SpiderPig Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Been working on this exporter for Blender 4.0 during the latter half of this week. It's not fully completed yet but I kind of need feedback now to see where it can be improved. io_mesh_ultra_v020.zip Things left to do: Embeded Colliders Calculate & Export Tangents & BiTangents Animation Issues: Won't export a mesh that has no material assigned These are the current default settings: Export Position False (Default) - will not export the objects position. This will be exported as 0,0,0 True - will export position Use Object Name False (Default) - Uses the file name written in the file save dialog to name the exported MDL file True - Uses the object name in blender as the MDL file name Export LODS True (Default) - will search the scene (selected objects or not) for any LOD objects E.g. If you select a model named "Cube", it will search for and export objects that are named; "Cube_LOD1" "Cube_LOD2" etc... False - Does not export LODS Export Collider True (Default) - Searches the scene for an object with a suffix of _PHY E.g. If you select a model named "Cube", it will search for an object named "Cube_PHY" and export that mesh as a collider file. (Embedded colliders coming soon) False - Does not export Collider Convert Textures This is a WIP. It should work, but it is slow sometimes depending on how many and how large your textures are. So if blender hangs and goes non responsive for a few minutes that could be why. False (Default) - will copy textures that the blender materials use to the target directory where you have specified to save the MDL file too. True - Will first convert any non DDS files to DDS with the correct compression, saving them in the same folder as the source image, before then copying the new DDS file over to the target directory where you have specified to save the MDL file too. All DDS file are renamed to the material name appended with the appropriate slot name E.g. If the material name is "Cube" Diffuse textures will be named "Cube_DIFF.dds" Normal textures will be named "Cube_NORM.dds" Ambient occlusion, roughness and metalness maps will be combined into one DDS file name "Cube_AO_ROUGH_METAL.dds" Ultimate the only object you need to select when exporting is the root object. E.g. the LOD0 object. Doesn't currently work if the root object is named LOD0 though. Has to be "Cube" not "Cube_LOD0". I can add support for this if it's needed. You can also batch export be default. All you need to do is select all the root objects that you want to export and it will export them all to the same folder. Best to set "Use Object Name" to true when batch exporting other wise the file names will conflict and each selected object will just overwrite the previous one. Materials are exported to the same directory as the specified MDL path. Here is the only node setup that will be able to collect and export the textures. Please excuse the low resolution image - not sure how I can get blender to render to an image larger than the screen! I'll add some better images later. You don't need all of these images loaded to export the material correctly. From top to bottom on the left hand side, DIFFUSE, AO, METAL, ROUGH & NORM. Love to hear feed back with this and thoughts on how it should be improved! I have had MDL files straight from Blender working in the editor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 To install this, extract the Zip file contents to Blender/4.1/scripts/addons, then in Blender select the Edit > Preferences > Addons menu, search for "MDL" to find this plugin, and check the box to enable it. @SpiderPig Since our PBR materials system is derived from glTF, this page might be useful to you: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/addons/io_scene_gltf2.html 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 Download updated with support for exporting children. Only need to select the root object. All child objects will automatically be exported if they are parented to the root object and export option "Export Children" is set to true. Empties can also be exported as a child. Ultra treats them as a Model without LODs / Meshes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 Updated download. Works with 0.9.6 Fixed a bug where saving a child's position was global instead of local 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 The physics properties in Blender have some rigid body shapes that map closely to Newton. Might be interesting to you: 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 Interesting! I havnt looked at embeded colliders yet. Is the data the same as the external collider? With the json then the binary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 It will be binary, although I have not added it yet. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 Okay, let me know when it's done and I'll get blender to export it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 Updated. Improved speed when exporting large amounts of vertices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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