. But this one here certainly failed. The steps i did are simple, imported Torino.dff (Original skin), welded my droid skin UVs, merged my droid with Torino, export the file, get bug. Maybe its the orientation of the Vertices, but its not the count. I can export some larger models just fine. Try Welding the UVs after rigging, see if that works? It most likely might be your rigging process. Also if you're rigging you should click Bone/Skin Export (Which Im guessing you already know, but I'm making sure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold_fish Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Einheit-101 said: ... welding UVs, .... show me pls how you weld uv why do you weld texture coordinates at all? Select your skin in the DFF IO script window, press the chanell info button, then a small window will open and then press update, show me the information about the model channels, put a screen of this window also show me pls the log after exporting the crooked skin (button f11) Edited September 29, 2020 by gold_fish deltaCJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeneric Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, gold_fish said: show me pls how you weld uv How do you weld uv? I'm probably doing it wrong too. Edited September 29, 2020 by Zeneric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold_fish Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 12 hours ago, Zeneric said: How do you weld uv? I'm probably doing it wrong too. UV is a scan of textures and it has its own vertices, UV does not need to weld, you only need to make a UV scan for your model, you can only weld the vertices of the model if you need it. Zeneric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeneric Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 8 hours ago, gold_fish said: UV is a scan of textures and it has its own vertices, UV does not need to weld, you only need to make a UV scan for your model, you can only weld the vertices of the model if you need it. A lot of people suggested to weld UVs' vertices to reduce dff size. I saw little to no difference (dff size wise), and it sometimes messes up uv maps, so I thought I did something wrong. Good to know. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold_fish Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Zeneric said: A lot of people suggested to weld UVs' vertices to reduce dff size. I saw little to no difference (dff size wise), and it sometimes messes up uv maps, so I thought I did something wrong. Good to know. Thanks. That's right, the size of the dff file is affected by the number of model vertices, triangles, UVs, prelights and materials. On skins and cars, I would not recommend weld UV vertices at all. it greatly affects the structure of the model when exported due to which problems with geometry occur after export, unfortunately this script is not yet able to fully process all the nuances of the model's geometry and at some stages it can spoil the model. Just try to keep the model as simple as possible, use as few materials as possible, keep the mesh of the model even and correct, etc... I also recommend to be very careful when using the break tool for vertexes, since after disconnecting the vertices, the UVs of the texture are also disconnected. And glueing it back can be problematic, I just recommend trying to perform fewer operations with the UVs and there will be fewer problems during export. in the future I will add additional tools for fast compression of UVs and some more minor script updates, but all of them will not give 100% result for any model, you still have to work with each model individually and for each model its own settings and export methods sorry for my English Edited September 30, 2020 by gold_fish deltaCJ, Zeneric and Tut. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoockyGTA Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) Hello, nice to meet you, I'm new and I would like to know a couple of things first if the scripts work with the 2010 version of the program? Is it the one that I use since I don't have a good team to install 3ds max 2020 and the second one is used to import animations? I mean that the gta use IFP format files, well, in gta 3, vice city, san andreas, and liberty city stories that's right, but in vice city it's another .ANIM format and I would like to work with cinematic animations or cutscenes of said game and I do not know if it is possible that is all at the moment thank you very much for your attention and I will be waiting for an answer Error Vice City Stories is the .ANIM format in the animations files I was wrong in my other comment Edited October 3, 2020 by RedDagger removed quote of OP and formatting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_act Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 (edited) how to fix it? Edited October 9, 2020 by F_act Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tut. Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 I'll go out on a limb and say it's not installed correctly. If you're able to access the script through Scripting menu -> Run Script, you'll just want to shut down Max and make sure the files are installed in the correct directories, then boot up again. Dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_act Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 @Tut98 i already install them following in readme.txt. early, thats script worked fine. now, i open the 3ds max i getting thats error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold_fish Posted October 9, 2020 Author Share Posted October 9, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, F_act said: how to fix it? I have not yet figured out the reason, this error occurs in new versions of 3d max, I would recommend that you use the 2020 version of max. To avoid getting this error every time, you can delete this file in the scripts / startup folder This error is related to the creation of the GTA Tools menu in the top panel of max, because of this error it will not appear on you It is also recommended to run 3d max on behalf of the administrator Edited October 9, 2020 by gold_fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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