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Help adding in my .gmax
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:40 pm
by Hadokendude
Ok, I decided to make my assault rifle shoot out orange bullets. I made my model in gmax (which I barely know how to use, by the way) and I was wondering: How do I take my .gmax, and get it to be shot out of the assault rifle? (I know I might probably have to convert it, but I don't know what into)
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:18 am
by Reaper Man
...lol first u have to compile it. use chimp, export a .jms then compile with tool etc
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:44 am
by Hadokendude
Using Chimp, I tried to export it as a .jms, but it says that ""frame" object was not found". All I made for my object was a cylinder connected to a semicircle (kinda like a bullet), converted them to editable meshes, attatched and welded them together. Is there anything else I need?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:33 am
by rossmum
If you want an actual bullet, then fair enough, but if it's just an orange contrail you want, you can change that in the AR's contrail tag in Guerilla... Much easier, quicker, and you wouldn't see the bullet anyway unless you slow it down a LOT.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:46 pm
by Hadokendude
Yes I want an actual bullet, and I will slow it down. I need help solving my problem of the missing frame.
""frame" object was not found"
Any ideas?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:23 pm
by BEEF!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:22 pm
by Hadokendude
Thanks. The next problem I had was that there was no geometry linked to the frame. So I just made a plane, and linked it. This is what I got: "Chimp Error: Unable to find any used materials. Ensure your objects have materials properly assigned to them." What does this mean?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:37 pm
by BEEF!!!
Link the frame to the bullet.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:22 pm
by Classic
BEEF!!! wrote:Link the frame to the bullet.
No!
Link the bulled to the frame!
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:05 pm
by rossmum
Well that post was utterly pointless.
As for the bullet... you need to apply a material. Go to the material editor (red sphere thingy on toolbar) and create new, colour it orange or whatever, then apply it to the bullet.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:58 am
by Hadokendude
Ok, I have the bullet, and the plane linked to the frame, and I have applied the material I made to both plane and bullet. Next, I went to export it, and when I saved it I got this message: "-- Runtime error: Feature not available: "createFile" ". What does this mean? Is there something wrong with my Chimp. (as a side note, I tried exporting it as a .jms)
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:13 am
by Classic
rossmum wrote:Well that post was utterly pointless.
As for the bullet... you need to apply a material. Go to the material editor (red sphere thingy on toolbar) and create new, colour it orange or whatever, then apply it to the bullet.
Rossmum could you be quiet about my posts? If you link the frame to the bullet it wolnt export corectly.However, if you link the bullet to the frame then your ready to go!
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:46 am
by Hadokendude
Ok.... I unlinked the bullet and frame, then linked the bullet to the frame, and I still get that runtime error. Any ideas?
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:13 am
by Hadokendude
Ok, I was able to fix my error. I was exporting wrong. Now I have my bullet.jms. Where do I go from here (to get it to shoot out of the assault rifle)?
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:52 am
by gh0570fchurch
wouldnt this be a lot easier if you just skinned the projectile so that it is orange?
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:15 am
by Hadokendude
I don't think the assault rifle has a projectile. That's why I'm trying to make one. Plus it's good to learn it anyways.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:25 am
by gh0570fchurch
well, it doesnt literally have a projectile, but it has a contrail bitmap, which can easily be reskinned to look orange
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:36 am
by Hadokendude
That's not actually what I'm looking for. I was asking about how to do this in my other post (
http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39307) but no one actually answered my question(s).
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:39 am
by gh0570fchurch
ppl did answer your question
gh0570fchurch wrote:a cheeto-shooting assault rifle... interesting... you could swap it with the rocket, then remodel and reskin the rocket to look like a cheeto...
if you want it to be slower, you can just change the .proj speed.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:42 pm
by Hadokendude
I'll try that. I thought they were originally talking about my first question.
Where can I find the model for the rocket launcher projectile?