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Its ok Josh, I've been working intensely with Macklebee and he has taught me many things about the workflow of Leadwerks. I am going to start using the tools he uses, that way everything will look like it should. One of the things he taught me last night was the fact that if you use the model shrink program in the tools section of your site your model will lose all its animation. (Just another example of what converters do to artist) you know I love you, so make it happen an quit whining Always~ Vickie

Thanks Clackdor ! I'll play with it and see if I can get it to work. I really liked your video too! That's what I am trying to do~ Always~

The Crew, I'm currently working on character creation and animation, wish me luck

Fair enough Josh, but what I am getting when I use a workflow where I have to go through a bunch of model conversion is a "grainy" look to the skins and texture misplacement. These models you are looking at in this picture look "Much" better then than what you see here. I need a solution.

I see it, thanks Pixel!, I was all excited for a min, I though LW supported Fbx natively and I was just finding out, LOL oh well

I read on the site that Leadwerks support .Fbx format from Autodesk software, is that in 2.5 or that a 3.0 feature? If 2.5 supports Fbx the is there anything special I have to do to get my models into Leadwerks? Thanks for any info~ Always~

Thanks Macklebee, I'll use the lua script. Always~

Are the water plane tools still part of the Leadwerks engine? if so, how do you get to them now? Thanks~

Slayer! Wow, I haven't seen you around in a while, probably because you are using your real name now LOL! Cool to see you again Chris, and thanks for the nice comments. I hope to make something really cool with this engine and for the first time in a LONG time I have no obligations with any other companies so I can do my own thing for a change. Can't wait to see what you come up with! Always~

That is Awesome Rick! You are so far ahead of me with this engine (I'm so Jealous!) Always~

Thats useful! LOL! Any forecast when the new version will be ready? I'll beta test it even, if you want. Or if there is anything I can do to help let me know! With smoothing groups there will be so much more we can do with your modeler Josh, I can't wait! Always~ Vickie

Hi Josh, Hey we need to be able to make Balls in the editor, we have the other basic shapes just not the Ball. Is is possible to add Ball creation to 3DWS?

The Shadows in Leardwerks are amazing, and not only that, I didn't lose any speed at all when I max out the detail level! I also made some flowers today. I plan on making some vines next that will run down the sides of the buildings. My next programming task will be to set up an animated character, Josh made a great tutorial so I plan on following that and see it I can get it to work. Always~

Never-mind, I found the model re-sizer tool in the tools section of the Leadwerks site! This thing works great! WooHoo!

I've upgraded to the new 2.5 version of Leadwerks and now the model re-size button is missing! How are you guys re-sizing your models now? Why did Josh take that feature out, it was awesome? Always~

ok the file is 12mb zipped up, I have it in a .rar format, can you open those or do you need a zip?

Metatron you are Awesome! Let me zip it up and email it to you! I will need an email address you can receive large files too. Can you post that for me or email it to me at vickie.eagle@gmail.com ? Always~

I want to use my witch model as the main character in my game and I know that many of you have already built projects like this so if you have any tips or code sample or even a "How too" would be MOST appreciated! Thanks everyone! Always~

Thanks Josh! I needed this too Always~

Thank you Flachdrache, that's very cool of you! Right now I'm using a program called "CrazyBump" to make my normal maps with and it works great, I set the specular up really high so I could see what it looks like in the game. I would be happy to have your help though, so I'll send you the maps and see what you do with them. Always~

Good to Hear Josh, that's pretty scary!

I'm totally with you on that YouGrove, and thanks for the tips! I like playing with the settings LOL! Ok, here is the first actor I was able to get formatted correctly and load into the engine. Next I'm going to work on making this actor model the main character and replace the default machine gun guy and have my witch running around instead. Please feel free to give me any advice that would help me do that! Always~

hmmm... I guess it is possible to go overboard on the bump mapping, LOL! Always~

Yes its my model, and I have been working on his game for a long time (its my pet project) and in the mean time I do a lot of other stuff. This project is something that has a lot of sentimental value to me and I spend time looking for an engine that will handle it. I have tried 3Drad, Torque, Realmcrafter, Unity and VGore to mention a few and none of them would do what I wanted. I was very happy to see Leadwerks come along but it took me two years of intense C++ college classes to get to a point where I can even use this engine at a level that would do it Justice. Now I'm in the process of porting my models into it but with all the amazing features this engine has I almost want to start over because now (at last) I can do SO much more. Always~

Thats Awesome Cassius! Thanks for the info, feel free to share any other cool tips like that you might have as well! Always~