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Using Blender instead of ModTool_7.5?

August 29, 2009 3:15:39 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hello. I already have some modeled, textured, and rendered ships I did with Blender3D and GIMP that I would like to use in Sins. I tried simply exporting them from Blender as Softimage .xsi format files, but ConvertXSI was not happy with them. I downloaded ModTool_7.5 and tried openning the .xsi files there, but that did not work either. Does anyone know how to do this, or why ModTool would fail to open an .xsi file?

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Whiskey144
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Reply #1 August 29, 2009 3:58:41 PM
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hmm, well, I suggest that instead of exporting from Blender as .xsi, export as .obj. A more universal format, but unfortunately you'll have to reset your texture data in Softimage.

Don't bother with 7.5, that's the official 'Pro' (meaning your $$$ on Autodesk's pocket) version. Get the 6.01 version, it's free.

Since you said that you tried to do the convert xsi, I assume that you've already D/Led the Forge Tools 3. You NEED Softimage XSI 6.01 Mod Tool to do the- Texture hook-up so that Sins will recognize it properly; hardpoints, like exhaust, weapons, and ability effects origins on the meshes, and possibly some other stuff.

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Reply #2 August 29, 2009 6:31:39 PM
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Okay, thank you very much. I was not clear on that. The links I had seen earlier did not lead to XSI 6.01 but to 7.5 and I saw nothing saying it was not free. I'll try to find 6.01 though so maybe at least the tutorials are clearer. I'm afraid I do not have the time to relearn 3D modeling nor in another tool, so I hope this is not too difficult...

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Reply #3 August 29, 2009 6:37:44 PM
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essentially, you can model with anything that can export to a format that can be read by XSI Mod Tool. your best bet is the .obj format (Wavefront OBJ).

XSI Mod Tool is only necessary for hardpointing the meshes, and hooking up textures. Even then, texture hook-up can be done manually after TXTing the BINary mesh.

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Reply #4 August 30, 2009 7:13:42 AM
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I really don't like XSI, I use max instead. Im suprsied no one seems to have made a better workflow than xsi yet.

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