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Posted: 3rd Feb 2016 22:07
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Hey guys
I am not expertise with Fragmotio, honestly only use it when need import some X file>convert to obj> and export it.

I've a couple of questions:

1- I'm having issues when importing from Max the obj file, the meshes comes inverted, please see the pics bellow to get the point right. (please notice the arrows)

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2- Meshes comes triangulated, I do not want this, I want my mesh quad (polygons instead of triangles) as before.
When I tried to use "Quadrify all" modifier, I usually get a mesh with faces broken, so finally I have too work with triangulate mesh.

Any way to avoid this in Fragmotion, What I am missing ?

Thanks for all feedbacks.

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2016 23:17
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Check in fragmotion: transform -> mirror all -> select axis for it to be correct.



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Posted: 4th Feb 2016 16:38
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Thanks very much Wolf!, it Works.

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Posted: 5th Feb 2016 16:56
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Another trick for Fragmotion is to set the renderer to use renderD3D9.dll.
Change this in the screen.txt file in the exe directory. By default it uses open GL, so if you switch it to
DirectX to view the models in Fragmotion you will know it will appear the same in GG.
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Posted: 5th Feb 2016 19:36
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Nice trick Stab in the Dark software, thanks for feedack.
I've tried and it works.

Any trick to get non triangulate meshes, just polygonal (quad)?

I took some max polygonal model and export it as X file, then import it in Fragmotion, then export it as Obj file, then import it in Max, and I got a model full triangulate (triangles instead of polygons), and I prefer work with polygonal ones, specially when UVWrapp comes.

The reazon is than I loss a lot of Max models, amoung other files, in my last pc crash, I've to format pc, fortunatelly I've backups of X files in a pendrive, so now I should to recovery them via system I refer above, but most time I've to re-texture them, and I don't wat to deal with those triangles, in fact I hate them.

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Posted: 5th Feb 2016 20:04
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Unfortunately, Fragmotion only works with triangulated meshes.
What I do is Load the X file in Fragmotion and export as obj file.
Then Import the obj in Wings3D. In Wings3d select all faces and use right click menue
go to Tessellation and select untriangulate. This will revert the model to quads. Then you can export
in obj as quads. What is nice about Wings3d is you can untriangulate and preserve uv, and normals.
I actually do all my modeling and uv mapping in WIngs3d then export to obj and import into Fragmotion for
rigging and animating and exporting to x file. I recently worked with the author of Fragmotion to update the x file exporter
to correctly export to .x so it was fully compatible with DBPro and GG.
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Quote: "rigging and animating and exporting to x file. I recently worked with the author of Fragmotion to update the x file exporter
to correctly export to .x so it was fully compatible with DBPro and GG."

Oh mate, this is a very good news.

Downloading Wings3d ....

Ty again Stab in the Dark software.

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Posted: 5th Feb 2016 21:59 Edited at: 6th Feb 2016 19:49
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Almost forgot there is an another addition for Fragmotion.
I needed this to remove bones from a models rig with out messing up the bones hierarchy.
http://www.fragmosoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=1052.0

Also if you are rigging a character model in Fragmotion zero the joints before adding animations.
The joints need to be zeroed in the default pose / first frame of animation to work correctly with the
Physics ragdoll in GG. If your model already has animations and the joints rotations are not zeroed
there is a way to fix it in Fragmotion. I will make a video and post a link here.
If you are using 3dsMax for rigging Bond1 made a video on how to zero the joints in Max.
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Posted: 5th Feb 2016 22:09
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Quote: "there is a way to fix it in Fragmotion"

i am very interested in that..

Thank you

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Quote: "If your model already has animations and the joints rotations are not zeroed
there is a way to fix it in Fragmotion. I will make a video and post a link here."


That would be great! I use Fragmotion a lot and am currently trying to rig a character, which is going OK, but can't get the rag doll to work properly, so this would help I guess

And this is a great tip too
Quote: "Another trick for Fragmotion is to set the renderer to use renderD3D9.dll."
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Here is a video on how to zero the joints rotations for a character model using Fragmotion.

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Posted: 6th Feb 2016 00:30
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awesome tutorial Stab.
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Posted: 6th Feb 2016 00:43
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That worked thank you

Was struggling with this for hours the other day.

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Wow, thanks!
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Posted: 6th Feb 2016 01:16 Edited at: 6th Feb 2016 01:20
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Your welcome. I came up with this solution while designing the physics ragdoll used in GG.
Unfortunately some of the default character models in GG do not have the joints zeroed.
I guess they did not think it was important to get it right. It is an industry standard to zero
the joints rotations of the models bones before applying animations.

