HowTo:FullUnwrap8Potato - Revision history

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	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Screenshot7.jpg		http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Screenshot7.jpg
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		+	Okay, so, basically, before exporting Wavefront OBJ + MTL one has to delete all materials but one, make that material TexFace, and load the main texture. You can go a step further and load the specular and glow textures, and test render with textures in Blender; but this is not necessary, and at least for me, Blender didn't export the full texture set. Also, if you have vertex colors left from some radiosity bake, press F9 and if you see a vertex color box there press the X next to it. And if you loaded a texture in the UV Edit window's Image menu, Blender will export that one as the material, so you might want to unload it: Select all in potato mode, then in UV Edit you'll see a drop-down box next to the menu with a texture name. Hit the X next to it.
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		+	To add textures you go F5, then to the texture panel on the righ Add, give it a name, like "diffuse", "specular", "glow"; then hit the tiger skin button above the panels...

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	...and only then export to Wavefront obj. I'll tell you how in more detail in the next hour or so.		...and only then export to Wavefront obj. I'll tell you how in more detail in the next hour or so.
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	So, save the xmesh file, then '''mesher cutter.xmesh cutter.bfxm xbc''', and copy the bfxm and all the textures to a "cutter" folder under the units folder. Now we have to edit units.csv to add the ship to the ships list:		So, save the xmesh file, then '''mesher cutter.xmesh cutter.bfxm xbc''', and copy the bfxm and all the textures to a "cutter" folder under the units folder. Now we have to edit units.csv to add the ship to the ships list:

−	HOLD ON: I've been having tons of trouble getting this thing into the game, but I think I've figured out the process; I'll update this stuff in the next few hours. The problem is with mesher's new way of reading the mtl file: Blender was exporting 16 materials, and my editing of the xmesh file with the texture names was not helping, so I could only see the ship's windows, for crying out loud...	+	HOLD ON: I've been having tons of trouble getting this thing into the game, but I think I've figured out the process; I'll update this stuff in the next few hours. The problem is with mesher's new way of reading the mtl file: Blender was exporting 16 materials, and my editing of the xmesh file with the texture names was not helping, so I could only see the ship's windows, for crying out loud... So, first one must delete all materials but one, in Blender; set up that material to use your textures, verify it works...
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/dan_w/WCUships/Cutter/Cutter52.jpg
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		+	...and only then export to Wavefront obj. I'll tell you how in more detail in the next hour or so.

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	Make sure ambient is 0,0,0 RGB. I also changed diffuse and specular colors to 1,1,1.		Make sure ambient is 0,0,0 RGB. I also changed diffuse and specular colors to 1,1,1.

−	So, save the xmesh file, then '''mesher cutter.xmesh cutter.bfxm xbc''', and copy the bfxm and all the textures to a "cutter" folder under the units folder. Now we have to edit units.csv to add the ship to the ships list:	+	So, save the xmesh file, then '''mesher cutter.xmesh cutter.bfxm xbc''', and copy the bfxm and all the textures to a "cutter" folder under the units folder. Now we have to edit units.csv to add the ship to the ships list:
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		+	HOLD ON: I've been having tons of trouble getting this thing into the game, but I think I've figured out the process; I'll update this stuff in the next few hours. The problem is with mesher's new way of reading the mtl file: Blender was exporting 16 materials, and my editing of the xmesh file with the texture names was not helping, so I could only see the ship's windows, for crying out loud...

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 Ah, yes, I remember now, so: '''mesher Cutter.obj cutter.bfxm obc'''. Then '''mesher cutter.bfxm cutter.xmesh bxc'''.
-Open the created cutter.xmesh with Notepad. Now we read the instructions... :D
+Open the created cutter.xmesh with Notepad. Now we read [[HowTo:Add_Ships|the instructions]]... :D
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 Open a command prompt window and navigate your way to that bin folder. Type '''mesher''', read the help.
-Ah, yes, I remember now, so: '''mesher Cutter.obj Cutter.bfxm obc'''. Then '''mesher cutter.bfxm cutter.xmesh bxc'''.
+Ah, yes, I remember now, so: '''mesher Cutter.obj cutter.bfxm obc'''. Then '''mesher cutter.bfxm cutter.xmesh bxc'''.
-Open the created Cutter.bfxm with Notepad. Now we read the instructions... :D
+Open the created cutter.xmesh with Notepad. Now we read the instructions... :D
 (to be continued)

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−	'''Done with the texturing!''' :D That was easy, wasn't it? Didn't even have to pick up a brush... Now we need to put our mesh into Vegastrike format...	+	'''Done with the texturing!''' :D That was easy, wasn't it? Didn't even have to pick up a brush... Now we need to put our mesh into Vegastrike format... Alright, start Blender again, open the save before the temporary we saved for Radiosity, save as a new temporary, say "temp2.blend", Object mode, F9, and where the Mirror Attribute is, click on Apply. Actually, for final work, you might want to ensure that all your vertices near x = 0 are indeed exactly at x = 0, by selecting them all, pressing . (dot), Shift-C, then S X 0 [Enter]. And you might want to do a Ctrl-A also to apply any scaling or rotation that might still be left in Object mode.

