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Bacon visual prowess Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 1254	Posted: 07-08-2014 06:57 PM                  I have a player model I made, and it loads in the game fine, everything is done, but there's one final problem i'm having. Whenever you go too close to the model, or say zoom in and the camera gets too close, the torso and legs dissapear (but the head never does). Does anyone know what causes this? _________________ CAPSLOCK IS ON
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CZghost The hell good boy Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 1922	Posted: 07-22-2014 04:31 AM                    If you have said that it disappears when get too far, it might be caused by missing LOD files (basic player model file name plus underscore plus number of distance (1 for medium distance, 2 for long distance) (plus extension .md3)... I'm not 100% sure what causes that in the short distance, but there must be something with the three files of player model... Forwarding to more skilled modellers here... _________________ [ Websites | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram ] “When you feel the worst, turn to the sun and all the shadows will fall behind you.” - John Lennon
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Bacon visual prowess Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 1254	Posted: 07-22-2014 02:26 PM                  Thanks for replying, but I figured it out a while ago. I had to set the origin of the meshes to their center in blender, before exporting. _________________ CAPSLOCK IS ON
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CZghost The hell good boy Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 1922	Posted: 07-23-2014 07:21 AM                    Well, I didn't recognise that Also make sure you have LOD files for your player model included as well. LOD stands for Level Of Details, if you don't know. LOD files are regular models, but with simplified meshes than basic player model files. There are two of these file, each has filename of the body part (head, upper, lower), underscore and number which describes how far you are from the player/model. Of cource also extension, which is md3. Number 1 stands for medium distance and number 2 stands for far distance. Number 2 will be even more simplified than number 1, that is as well simplified version of basic model. Check out that they are there, if it is missing, game might cause model disappearing when you get further from it. This does apply also for item models as well, only mapmodels do not use this technique as they are baked directly in the BSP tree, so you don't have to include the source model, but you should include textures and shaders the model is using or you will get the ugly black&white grid texture on it or the shaders won't work. _________________ [ Websites | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram ] “When you feel the worst, turn to the sun and all the shadows will fall behind you.” - John Lennon
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WendyB Trainee Joined: 12 May 2013 Posts: 33	Posted: 08-21-2014 07:56 AM                  Did you use the Pop'n'Fresh exporter for 3dstudio Max? If so, this problem is caused by the exporter. You can fix it by loading up each MD3 file into Npherno's MD3 Compiler, rebuilding the normals, then reexporting. Edit: nevermind, I noticed you solved it already. However, maybe my reply can help someone else. _________________ My skins on Worldspawn
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