Character tutorial?

#61 Hey, not doing it in blender :P I'll be a max-user till the day I die.

Yes thats where I was confused - I've known about select and link all along, but the tutorials just gave me a picture of the schematic view and said "it should look like this" nothing ever mentioned the use of select and link, thank you!

#62 @Kevin Mitchell

I'm following another tutorial at the moment(linked by someone else in the thread) and I wanted to add in that it might be helpful when you make yours to at least to go over bone structure and bone-naming conventions. I understand that stuff pretty well so far but I more or less had to cross-reference several different tutorials to come to that conclusion.

#63 I'm making he vid now but your bone naming does not matter the mesh naming does, the links does. I'll post it soon.

#64 Cool. Well I look forward to seeing it.

#65 http://www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/22670

#66 Interesting video, is there supposed to be sound to it? I can't really tell for sure what is going on.

#67 Sorry I have not had success with my mic as it's so low.

#68 All right, I'll have to watch it full-screen a few times and take some notes.

Hey, did you create that RPG Engine Tool Kit? I had never seen that before on my various sojourns through the store, and it is EXACTLY what my team is looking for! One question, though: is it possible to make it run under XP?

#69 Yes, It runs on what ever t3d can work on.

#70 Well I'm totally buying that, you rock!

#71 I'm working through the tutorial posted by Alphaslime (http://www.davidjsushil.com/tutorials/characters.pdf) and it has been pretty good up until about page 8, where it says:

"Like every other model, we need to renumber and embed the shape. So make sure you�ve selected our scuttlebot, and click the Renumber Selection button from the Utilities panel. In the Renumber dialog box, type 2 and click OK. This renames our scuttlebot to �scuttlebot2�. Then, click the Embed Shape button, but only one time. "

Renumber Selection and Embed Shape are features that appear to be missing from 3D Studio MAX as of version 6 at the latest(I could not find them in 6 or 2009) And as such I am basically stuck, unable to proceed.

#72 Just want to jump in here and say that you can now send us a pull-request for content to be added to the T3D wiki. Just fork a copy of this repository, make a new branch, add your content, and submit a pull request!

The SC will be announcing this when we make our intro blog... sometime in the future :P.

#73 Well I think we'd all appreciate some character documentation! So you should see some requests for that.

#74 So I finally found the Renumber Shape & Embed Functions - silly question: does the bounding box need to be an editable mesh, or should it remain a box?

#75 the one for characters never worked for me since they make on via code

#76 I was able to finish the tutorial and export a character, but it doesn't work and doesn't give me any errors. It just fails to load Torque.

That's where I am now.

#77 can i get your character?

#78 Sure, tutorial character

And char I can't figure out how to export properly.

Its got placeholder textures at the moment, still waiting on my texture artist for that part while I try to nail down a process.

By the way, Kevin, I already bought your RPG kit, cannot wait to try it out!

#79 files are corrupted

also thanks , I hope it helps

#80 I suppose I shouldn't be terribly surprised over the corruption. Can you give me any hints on whats causing it?

Thanks, I think the RPG kit will be a really rock-solid base and allow me and my team to focus more on the things we're actually good at.