Blender into Elemental

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I've read with interest CivFreak's and Heavenfall's excellent post about how to get Blender animations and models into Elemental, but it looks like it stopped a bit short of actually getting something that worked, and what they were doing was pretty heroic to pull off, with a lot of converters.  I was wondering if there was anything in the works for a file converter to bring in .blend files into Elemental directly, or if there were other posts out there that described the process more fully?

I'm getting pretty handy with Blender, and I'm excited to start supplying models back into the community for use with mods.

Winni

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Honestly - once it is setup, the conversion process takes seconds. However there are quite a few switches and toggles that need to be setup right, that's why the tutorials tend to drag on. What is posted tutorial-wise is more than enough to get something exported.

I haven't done any new animations myself, but everything else is within reach (new models, new models skinned to skeletons and different sorts of textures), as far as I am concerned. It's a learning process, of course.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks, Heavenfall, I'll give it a whirl the whole way through and see what I get.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

While I haven't done any animations, I too can concure that you can get blender models into the game. The process is quite daunting at first, and very fickle. However, like Heavenfall said, once you get it, it doesn't take much to get it. I just suck at modeling.