P.S. I guess the community can fix all the default models now.
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This is indeed very helpful. Easy to follow and straightforward video aswell! thanks!



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Posted: 6th Feb 2016 09:48
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Thank you very much for this video....
very very helpfull


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Stab very useful video! Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Posted: 6th Feb 2016 15:30 Edited at: 6th Feb 2016 19:50
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Here is another video showing how to add the custom script I mentioned above.
The script allows removal of bones while preserving the hierarchy of the remaining bones.
This is very useful when you need to reduce the total bone count to 60 for use in GG.
The link for the script is posted above and in the video description and here.

http://www.fragmosoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=1052.0


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Nice one Stab!. Thanks for sharing.

Quote: "The link for the script is posted aboveThe link for the script is posted above"

These link is linking to this thread, at least for me. though.

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Opps sorry, I fixed the link for script.


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Ty Stab.

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@stabinthedark, any chance you could do a quick video showing how to rig an animate a model in fragmotion from scratch or do you rig all your models before using fragmotion?
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I do all of my rigging, vertex weighting and animating in Fragmotion.
I will make at least 3 videos on this as soon as I get a chance in the next few days.
Actually the next video I had planned was how to reduce an existing animation to just key frames.
A lot of the default models have 6000 plus frames of animation which makes the model file larger than it need to be.
On average a 8mb model can be reduced to 800kb which takes up less memory and reduces load times.
GG has no problems just using key frames because it can interpolate the in between frames.
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When it is all done you should create a new sticky thread with all videos so that it dose not get lost this is very useful information to every one and it should also be part of the GG tutorial maybe advance topic or something like that.
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Here is another video that covers a problem you may encounter when Merging animation in Fragmotion.
This seems to occur with Mixamo models animation but may happen with other models.


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Nice. Thanks for doing these vids and sharing - very helpful.

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Again thank you very much for this.
very helpfull...

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Invaluable info Stab!!

Thanks again.

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Another excellent tutorial Stab. If anyone is interested in more fragmotion videos, I have them available for download on my site.

http://www.chaosbrosfilms.com

go to joe's page..... right mouse click and save.
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Great videos ... very informative and to the point.

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Quote: "Another trick for Fragmotion is to set the renderer to use renderD3D9.dll.
Change this in the screen.txt file in the exe directory. By default it uses open GL, so if you switch it to
DirectX to view the models in Fragmotion you will know it will appear the same in GG."


Can someone show me how to do this,i tried but fragmo just crashes .

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Firts check if you've the "renderD3D9.dll" file, in the path bellow:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Fragmosoft\fragMOTION 1.3.4\Renderers

If so, searh for a file named "screen.txt", edit it via notepad, and assure it has just 1 line, like "renderD3D9.dll", in the path bellow:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Fragmosoft\fragMOTION 1.3.4

Close Fragmotion before do nothing.

And if you already made so, wth not to avail, and simply frag crashed because the dll, perhaps reinstalling from scrash, I really not expert with fragmotion.

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I don' now if it's the same issue i'm having, but on my windows 8 machine have to run fragmotion in Windows XP compatibility mode and as an admin or it crashes for me.

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Quote: "I don' now if it's the same issue i'm having, but on my windows 8 machine have to run fragmotion in Windows XP compatibility mode and as an admin or it crashes for me."


This should not be happening. What version are you running and has this always been this way?



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Posted: 14th May 2016 10:26 Edited at: 14th May 2016 10:29
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Stab in the Dark Software -thanks for the tips , I've learnt a lot more about FM now. Also , downloading Wings3D, im sure I had used that before but for the life of me can't remember, there are so many out there.
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Posted: 14th May 2016 10:43 Edited at: 14th May 2016 12:24
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I think I'm being dumb, but can't locate tesselation in Wings3D (oh dear), the online documentation seems to be as useful as a chocolate teapot, either that or I'm blind as a bat. Anyway, looks like good software and will try out the other tuts. thanks again SITDS

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Posted: 14th May 2016 12:10 Edited at: 15th May 2016 11:49
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deleted bones without affecting hierarchy using lua script, thanks again. The only issue I had was when I zero'd the joints it messed up the model post merge animations of masked soldier, so I will probably leave that step out, unless I did something wrong somewhere.

[update- ok I must be having a "I'm being thick" day, works ok, I messed up somewhere and tried again and all fine-thanks SITDS]
[UPDATE2-not ticking the "export groups" in Fragmotion seems to stop animations working, so will keep "export groups" ticked when exporting from FM.
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