If there's one thing you need to wrap your head around and get right using Blender is to make sure you set Blenders grid properly; you want to be using a Display property "Scale" of "8" with "Subdivisions" "8" to match Radiant default grid spacing (see link) - if you use anything else (Object Scale) you'll not quite match up properly (especially when working offgrid). If you turn on snapping as mentioned above you're basically able to use Blender in a similar way to Radiant.AEon wrote:Thank you... that works for export to Q3A .map... is there a import .map also available?
Installing above Exporter:
For those interested, the above exporter needs to be unpacked into:creating the io_scene_map folder there. Launch Blender, then under File menu, User Preferences, Add-ons tab, find Import-Export: Quake MAP format, enable the addon, and do not forget to hit the Save User Settings button at the bottom of the window. You may need to restart Blender for the addon to take (not sure, I did). After you then create some primitives, select the ones you want to export, use File menu, Export, Quake MAP (.map) to save them in Q3 map format. In Radiant use File menu, Import... to load the primitives into the editor.
- Blender\<version number>\scripts\addons\
Been testing a bit, your suggestion for grid Scale 0.800 leads from a 1.6 sided cube to 160u in Radiant, so 0.01 = 1u.
I noted that the bevel tool actually hollows out the inside of the cube. Is there some way to fill out a hollow object in Blender? I.e. to later do a CSG merge and turn it all into one brush?
Update:
Created a 0.64³ cube in Blender (that is a 64³u³ one in Radiant), turned on Edit Mode, then via Ctrl+B (Bevel) manually set offset to 0.04, segments 1 and profile 0.5 (?), the rest unselected. This recreates "exactly" (dimensions and mostly in shape) the brush cubes in Radiant. But when importing this in Radiant, the brushes (now angled) that define all 12 bevelled cube edges have gone missing. I.e are not loaded and shown by Radiant. Seems these are sub-unit or something... for the larger 160³u³ cube it worked. Hopefully I did not set up something properly...
Funny how good comments arrive a few hours later than what I have learned reading up and trying out things. I read the other article about the grid, Blenders Grid settings, and was a bit surprised that GTKradiant is mentioned but that there is no infobox what would "simply" mention what to set up to get the grid working. If you have the time, updating that article might help newcomers find the info they need more readily. Another thing I would strongly suggest is to separate the article into two sections. One explaining all the info for > 2.49 and the other 2.49 <=... as a Blender newbie and reader the old versions interrupting the "v2.73" pertinent info confuses more than it helps. It makes the good article very hard to read, IMO. Hopefully my comment can be seen as constructive feedback.Kat wrote:If there's one thing you need to wrap your head around and get right using Blender is to make sure you set Blenders grid properly; you want to be using a Display property "Scale" of "8" with "Subdivisions" "8" to match Radiant default grid spacing (see link) - if you use anything else (Object Scale) you'll not quite match up properly (especially when working offgrid). If you turn on snapping as mentioned above you're basically able to use Blender in a similar way to Radiant.
Setting the grid properly also means you should be able to bevel using 'units' - on a 64 unit block, if you type "8" after initialising Bevel, it'll bevel by that value (you can check accuracy by manually loopcutting the mesh "8" units from an edge and comparing to see if the bevel matches [it should do]). You do need to be careful with things like Bevel though because cuts can basically go offgrid and become nonaxial, on export those types of volumes stand a really good chance of getting buggered bad. Incidentally there's also a reference pack containing a few basic cube volumes that are helpful during construction.
. The old exporter apparently simply does no longer properly work with 2.73 it seems. Thus is was not included, apparently.
. I'll experiment with your 8.0 scaled grid and use the MD3 and ASE exporters and see how that goes.Code: Select all
# TODO, make options
PREF_SCALE = 100
PREF_FACE_THICK = 0.1
PREF_GRID_SNAP = False
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PREF_SCALE = 1Code: Select all
PREF_SCALE = 10000Code: Select all
face_thickness = FloatProperty(
name="Face Thickness",
description=("Thickness given to geometry which can't be "
"converted into a brush"),
min=0.0001, max=10.0,
default=0.1,
)
global_scale = FloatProperty(
name="Scale",
description="Scale everything by this value",
min=0.01, max=1000.0,
default=100.0,
)
grid_snap = BoolProperty(
name="Grid Snap",
description="Round to whole numbers",
default=False,
)Code: Select all
face_thickness = FloatProperty(
...
default=1.0,
)
global_scale = FloatProperty(
...
default=1.0,
)
. I kept avoiding the obvious and actually looking at the exporter code... sigh.).....No idea how to use/create solid "volumes". The Create, Cube objects were IMO supposed to be that. Could you walk me though this? Thanks.Kat wrote:Also to avoid or at least mitigate the thickness issue you amended to script for, when you're working don't using planes, use volumes, they exporter works much more comfortable with those (otherwise you end up with corrupt brushes (being to thin or warped incorrectly etc.).
see *.map based levels with Blender 2.49 - advanced where all these issues are explicitly mentioned, already... I was behind in reading..