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I envy you folks that understand how to compile these scripts you all are like the farmers of the computer world; without you we would all starve creatively. Kudos, to each and every one of you and thanks for making these scripts. Leroy.

I'm sorry Poly but I didn't write the exporter and I'm not sure what to do with the hiearchal grouping part. As it was explained to me by another user Grouping objects in Anim8or is not supported the same way as the way Softimage XSI uses it. Perhaps, you could edit the attached exporter script and I could test it out as I did when Raxx did the original script. As he wrote it it works pretty well with the exception of the object group linking. In order for the Video game engine that reads the model file some parts need to linked in sub groups under other groups.

For example it would look something like this:

main_body
             turret
                    recoil
                           hp_cannon
                           hp_gun_1
                           hp_gun_2
hp_special
flame_1
flame_2

I suppose main_body would be the parent object, turret a child object, recoil a child, the hp's as a child of recoil, etc. Hope this helps explain the issues the exporter has problems with. Leroy.

Cool Thanks.

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What we could use are some simple how to tutorials on how to apply all this useful information Poly. Leroy.

Here's a trick I figured out to get a image thumbnail 32x32 out of Caligari Truespace 7.6 using its render to file function. Load the object you want to use and set the material color to 0 0 0 turn off all lights in the scene and set the background color to 255 255 255.

In the render to file option select PNG as the output format in the out image size set it to 32x32 and save the file to the folder with Tysons button plugin converter.

Open the converter and open the PNG image to convert it to an a8s file and then open the parametric script that you want to use for the button image in a text editor and remove the current button block of text and open the new a8s file and copy the button section to the parameteric script and save it.

At first I could figure out why my first attempt failed showing only a blank button, but after some trial and error I found that turning off the scene lights did the trick in creating a usable image on the button face.

I suppose that it can be done in Anim8or as well but I am not that familiar with Anim8or; prehaps someone more knowledgable could post the steps for doing in Anim8or. Leroy. Happy new year to all btw.

Update: to do it in Anim8or apply a material color of 0 0 0, use the render image function, set the output size to 32x32, the background color to 255 255 255 and select the alpha channel option. The other steps are the same for editing the button in a text editor.

I attached the a8s button for the B-25 Mitchell that I uploaded in an earlier post. Leroy.

Here's a B-25 Mitchell converted to a parametric script using Raxx's new script. This script is quite awesome and I would imagine will become quite useful for sharing models in a script format to some extent. Leroy.

PS: I converted the original Caligari COB B-25 Mitchell model file to 3DS so I could import it in to Anim8or and convert it to a parametric script. The script handles model part data quite nicely. I also had to zip the script as the original was a bit too big to upload. 

It ran fine the first time but then had the white screen issue?