Milkshape = no surfaces?

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John Blackledge (Posted 2005) [#1]

I exported a model of a cube as a test from Milkshape, and wanted to draw a red rectangle around it (in the usual way with GetSurface > vertices), but Blitz reports no surfaces! There appears to be no way around this - no surfaces, no vertex info. Anyone seen this before, or have a way around it?

Shambler (Posted 2005) [#2]

I can only think that the exported mesh has a root node and your actual mesh is a child of it.

John Blackledge (Posted 2005) [#3]

I just checked (I use) - cc = CountChildren(pictentity) For i=1 To cc ww=GetChild(pictentity,i) If EntityClass$(ww)="Mesh" cs = CountSurfaces(ww) etc... "Mesh" is returned ok. Then cs returns zero. Good, eh? Not! Any ideas?

* (Posted 2005) [#4]

Hmm, import mesh into Decorator (available from Blitzcoder) export mesh again and then use that. I have had this once on a carrier I was working on and I had to do that as it seemed the ship just had a root and nothing else.

John Blackledge (Posted 2005) [#5]

Thanks, that would do it. But I was hoping that the user could load their own choice or model (which they had created - that's the kind of app it is). This is still possible, but I can't put a 2D rect around it to show that it can be dragged. That's all I'm trying to do.

* (Posted 2005) [#6]

I had the same trouble with a targetting reticle in Fury Squadron. That was the way I got round it :)

Ross C (Posted 2005) [#7]

Milkshape has a bug in exporting. It doesn't export entity names, or children names. I don't know if that would affect it? What i ended up doing was taking my model into Ultimate Unwrap, and adding in the names these.

John Blackledge (Posted 2005) [#8]

Thanks, Ross. But as I said I was hoping that the user could load their own choice or model (which they had created - that's the kind of app it is). Ah, well, at least I know it's not me, and I can give a warning, or pass on your advice. Again, thanks to all for your comments.