Blender 2.53 to UDK

Permanent · Sep 2010

I realized the other day that there are no good tutorials on how to export static meshes from blender 2.53 to UDK. So I decided to make one for the community!
Give me your honest feedback! link

I can create more of these tutorials on how to create an amazing game using completely free software but I am not sure there is a market for it. So if you enjoyed this then send me a message or leave a comment. If there are enough people then I would love to make more!

Just give me your thoughts!
Thank you for reading and I hope I was able to help you!

Swizzle · Sep 2010

I'm definitely going to give this a thorough look.

Permanent · Sep 2010

Great! Any feedback would be amazing!

Swizzle · Sep 2010

The export script doesn't work for me. When I go to the debug window, this is what it spits out instead of telling me it's complete:

I followed every step exactly as it was presented in the video, but it doesn't work for any model I tried, be they simple primitives I created in Blender or more complex models I'd made before. It just spits out the same stuff in the debug window without actually creating an ASE.

Any idea what would cause this? Do I need to get the latest version of Python? Last time I updated Python was a month or two ago.

EDIT: Just tried updating Python. No dice. Got the same exact result.

kat · Sep 2010

It's not a Python issue. Couple of things to check.

- the name of the material and objects.. make sure they don't have any "*.001" stuff in them.
- the base material ideally should have a "material", "texture" and "image" slot all (datablock) linked to the same 'master' material, you should see the texture on the preview ball
- you may need to shift your install of Blender from your desktop to an actual folder on your system, the 'desktop' is a 'virtual' location of sorts because of the way windows works and Blender/scripts may have issues with that.

I've got some written info on setting the script up and an alt download location here

Swizzle · Sep 2010

Ah, that did it. It's been a while since I used Blender on a regular basis.

Now to figure out smoothing groups...

BlackulaDZ · Sep 2010

@Swizzle - Blender doesnt have real smoothing groups, if you select a bunch of faces and hit the Y key you can split em

Permanent · Sep 2010

yes exactly what kat said. I could have helped you but the community is more efficient at answering questions

I am thinking about creating more tutorials about udk and creating professional games using completely free software. Is this something you guys would be interested in? Im sure most of you in this forum already know what they are doing though.

kat · Sep 2010

Or just use the edgesplit modifier. As for their being real or not... meh o_O

Swizzle · Sep 2010

BlackulaDZ wrote: »

@Swizzle - Blender doesnt have real smoothing groups, if you select a bunch of faces and hit the Y key you can split em

I know Blender is capable of importing and exporting custom normals, at least with OBJs, but, well, I don't know where I'm going with this. $:\$

kaptainkernals · Sep 2010

Thanks for this.

eld · Sep 2010

BlackulaDZ wrote: »

@Swizzle - Blender doesnt have real smoothing groups, if you select a bunch of faces and hit the Y key you can split em

Actually, smoothing groups don't exist outside of max, (it's a wonky and bad concept)

But blender has hard edges, which can be used by applying the edgesplit modifier, selecting a few edges, hitting ctrl-e and choose mark sharp.

Permanent · Sep 2010

@kaptainkernals, yeah bro! I'm glad I could help.

Blender 2.53 to UDK

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