Trouble importing new models from blender.

[Medical Heroin]

Hey guys,I bought leadwerks yesterday and I encountered a problem when trying to import new .mdl files from blender. At first I had looked up a blender file for a rock, found one, used the leadwerks converter to convert it to an mdl file, and placed it in my models folder. Upon trying to add this model in using the vegetation tool, I created the rocks but once I got close to them,they disappeared and blue beams/beacons appeared around the map. This also happened when trying to add a custom model from blender i created. Any idea what causes this issue or how to resolve it? Thanks!

 

EDIT: this only happens while trying to add rocks with vegetation

[AggrorJorn]

Hi there and welcome to Leadwerks.

 

For painting vegetation and rocks in the editor you require certain shaders to be set. 

• leaves the leaves.shader
• rocks require the groundrocks.shader.

If you post a screenshot of your rocks material file (and specifically the shader tab) we can see if everything is correct there.

You also might need to delete the existing generated billboards for the rocks, if you apply new shaders.

[Medical Heroin]

8 hours ago, AggrorJorn said:

Hi there and welcome to Leadwerks.

 

For painting vegetation and rocks in the editor you require certain shaders to be set. 

• leaves the leaves.shader
• rocks require the groundrocks.shader.

If you post a screenshot of your rocks material file (and specifically the shader tab) we can see if everything is correct there.

You also might need to delete the existing generated billboards for the rocks, if you apply new shaders.

That makes sense. How do I apply these shaders exactly?

[AggrorJorn]

Shaders are set via materials. So look for your vegetation material and go to its shader tab.

[macklebee]

42 minutes ago, Medical Heroin said:

That makes sense. How do I apply these shaders exactly?

https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=Tutorials_Editor_Materials

 

and as for the strange artifacts:

 

[Medical Heroin]

12 minutes ago, macklebee said:

https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=Tutorials_Editor_Materials

 

and as for the strange artifacts:

 

 

30 minutes ago, AggrorJorn said:

Shaders are set via materials. So look for your vegetation material and go to its shader tab.

Thank you both so much! I fell very welcomed and supported here

[AggrorJorn]

Since this question comes up quite often and the official documentation is lacking, a quick tutorial:

 

[Medical Heroin]

26 minutes ago, AggrorJorn said:

Since this question comes up quite often and the official documentation is lacking, a quick tutorial:

 

Helped alot! I really appreciate all your tutorials btw

edit: one last thing, I can't locate the rock_dot1 for the textures tab, is this included in leadwerks?

[gamecreator]

Great vid Jorn!  Thank you!

Can someone confirm or correct that the first two shaders are always model shaders from the Model folder and the last two are always vegetation shaders from the Vegetation folder?  In other words, is there any reason you would use a shader from the vegetation folder in the top two or the Model folder in the bottom two?

Also, is there any negative consequence to having a material which has vegetation shaders but is also used as a non-vegetation prop (like a very specifically placed rock by a wall)?

[AggrorJorn]

I think the official documentation could use an upgrade regarding the usage of the deafult shaders. The information is quite scattered or not existing atm. You have to try out the examples and see what the official leadwerk maps/assest use.