Weapon-holding Hand animations...

[Dario D.]

Is it possible to get the HEV Suit hand that holds weapons in 1st person into 3dsMax so that I can change/add some animations or change it's shape?

And of source the CSS hand? I want to steal some weapons over from CSS into HL2DM hand format (or perhaps vice versa) to combine some of them for use in the other game type.

Is this possible?
Or maybe even with XSI?

http://img59.exs.cx/img59/4726/de_dust0007.jpg
CSS hands

http://www.halflife2.no/grafikk/screenshots/stor/div3.jpg
HL2 hand

 

[Dario D.]

Any takers?

I really need to know this one...

 

[Dan]

It can't be done, impossible!

 

[Dario D.]

How so?

The files can't be loaded or exported in any editors/model viewers?

 

[Dan]

sorry, I was just joking

 

[Dario D.]

heh, okay :smoking:

So, any takers? I thought multitudes of people would know this one.

 

[Lt.Hinkle]

well first get a model decompiler ( there are a few out there ). then decompile the model so you have the .smd, then get a vtf2tga convertor to change the .vtf texture file into a .tga

if all thats done , you can import it into 3dsmax ( dont ask me how , i use maya ... look for a smd importer ). Now do your editing , and then export to .smd and try to get it in the game.

( this is how it works , i dont know the details ... i use Maya and im still trying to figure it out myself )

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Yeah, a model decompiler, and anything that can load .smds are needed. Milkshape can convert smds into just about anything.

http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/cftools.htm

There's a decompiler in there.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Dario D.]

Thanks.

And please let me know if you succeed in getting a weapon into your graphics program, animations and all.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

I've already succeeded, many times. Just press 'import smd' in Milkshape, and edit it/export it to whatever file type you want for opening it in.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Dario D.]

I tried Import SMD in Milkshape, but I can't find any .smd files.

As a trial, I opened models.gcf and extracted all the Shotgun files I could find, but they are all .v__ files (.vxx) or .mdl and milkshape doesn't recognize them.

I tried "Import Serious Sam .mdl" but it didn't work. I selected the model, imported, but couldn't find the mesh in the scene.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Gotta decompile it first.

http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/mdldecompiler.php
It'll produce a few hundred SMDs for you out of the mdl.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Dario D.]

Ah ok, thanks.

Hey, they also have a 3dsMax SMD Importer/Exporter - w00t!

 

[Inflame007]

for the 3dmax importer you have to convert all textures to .TGAs and place them wher your SMDs are....