It does that BEFORE you try to import anything, as soon as you click on the "object wizard" button. My res is 1280x960.

I don't really see how this applies to me... I'm not using Maya. I'm using 3D Studio Max version 5.1.

I did finally manage to get the mesh into 3DS by importing the OBJ to MilkShape, then exporting it as a .3ds file and then opening that into 3DS. x_x
I have a feeling though that the object I want to try sticking into my game won't exactly look right in regards to textures. It's a crystal object and uses a special set of material settings. My guess is that I'd have to just mimic the effect by tweaking the alpha or something...
I've attached a picture of the object... don't mind the blue background, that's just left over from the last time I rendered it, I was using it to decorate my CD case and the cover image had that blue background.

I also modeled a pretty lame looking penguin >_> Probably won't use it cause it looks horrible and I can't remember how to do UVW mapping. Been too long. u_u

Same here...the window with the browse button is already black...so it is BEFORE you import a file. My res is 1024x768.

Edit to add: If I use the "Load 3d File" button everything shows up normal

Did you download Visual Basic 6 runtimes? The tool won't work without it.

Yes, the tool WORKS just great. It's just almost impossible to read (only when clicking the button "object wizard" ).

okay I`ll look into this, it`s going to be hard to find what is wrong as it only does it for some people.

First: I have the same problem as thomasriordan, my object is showing fine in the game but does not appear as an catalog icon. Has anyone an idea how the icons are generated or on what information they are based? Any help would be appreciated.

Second: I have the same problem with black windowparts in the mesh tool that other users reported.

Miche, it reminded me of a windows color setting error. Like the background is referencing a color that is light on some settings.

In windows display properties-appearance I am using Windows XP Style silver. Both tutorials show someone using classic style. (Edit correction: one is xp style olive). If I switch to classic style or the olive xp -- the error IS GONE.

yeah I`m using the classic view. Will correct this. While I do if anyone who has this problem is unsure what each of the three wizard screens say, there are screenshots in the New object tutorial in this sub forum.

Ref: missing icons.
I`m unsure how you make the game rebuild the icons, I`ve only had missing icons when the object doesn`t show up in the game. however I have had icons which haven`t updated straight away after I have made more changes to a object, but they correct themselves after a while.

BriAnna, you are right. I use the Windows XP style silver too and I just switched back to the classic style and it works. Thank you so much.

getting error:

Run-time error '6':

overflow


It happens with various .obj files, (of various sizes) upon trying to import, but not all. Anyone have any information?

thanks,

Brasstex

Black window Parts: Same here. Olive works, silver doesn't.

can you post a obj file that you are getting this problem with, thanks.

None of my object will show up. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Either the old object appears or nothing appears at all.

here is one of them....

Thanks
Brasstex

Just a guess: that's a giant obj file. Most that I've tried are WELL under a mb. That one's 6. I don't think the program can handle that many vertices (and I don't think the game can either.)

I'll confirm that too.

This is normaly a problem with the shape entries, not linking the meshes to the MATD files, recheck this part of your package (and re go through the tutorial)

If that still doesn`t help, there are two ways to check that the importer converted the object correctly:

1: use the 3d view in the mesh tool , the check box for this is on the second screen of the wizard (the bottom check box), or in the file menu on the main screen.
Really to use this, your 3d program needs to create a mtl file (and have the texture files) along with the OBJ file, if the mesh tool doesn`t find the mtl file or texture file then the object will be either white or use the standard texture map (the file called standard.bmp, which you can of course change to what colour you want)

2: Once you have the gmdc file into simpe, you can use Delphy`s plug-in to re-export it and check in your normal 3d progam that it is in fact your new object.

Like some one else said that file is way too big for a object to be placed in the game, it will slow the game right down.

Still I will look into why the mesh tool gives a error.

edit:
I`ve looked and not only is it one big file ...22,000 + vertices

but it looks messed up , it says poser 3.0 created it , but I don`t know what it`s trying to do. The faces just don`t look right at all...this is a few lines of faces from that file. (they shouldn`t look like this)

f 4200/-185339150/4200 3992/1/3992 4201/1/4201

f 4200/-185339150/4200 4283/1/4283 4282/1/4282

f 4200/-185339150/4200 4201/1/4201 4283/1/4283

f 4200/-185339150/4200 4282/1/4282 4199/1/4199

f 3992/-185339150/3992 4199/1/4199 3991/1/3991

f 3992/-185339150/3992 3777/1/3777 4201/1/4201

Ok, I redid the object from scratch and the animations of the toilet seat going up still isn't there. It might actually have something to do with Blender, or the fact that the toilet seat doesn't actually go up or something. I'll analyze the old toilet too and see if the seat goes up, but I think it might.

Oh well, until it gets fixed I'll have to deal with objects that doesn't have any animations such as decorative. Either that, or don't mess with toilets again.

On the Wizard text not being able to be read, I switched to silver and got the same problem. Just thought you might have wanted to know that it's just not their computer.

Thats probably what I did wrong cause that part of the tutorial was really hard to understand. I wasn't sure what to put where.

I've extracted- the afbodyCop file to 5gd and exported the .obj-- I changed the dimensions of certain areas of the mesh in milkshape--saved it. loaded it in the mesh tool and opened the 5gd file as in step 2 then saved it. then I replaced the orig in the package file that i extracted from. the mesh tool did not change the orig mesh to the one I modified. Did I miss something?

the thing you should check first is did milkshake change the names of the mesh (normally it only does this if the name has more than 32 characters in, nbut I guess it could still have done it. As when modifing a existing object, the mesh tool matches the parts from the obj file to the parts in the gmdc file (.5gd) , so if a mesh in the obj file doesn`t match the name of one of the objects in the gmdc file then it ignores that new mesh.

Other than that I don`t know, what options did you have checked ?

when you load in the obj file go to the 3d view (under the file menu) and see if the object was loaded (if you didn`t create material with texture maps when you imported it into your 3d program, then it will appear untextured in the 3d view)

if it`s showing up in there then it`s likely to be a name not matching problem (or you had all the check boxes in the options part unchecked)

It shows in the 3d view. So I should name the obj file body? I have all the box's checked. I used the wavepoint imp in milkshape---and exported wavepoint. Should I weld vertice while in milkshape--Maybe number of vertice is the key?

Hi - It seems that the Object Wizard's colors are messed up. Is anyone else experiencing this? When I go to the Wizard, the backround is black, so I can't read what it says. I know that I could just go through the tutorial to find out, but it is really annoying. How can I fix this?

Thanks!