* LeeE -- Saturday 01 March 2008: > The first problem is that when I import a .obj format model all of > the sub-object ordering and grouping is lost.
Probably just a missing feature in the .obj importer. I don't think you can do much about it, other than fixing the importer. > Any links to a tutorial or reference that shows how to import > objects and subsequently re-order them would be useful. Just select all objects that shall become children, and finally the one that should become parent, then Object->Parent->Make parent. There are groups, too, but I think they aren't supported by the ac3d exporter. > The next problem I had was actually unwrapping some of the meshs - > sometimes the unwrap seemed ok, except it might be at an arbitrary > angle Then you unwrapped u->From Window. That's exactly what you should get then. :-) > i.e. not aligned horizontally or vertically, but for some > objects the unwrap is badly distorted i.e. when unwrapping an upper > wing surface object the wing tips were about twice the width of the > root! Then you need to make seams: select some edges and SPACE->Edit-> ->Edges->Mark seam. > On another sub-object, the unwrap actually overlapped two > widely unconnected parts of the mesh Using the "Unwrap (smart projections)" may help (formerly known as archimap). For that you'll probably need a newer version, though. > If anyone has any tutorials or references that address these > problems I'd really appreciate it. google :-) Or come to IRC for live-help. Though I can't say much about 2.42, as I'm using 2.46pre. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
