#meshmodding woes

[ankoku-jin]

This render I'm working on is like to kill me, mostly because of v-neck Vergil's stupid floating head, lol. Posing his head goes something like this:

Make a tiny change to his pose in XPS

Export as OBJ

Import into Blender

Move his goddamned floating head into place

Export as OBJ again

Delete the previous failed attempt from the DAZ scene

Import new OBJ into DAZ to check position

Curse wildly, weep, then go back to Step 1 and repeat for the next tiny adjustment

It'll all be worth it when the render is done in a day or two, tho. xD I'm sure there's a better way, but the meshmod won't line up no matter what I try and this is the only way I can think of to do this ^^;;

[ankoku-jin]

Ugh gods material assignment issues in Blender 2.49. Just kill me now. x_x

(I did get the meshes joined up so his head doesn't swivel oddly, and then separated them so that XPS wouldn't cry about the multiple materials... but I'm still getting multiple materials warnings and related issues, and I can't figure out why. ~_~ I should probably just delete the materials in the problem areas and assign them from scratch.)

The hilarious part is that this doesn't actually matter for the purposes of my render, because I export him as a .obj and then apply textures in DAZ, so the texture info is lost anyway, and neither DAZ nor Blender cries about multiple materials anyway. I'm just annoyed because his textures are off in XPS. ;P

[ankoku-jin]

OK this is seriously getting old... Blender 2.49 is now crashing whenever I select a single fucking bone in Edit Mode on this model.

Wooo open-source

Wooo tools that depend on old-ass legacy fucking software

Wooo in general

[ankoku-jin]

fUCKING BLENDER STOP CRASHING ON ME

That is all.

[zomgdmc]

whoppingspider said: 

o.o this would be my fault because of the ask thingy? ;-;

I've actually been thinking about it for a while. I'm gonna run out of screenshots eventually, and I've been thinking about doing some stuff in XNALara instead. Also, some of the things I want to write up would be super-hilarious if you could actually see J making faces. (Or her violent revenge fantasies.) XD

I could always take webcam caps of me making faces (I'm good at making ridiculous faces), but I like to have my images be consistent. On the bright side, I can afford to commission someone... because I am teh s uck at meshmodding. (Although I guess that's a good incentive to learn.)