Manual LODs on segmented characters
by soy.bean · in Artist Corner · 07/24/2004 (2:24 am) · 0 replies
Hi all,
I'm using max6 and it seems that applying multiRes to export LODs seems very difficult (i've tried several times and it always quits with an error) so I hope anybody can help me out on doing manual LODs.
I've looked around in the forums and I found topics about manual LODs but most of them are 'skinned' together (using the Skin modifier), either as a continuous mesh or segmented.
Now I'm not sure how to do this but my character is a segmented mesh (where the head is seperated by the torso and arms, etc. in individual meshes) character and I would like to just bind them with the bone, thus I won't need to 'skin' them. How should I do the LODs manually?
I'm guessing that I will need to snapshot each mesh, collapse a MultiRes modifier to it (reducing the polys) and change the names corresponding the detail markers (head40, arms40, etc) and export. Is this right? Does anybody have experience with this?
thanks!
[g]
I'm using max6 and it seems that applying multiRes to export LODs seems very difficult (i've tried several times and it always quits with an error) so I hope anybody can help me out on doing manual LODs.
I've looked around in the forums and I found topics about manual LODs but most of them are 'skinned' together (using the Skin modifier), either as a continuous mesh or segmented.
Now I'm not sure how to do this but my character is a segmented mesh (where the head is seperated by the torso and arms, etc. in individual meshes) character and I would like to just bind them with the bone, thus I won't need to 'skin' them. How should I do the LODs manually?
I'm guessing that I will need to snapshot each mesh, collapse a MultiRes modifier to it (reducing the polys) and change the names corresponding the detail markers (head40, arms40, etc) and export. Is this right? Does anybody have experience with this?
thanks!
[g]
