Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: AlphaMaleCourage on July 11, 2013, 06:39:34 am

Title: Not In A Good Mood.
Post by: AlphaMaleCourage on July 11, 2013, 06:39:34 am: I have no idea if this should be here or not. I'll do that erftgyhujihbgtvrdes3a4dt thingie if so.

Alright. I am very frustrated at this moment, due to the pain known as meshes. I recently am making a map(May or may not put it on here). I downloaded these meshes from this fine Feral Heart Member:

http://www.onelittlecorner.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fhdownloads&action=display&thread=6

Alright. So I did the basic stuff. Put Everything in my_objects, then opened up FH, went on the mesh thing, and then I typed "bigcliff.mesh" in the mesh box. I did not include the material, because it comes with one already. I then pressed the start up thingie that I forgot the name of, and then it said it could not be found. So, I tried other meshes that I downloaded, like Den4 + 3, and they failed to be revealed aswell. I now am kind of twitching around everywhere, trying to find some way to fix it.

Hope you can help me out. I'm up to the point where I'm about to get my chainsaw.
Title: Re: Not In A Good Mood.
Post by: Prinprinkley on July 11, 2013, 06:39:46 pm: Actually, I think this would belong in the help thread, but it is up to a mod to move it hopefully. As for the topic, I haven't made maps before, so I can't help I'm afraid ):
Title: Re: Not In A Good Mood.
Post by: LordSuragaha on July 11, 2013, 06:45:54 pm: Indeed. Moving this to the Game Help section~
Title: Re: Not In A Good Mood.
Post by: AlphaMaleCourage on July 11, 2013, 08:49:49 pm: My bad about that. I was just being the noob I am, and put it in there. I didn't see the game help thing. :I
Title: Re: Not In A Good Mood.
Post by: Warrior4ever on July 12, 2013, 12:40:47 am: This is the simplest (and only, but that's not the point x3) solution I could think of; did you close down all the programs you had open related to the meshes before opening FH? Such as My Documents, the game itself, the download page, etc.?
Title: Re: Not In A Good Mood.
Post by: Thierry on July 12, 2013, 02:14:29 am: Most meshes from hamilton and many other users does not load any material by default, so you get a white object.
You need to know a little about material scripts and some tips if you want to deal with meshes.

When you downloaded a mesh, after you placed it on the game, you have to close Feral Heart and restart it to the changes will take effect.
All meshes "should" come with a material script, but its not linked to the object so, You need to open the .material file with notepad and search for the material name.
The material name comes after the keyword material just like this:
material TigerPelt
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         ambient 0.588235 0.588235 0.588235 1
         diffuse 0.588235 0.588235 0.588235 1
         specular 0 0 0 10 0

         texture_unit
         {
            texture TigerPelt.jpg
         }
      }

   }
}

Then at Object maker when you load the mesh, there are a box for the material name. When the mesh is selected you type there the material name and should be correctly loaded.

If you want to try some meshes that load correctly without dealing with the materials you can try with my own meshes (http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=8174.230), and if they load correctly, then you are doing everything correctly.

One more tip at making your maps:
create your own object groups and don't modify the ones that comes with the game.
download meshes slowly and cheking FH still working, specially when downloading particles.
install a copy of FH for map making and another for testing/playing.