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Generally speaking Blender uses open source, GPL'd or similarly licensed material that why they "can do it" as you put it. You can't use Window stuff under Linux because that material is licensed to or by Microsoft who basically 'wall in' their property. Licensing and codec support aren't necessaril...

Anyone providing 'data' services is required by law to provide an opt-out mechanism where personal details are involved. The opt-out mechanism would be not signing up in the first place. The whole point here is to share information. :roll: I could rebut that by saying "if you want to "share informa...

...I'm perfectly ok, with the strict authentification proccess proposal and making _all_ contact data aviable to registered people on an obligatory basis.... There are Data Protection Law implications with what you suggest where individual people are concerned (persons of "flesh and blood"). Anyone...

Look here: 3dmagixpro.com in the screenshots, they're showing Blender and they'ye selling the program for $27 and eventually for over $100. I recommend looking into this ASAP. I've been tracking this for a while here . The general consensus is that he can do it because of an * interpretive loophole...

I need to export my meshes from Blender 2.54 to UDK. I used to be able to do it in 2.53 thanks to a third party script but it doesn't work in the new release of Blender. What can I do? Why doesn't Blender support .ase inports and exports? Thanks, Bob For the record on this one, you need to download...

what i have said is true. vertices at hard edges will always be separated in the vertex buffer. i don't know the internals of the UT 3 engine but i could imagine its model loader unfortunately merges the vertices again. :) some mesh optimizing algorithms do this (for example the ones of the d3dx li...

(smooth 'groups' need to be exportable rather than being used as an interpretive 'slice and dice' that splits the mesh up into subsections - vertex count matters in games [as you may know])... look at how a vertex buffer which gets used in opengl or directx looks like. the normal get stored with a ...

kat, you can already mark hard edges it gives the exact same end result. LetterRip I know, but AFAIK it's not 'game compatible' yet, ie. the data isn't exported out to the various modelling formats; wither that's a export script or Blender update issue I don't know (smooth 'groups' need to be expor...

(sorry for the necrobump) Blender NEEDS better smooth grouping . If we want Blender to be considered a professional game development tool it sadly will not happen unless it incorporates 3DS Max style smooth groups , without that it's pretty much dead in the water (there are ways around it but the c...

(sorry for the necrobump) Blender NEEDS better smooth grouping . If we want Blender to be considered a professional game development tool it sadly will not happen unless it incorporates 3DS Max style smooth groups , without that it's pretty much dead in the water (there are ways around it but the ca...

I can never remember which 'direction' is which 'orientation', so yes you're right the axis points 'up' along the 'positive' axis rather than 'down' along the negative. heh. I did have another bone orietation issue elsewhere that exhibited the same squewed bones but that was fixed with rebuilding th...

So if I understand that correctly the script was basically doubling up the bones which then mixed up the exported data? (two references being combined together?). Good to know you didn't have to do a complete re-write of the code!

...can't say this too sure, but I recently noticed a weird phenomenon: rotating a bone changes(read scales) the bone(read mesh)... Thank's for the responce. I wonder if it's a 'global' problem then? I've not thought to try roll on other bones becasue I only needed to do it in one particular place s...

Just posting this to double check a bone rotation issue with the updated (??) Cal3D export script that's included with 2.45. There appears to still be a minor problem with bone rotation information along the negative (??) 'Y' axis when exporting armatures out; if a bone is rotated through 180 degree...

@ henti : yup been doing that, still trying some other options
@ theeth : Thanks. I'll reply in that thread.