Raydium 3D Game Engine

I have a problem when exporting a blender project to a tri file. (The problem is me, I don't know how to work with blender)

Example:
In object mode, I export to tri the default blender project (the cube without textures), and when I use raydium to show the cube, the result is something like this:


(I must say that I didn't follow completely the instructions in your wiki, because some shortcuts didn't work).

I am using a default blender 2.44 installation for linux.

Thank you for any help you can give,
dionet

When exporting blender to tri you should remember a few things:

-You have to export only triangles, not quads. For that, enter in edit mode in each object and press control+t.
-You have to apply transformations. For that, in object mode, press alt+a
-The normals has to be always pointing to the outside. In edit mode, select all the faces, and in the button tab, at the right(Standard layout) and press Draw -Normals. All should point(blue) to the exterior. If someone point inwards, flip it by hand.
-The semi-transparent textures won't work in certain objects. Make sure, in Gimp, the texture has alpha 0 or 100, but not intermediate values.

Hi,


It could be interesting to know which one (so we can update the wiki)

It seems that your model was not triangulated before the export. The log in the console could help you to see such troubles.
You can go in edit mode, select all vertices (A key), triangulate the model (CTRL+T) and get back to object mode. It should do the trick.

When I do CTRL+T nothing happens, is that normal?

I've just done the test with the 2.44 : CTRL+T is still the shortcut to convert faces to triangles. You should see the faces of your cube cuted, like this:


Have you selected all vertices (selected color is yellow) ?

Thank you, it works now

The problem is that I was deselecting vertices instead of selecting

OK, nice. Could you say more about the non working shortcuts you found on the wiki ?

They still work, for example, the Ctrl+T that didn't work was because I was not selecting vertices.

Sorry, but I have another question.

When I do Ctrl+T on some models it will only triangulate the selected part. (For example, in a house project, it will only triangulate the selected window)

Is there any way to select all objects? When I press A, it only selects the selected object .

Thank you

No, you must triangulate objects one by one. A trick could be to join all objects just before the export (do not save this after, or you'll save only one big object):
In object mode, select all objects (A, they must all become pink), an join them with CTRL+J.

That's it.

As a side advice: get a few tutorials about Blender, it will make your life ... better

Ok, thank you again.

Yes, I will read some tutorials and I will stop asking questions about blender here

Hi,

I do also have problems with the Export Script.
As vicentecarro said I applied the transformations, and this didn't work at all.
Just the resize information is applied in the exported tri-file, the position is still at the center of all axis.
I have also triangulated the planes but same effect...
And the normals just can point to the exterior, because its a plane

So what is the problem?

greetz matzze

Not sure to understand your message, you should add way more informations when reporting a trouble.

Are you using the latest export script ? (triEXP-full.py)
If yes, have you checked "Save Object Pos" option ?

And I don't get your sentence about normals. You know that a plane have two different normal vectors, did you ?