		+	You'll need to turn the ship again so that the nose points to the positive Y axis, and the top to positive Z. Sorry; have to Ctrl-A again. Save. Now File -> Export -> Wavefront OBJ. Like this:
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/blender_shotA1.png
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		+	Try File -> New, then Import Wavefront OBJ, see if it loads back okay. Works for me.
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		+	Alright, close Blender, Gimp, everything, and open an Explorer (Konqueror) window into Vegastrike's bin folder. Copy the obj and mtl files in there.
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		+	Open a command prompt window and navigate your way to that bin folder. Type '''mesher''', read the help.
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		+	Ah, yes, I remember now, so: '''mesher Cutter.obj Cutter.bfxm obc'''. Then '''mesher cutter.bfxm cutter.xmesh bxc'''.
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		+	Open the created Cutter.bfxm with Notepad. Now we read the instructions... :D

	(to be continued)		(to be continued)

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−	Done with the texturing! That was easy, wasn't it? Now we need to put our mesh into Vegastrike format...	+	Actually, come to think of it, it seems that the lights themselves didn't come out... Nor did the windows, for that matter... Hmm.
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		+	Let's open Blender again. Open the last revision prior to the temp file, save as "temp2 or something". Well, you don't have to do anything; I'm just telling myself what to do :D. Anyways, what I'll do is turn all my materials to black, except the windows and the green, yellow and red lights. I'll make the lights normal diffuse colors and bake a new texture. The problem was that my lights were non-treaceable, some VcolLight... Here:
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17win.png
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		+	So now I open the Glow.xcf again, slap the windows on a new layer, blend mode normal, and blend factor... let me see... 50% looks just right; actually, the glow texture was too bright before...
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17glow2.jpg
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		+	'''Done with the texturing!''' :D That was easy, wasn't it? Didn't even have to pick up a brush... Now we need to put our mesh into Vegastrike format...

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	So, what do we do with all this?		So, what do we do with all this?

−	Time for some Gimp work...	+	Time for some Gimp work: Close Blender; open Gimp. That last image has too bright a "Hot" material. Select regions by color. A threshold of 19 worked for me. Then bucket fill the whole selection with a dark red. Not too dark, as we're going to darken this image eventually. Save as...
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		+	'''Lights Base:'''
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17lights2.jpg
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		+	Close. Open the materials bake we saved, the "tex" image...
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17tex.png
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		+	Use the select regions by color tool. Too bad Gimp doesn't seem to have a way to select colors by saturation... Set the threshold pretty low, like 6 or 7 and start clicking on black, shift-click one white, and shift-click on every shade of grey you see, until your selection includes everything except vivid colors...
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/blender_shot98.png
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		+	Go to Color Tools, Curves, and drag the bottom-left end of the curve to the top, and the top-right end of the curve to the bottom --i.e.: invert the gray scale colors. Now menu Select -> Invert, so you got all the vivid colors selected. Go to color tools, Saturation; bring saturation down to -33, then brightness up 50 or so. Save that as...
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		+	'''Speccol:'''
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17speccol.png
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		+	Now, open the ambient occlusion we saved...
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17ao.png
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		+	Go to Color Tools, Curves, and make the curve look sort of like...
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		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/blender_shot99.png
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		+	Save as...
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		+	'''DiffAO.png'''
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17diffao.jpg
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		+	Open the ambient occlusion again, but this time set up the color curves sort of like this:
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		+	Save that as ...
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		+	'''SpecAO.png'''
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17specao.jpg
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		+	Without closing it, File -> Open As Layer: Speccol.png that we saver earlier. In the Layers dialog, change the blending mode to multiply. Save that as
		+	'''Spec.xcf''', and then again as...
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		+	'''Spec.png''':
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17spec.jpg
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		+	That is, indeed, our ("final" for now) specular texture. Now open again the "DiffAO.png" we saved earlier, the brightened ambient occlusion. Open as layer the original "tex" materials texture we baked, change the blend mode to multiply, save as '''Diffuse.xcf''', and then again as...
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		+	'''Diffuse.png''':
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17diff.jpg
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		+	And that's indeed our diffuse texture. Now we get to the "glow texture": Open the original ambient occlusion we baked. Open as Layer the original materials bake, like we just did for the diffuse; and set blend mode to multiply. Then open the LightsBase texture we produced as a third layer. Set its blend ratio to about 50%, then blend mode to Add. Save as '''Glow.xcf''' and again as...
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		+	'''Glow.png''':
		+	http://deeplayer.com/wiki/tut/FullUV/Cutter17glow.jpg
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		+	Done with the texturing! That was easy, wasn't it? Now we need to put our mesh into Vegastrike format...