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[Lordcaim]

Hello, I'm making a game and I'm not entirerly sure how to make bullets get propelled forward from the gun. I'm tring to put in 3d to, how do you use the converter?

thanks for the help   

[Tenorm]

Hi,
that´s easy:

1. Open "Werkzeuge(tools)/3d convert"
2. Klick "(+) Keyframe"
3. Choose your file
4. Klick "open"
5. Klick "->ddd"

6. A black window is openening.
7. If it had finished working, press a key

FINISH

[Schranz0r]

well explained !

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BUT(btw):

Klick = click
A black window = console
If it had finish working = when its finished

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[Tenorm]

Thanks a lotty,
but my english isn´t as well as yours.

[Schranz0r]

ROFL 

[Lordcaim]

I did all of that, and figured out it problem isn't going to take pictures made by the paint system after awhile So since I'm going to buy AC3D over the summer I thought maybe I could use a system called Blender before hand, turns out it's very confusing and has no way of seeing the image your making from all sides  I haven't given up yet though, but I just want to know, are the downloads on AC3D the product you pay for or a demo. If it's a demo i'll use that! 
Thanks again for the help

[Tenorm]

Blender is brilliant, but a bit difficult to learn and , in m opinion, too slow.
Milkshape 3D is easier to learn. You can download a 30 days Trialversion for free.

@Schranzor: Wenn da wieder Fehler drin sind, is es mir wurscht

[Schranz0r]

mist hatte schon wieder paar Dinger gefunden, dann verbietet er mir's noch   

[Lordcaim]

I found a good system to do my models on, but before I go crazy with it textures are what are used to color a model and give it texture (as the name implies ) right? Oh and how do you make textures. 
Sorry if I being to questiony.   
If all goes well I should have level one of my game Red Earth done soon.

[Ian Price]

Textures are indeed what give models a skin. Textures are simply an image that is wrapped around a 3D model.

However, wrapping an image is the tricky part (after modelling), as you need to make sure that the right part of the model is showing the right part of an image (no point in having an eye on a humans back, if you don't line up the image properly).

What you need to get is a program that will take your model and unwrap it, ready for you to paint on the unwrapped skin, then re-wrap it onto your model. This is sometime called UVMapping.

There are various free and commercial programs to do this. Just look on Google, although I use LithUnwrap, which is both simple and free - http://www.sharecg.com/v/5169/software-and-tools/LithUnwrap---Free-UV-Mapper-for-Windows

[Lordcaim]

I have one last question, what is the best way to make some hair on the models. Right now everyone is bald. Should I just paint it on or actually model it

Thanks

[Ian Price]

The choice is yours, but modelling hair will increase the polygon count and perhaps slow the game down on slower machines. Painted hair can look just as good if done correctly. It will depend on the models though and your abilities at modelling and painting.

[Moru]

Just wanted to correct you on the Blender program, you can see your model from all sides, use the 1, 3 and 7 buttons on your numeric keyboard. If you want to see all three directions + camera at once you will have to split the 3D-view. This you can do by moving your mouse onto the upper, left and right borders of the 3D-view and right-click (or middle, not sure wich). Then you get a menu asking you if you want to split the window and some other things. Choose split and place the line/mousepointer where you want the split. Then you can change all windows into the view you want by placing the mousepointer in the window and press 1, 3, 7 or 0 depending on what view you want there. (This is just about everything I know about blender still :-)

[Lordcaim]

Next question, how do you make textures? The reason I'm asking now is because school kept me from asking sooner but it's out so HUZZA! Thanks for the help

[Ian Price]

A texture is just an image file (.BMP, .PNG, .JPG or whatever).

You can use any drawing package to create a texture. Applying it your model and making it look right is the hard part - for this, you need to use a UV Wrapper (like LitheUnwrap), which will rip the skin off of your plain 3D model and output it into a format that makes it much easier to draw your texture on. It can then be re-added and saved as a fully textured model.