2011-05-17, 01:23 AM
That's a neat sword design. If we get the add-on section up and running here, you should add it as a regular SoM weapon. The animated model loaded into SoM pretty well. It looks like Mick's MDL converter doesn't support colored polygons though, and the 'hidden' objects become visible when exporting to X format- that answers one question I had. Attached are some fun pics and the SoM model 
I wasn't familiar with FBX, but I looked into it a little and it sounds like it's the standard 3DSMax export format. Is it the plugin suite here that you were referring to? Since Max has import/export plugins for just about everything, it could let us have a lot more flexibility with SoM models.
I did a rough translation and tried to load an FBX into meta but it didn't work as I expected- no animation or skeleton information was imported- just loaded the model as posed in a specific frame during the animation. The objects that seem to be part of the skeleton were all blank. I may be doing something wrong- especially since the model went X to MAX to FBX to Meta. Anyways, a neat find. I'll try it out more when I get the time.
I wasn't familiar with FBX, but I looked into it a little and it sounds like it's the standard 3DSMax export format. Is it the plugin suite here that you were referring to? Since Max has import/export plugins for just about everything, it could let us have a lot more flexibility with SoM models.
I did a rough translation and tried to load an FBX into meta but it didn't work as I expected- no animation or skeleton information was imported- just loaded the model as posed in a specific frame during the animation. The objects that seem to be part of the skeleton were all blank. I may be doing something wrong- especially since the model went X to MAX to FBX to Meta. Anyways, a neat find. I'll try it out more when I get the time.