theres a flash video tutorial a few posts up, as for what it should look like, iam not sure, just that it seems the problem is probably weight related, you can view what weights other working vertices's have, by going in edit mode, and hitting N to pop up the properties window, and if you select single vertices's it there will be a drop down with the bone weights the vertex has.

Thanks. I guess I'll just tinker with it until it looks okay.

Is there a way to retain the weights of the vertices in a group even after adding new vertices to it? All I've been doing is extruding vertices already in a group, and then regrouping them. Is this what's messing up all the weight data for each vertex?

Again, thank you for all your help.

if you mean, have the new extruded vertices have the weights of the one they're extruded from, not any automatic that way i know of.

Aaaah! I'm an idiot!

When I was assigning extruded vertices to a group, I was accidentally selecting the group AS WELL AS the new vertices, which was apparently resetting all the weights in the group to 1.

The faceslap smiley does no justice to how stupid I feel right now...

Thank you so much for helping me (even when the problem was my error! Arrgh!). You're my new favorite person. Thank you thank you thank you!! :lovestruc

Oh, Duh! I am so used to triangulating on export for .obj that I didn't even stop to think about that. Thanks!

i may add the option to triangulate automatically, i just didn't want to mess something up if people prefer editing with quads.

perhaps having the script make a copy of the mesh, triangulating, exporting then deleting the copy, as a option.

All Right! Just what I needed! Getting into meshing with blender....I need to work on it........

OMG im so grateful, i looove free programs, and i've always hated that i couldn't edit animations! Thank you honni!

Hey again, bobcatben! Great update for the already ingenious scripts. All the meshes on my site are made with these. :D

o wow, i had wondered if anyone made any successfully yet, i myself am still working on making one from scratch(not a problem with the script, just lack of creative ability, got the meshing done, and im about 3/4th done with the uv mapping.)

i also recently added some code to the exporter that normalizes bone weights if they don't add upto 1.0,
also confirmed the scripts work on linux.

The uvmapping capabilities of blender make these scripts just that much more awesome. I always hated having to struggle with lame uvmapper. >

I would think people would be jumping all over this, but I guess not too many know how to use blender. Oh well. :D

uvmapping is what im stuck on with my own model for sims 2, that and realistic looking rigging lol

Yeah, the uvmapping was ridiculously confusing when I first started out, but now I've got it. :D

I've been making lots of cool objects, now that I can assign verts to joints easily. My simmies have a neat sarcophagus to sleep in now!

someday i hope someone will update the wiki page for blender that says it cant do animated meshes/body meshes.

I'm getting an error message in the console. I doubt it has anything to do with the scripts (they're cream of awesome, by the way), but it's keeping me from importing a clothes mesh.

"UnboundLocalError: local variable 'arm' referenced before assignment"

Is there a solution to this?

Hanomaru:

Can you give a little more info? Like what you were editing, etc.?

Thank you so much!!! You really helpd me with this tool!

Thankyou so much for these plugins
Installed Blender and plugins provided, imported the sim body .smd mesh and exported to .3ds. Imported the .3ds into max 9 in the hope of doing some animation but found that all I ended up with was a box! Could you give me any help here?

the box is the default blender cube, it must have gotten exported instead of the mesh you imported, you should delete it first.

Thankyou Bobcatben I will try that and post any success here

You are my hero, really wonderful...thank you so much!! =)

Hey, Ben... I just recently ran into a problem with your scripts and Blender 3D for some odd reason. (It was working perfectly fine this morning... >_< )

Anyways, I'm running on the most recent version (2.45), and like I said, I've used your scripts just fine until about thirty minutes ago, when Blender all of a sudden froze up and crashed while I tried to save my progress. I tried opening it up again, and it froze again before the splash screen came up, and crashed to the "Windows Error Reporter" box. I even rebooted the computer to see if it was a memory problem, but it still occured.

I uninstalled blender and re-installed everything, tried it without the scripts and it seemed okay. Then I re-downloaded and put your scripts back in again, tried it out, and it opened up as it should've... but as soon as I chose the "Import" function to try and do the same mesh edit I was working on again, it froze (again) and crashed once more.

I'm pretty much at a loss on what to do right now, because I was truly on a roll once I figured things out in Blender... Does it have anything to do with an unknown version compatibility issue I'm not aware of? I'm quite stumped Blender just upped and choked like it did when it's been fine before...

ETA: And as soon as it stops working, it goes on like nothing else ever happened... Don't worry about the above anymore. Sorry for the randomness. :D

Thank you so much for this BobCatBen, never in a million years did I think someone be nice enough to share something like this, as always I'm blown away by the generosity of the people here at MTS2.

I've just started tinkering with Blender, it's really easy and there are a lot of online tutorial support for it. I think I had an easier time learning this than with Photoshop, go figure.

I hope I could use something like this in the near future.

Adele, a simple tutorial for us noobs please?

How do I put scripts in Blender? I've looked everywhere for the answer. I've done what they said, but nothing shows up. T_T