@skotty,

I will be implementing these changes somethim this week. Will the using the bounding for the radius and setting LOD's to use bounding boxes from LOD0. Just haven't had time to sit in front of the computer.

@Fusion,

What exactly are the plugins doing or not doing?

I know that from another person. He has the same problem: The plugin seems to be invisible in Milkshape.

Just for completeness:

I had a very similar problem with the 3db exporter plugin for milkshape. With using Win7 it just disappeared. Until today I didn't get it working again (anyway unnecessary now).
It may be a problem of Milkshape.

@Piper:

It's really nice to hear how you want to solve our problems

To answer your question, although I have your files, they are not visible in either the File/Import or the File/Export options. I see my CMP import V 2.7 and my CMP 0.2 exporter, but not yours, and that is in the 1.8.4 version. These were downloaded from your posts in page 3, # 40. What am I doing wrong where it can't be seen in those two menus?

Fus

Seconded, P1p3r.

By the way you may remember that a couple of earlier releases didn't show in MilkShape, and you recompiled them but I don't know how or what you had to do?

The 1.8.4 version is referring to Milkshape's version (and SDK used to compile the plugin). Which means it may not work with an older version of Milkshape. If, however, you are using MS 1.8.4 you might try renaming the old import/exporter dll with a ".bak" extension to see if the newer dll shows up then -ie: perhaps the two versions are conflicting and MS only loads the first one it encounters.

Hi P1p3r,

I had a problem with the exporter with the model attached below. After importing the model and working on it (broke it into more groups), MilkShape consistently crashed when trying to export the model.

I have isolated the cause to these hardpoints below, any one of them alone will cause the crash:

HpRunningLight05
HpDockLight01
HpRunningLight03
HpDockLight02
HpRunningLight04

They are just simple ordinary triangles, so I can't understand the cause.

After I replaced all of them with new hardpoint triangles, the model exported fine.

I hope you might discover why these hardpoints cause the problem?

Thanks.

(EDIT: Having fixed the model by making new hardpoints and exporting it, I imported it again to make a couple of changes - and it has the same problem again with the same hardpoints. I used the importer plugin both times.

Has anyone else seen this problem?)

By the way, I discovered that the exporter also crashes MilkShape when there is no material defined, and also when I try to export only hardpoints and no meshes.

If you are going to release another exporter, would you please add a trap and message? It will save hunting for these problems.

Attach file:

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ST Exporter Crash.zip Size: 137.53 KB; Hits: 304

@ST:

Check your C:\WINDOWS\system32\ d3dx9_xx.dlls on both machines and see if one or more dlls are missing from that one which doesn't work with the plugin.

I can verify bw_freighter import/export works fine for me (including hardpoints as well) but I use ms3d 1.8.2 so I wouldn't know if the problem refers to milkshape or not.
I had same problem when I bought a new vga card and the old sur exporter didn't appear on the list and it was connected to directx.

Do you have same hardver setup on both pcs?