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Odb718

Dec 10 2004, 06:47 AM

QUOTE (gasclown @ Dec 9 2004, 06:18 AM)

i know this has gotta be really simple but i cant work out how to 'join' the objects without seeing a seam

anyone know? - im using max 7

UUuuuhhh, I know how in Lightwave...
Try moving some points around till you smooth it out.

ok let me try to describe what Id do in light wave. Highlight the center ring of points and bust out a scale/size type of tool. shink the ring from the center untill it looks smooth.

Another way would be to delete the two rings of pollygons around the seam. then highlight the two rings of points and shrink them on the Y axis to 0%... pulling them together on the Y axis. merge the points and it should be fine.

BUT if those two ways dont work.
Like above delete the two rings around the seam. then copy either side's inside ring of points. Move the unattached points to the Y axis and hand make the pollygons.

^^^ If that way still doesnt work, then that's just one more reason for me to say 3DS max sucks.

By the way to fix that prob in light wave would be tab, ctrl+d.

Basically what PID would do.

gasclown

Dec 10 2004, 02:15 PM

cheers guys - yep in max its attatch and weld

here's the horse fully flogged:

blue,green,orange,yellow,pink purple,red,silver.

bring on uix i say

gasclown

Dec 11 2004, 03:13 AM

they^ all look like this (accept different

):

gasclown

Dec 12 2004, 02:32 AM

SEHF

Dec 12 2004, 03:47 AM

That's awesome how you got the cellwall to have corners with a new cell wall model...

Or is that just a trick of the texture? Nah!!! Not from gasclown...

I hope!

SEHF

Dec 12 2004, 03:48 AM

By the way, what model is inside the orb?

Pic?

gasclown

Dec 12 2004, 03:57 AM

its new cellwall model - ive been trying to do this for a long time so im pretty happy thanks agian UIXtool!!

and the orb model is a cube cellwall - kinda hard to get a decent screen but here the render:

user posted image

gasclown

Dec 13 2004, 01:18 AM

all your cubewall are belong to gas

(Looks like i ve actually found a use for celwall shenanigans - it looks great with the cubewall

)

gasclown

Dec 14 2004, 09:32 AM

vintster

Dec 14 2004, 08:58 PM

WHOA! Now thats HOT! Nice work gasclown! Have you tried modeling any polygon solids, a dodecahedron would look cool!

gasclown

Dec 14 2004, 09:47 PM

hi, yeh ive tried all the appropriate primitives and a few others ;/ and once there mapped and put it into the dash most of em look shitty. with the cellwall, in my opinion, less is definately more.

problem with the dodech is that once tiled in dash you can barely see the sides.

oh, and vinster, ive borrowed and barstardized on some of yr old bg code for my skins so

to you!

gas

la7eralus

Dec 15 2004, 12:06 PM

Ok, got the orb ring workin in the hard drive menu...however im haveing a hard time getting it centered appropriately behind the orb.

Heres my code from default2.xap - Music_PlayEdit2.xip

CODE

DEF podsupport_ring Transform
{
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
//name "EggGlowPulse"
//name "MenuCell"
//name "Black80"
name "ReflectSurface"
}
texture ImageTexture
{
//alpha true
url "blusteel.xbx"
//url "steel.xbx"
}
}
geometry DEF podsupport_ring-FACES Mesh { URL "podsupport_ring-FACES.xm" }
//geometry DEF podsupport_ring-FACES Mesh { URL "MU_L3_podsupport_04-FACES.xm" }
}
]
rotation -0.075560 0.704300 0.705900 -2.989000
scale 0.074700 0.074700 0.074700
scaleOrientation 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
//translation 1.0 1.5 0.0
translation 1.372000025 1.378250025 0.0
}

And of course, the screenie:
user posted image

Any help is, as always, greatly appreciated

gasclown

Dec 15 2004, 09:42 PM

hey la7, Have you tried it by commenting out the rotation values?

also a good trick when yr having trouble positioning something is to zero out its axis position in a 3d prog then convert back to xm and drop it in. a lot of the dash elements are off centre and centring will make yr job easier

good luck

la7eralus

Dec 15 2004, 10:14 PM

thx, i talked to acid in the channel LATE last night and he reccommended the same thing, so i tried it out and this was the result:

user posted image

and

SEHF

Dec 16 2004, 01:47 AM

Nice Dash! Some french dude posted another sick mod of THC, eventhough it could be illegal, but damn its nice!!!

vintster

Dec 22 2004, 07:49 AM

QUOTE(gasclown @ Dec 14 2004, 03:50 PM)

hi, yeh ive tried all the appropriate primitives and a few others ;/ and once there mapped and put it into the dash most of em look shitty. with the cellwall, in my opinion, less is definately more.

problem with the dodech is that once tiled in dash you can barely see the sides.

oh, and vinster, ive borrowed and barstardized on some of yr old bg code for my skins so

to you!

gas

Yeah, I bet anything much more spherical than a box

would lose its definition since you really only looking at a small portion of the entire model.

And glad to hear someone is making some use out of those old code snippets. I haven't really modified any code since JB announced XDN before UIX. Got kinda burned out and just wanted to play some games for a while. Once UIX comes out, I might try my hand at it again.

Anyways, keep up the awesome work!

dcdrummerkid09

Jan 7 2005, 01:00 AM

how do you get the skin things to your xbox from you computer after you download the to the comp and how to you take the outside plastic skin thing off of it??

Japawaiian

Feb 3 2005, 01:46 PM

I have a Normal X-box Dashboard skin i want to put on my xbox, how do i do that???

gasclown

Feb 3 2005, 03:23 PM

ok - drummerkid - you posted quite some time ago - hopefully by now youve figured out some of the basics - hehe.

Japawaiian - get UIX - problem solved. for help pm drummerkid

SOLO-X

Feb 22 2005, 06:19 PM

Where can I get these skins? I've been to allxboxskins and there are only a few. Will the lite ones work with the original THC dash?

la7eralus

Feb 23 2005, 12:01 AM

If your talking about the screens for my dash, its alot more than a skin. You would need the multiple xips making up the interface.

SOLO-X

Feb 23 2005, 06:33 PM

OK, Let me rephrase that "Where can I get the files at so I can inject them and have the newly skinned dashboards?"

la7eralus

Feb 24 2005, 03:11 AM

QUOTE(SOLO-X @ Feb 23 2005, 05:39 PM)

OK, Let me rephrase that "Where can I get the files at so I can inject them and have the newly skinned dashboards?"

By im'ing me on aim or msn or irc by the name i currently use.

MoniXnoob

Jun 15 2005, 10:49 PM

sry i didnt specify the cool honey comb looking 1

QUOTE(gasclown @ Dec 8 2004, 12:58 AM)

ok, been getting a few pms bout this so here you go:

grab this: the .xm

then paste this:

CODE

DEF MU_L3_musicpod2 Transform
{
children
[
Spinner
{
rpm 10
axis 6 6 6
children
[
Shape
{
/* appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "ReflectSurface"
}
texture ImageTexture { url "texture.xbx" }
} */
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "EggGlowPulse"
}

}
geometry Mesh { url "gasorb.xm" }
}
]
}

]
rotation -0.993700 -0.088440 0.068970 -1.576000
//scale 0.780000 0.780000 0.780000
scale 0.0058 0.0058 0.0058
scaleOrientation 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
translation -46.880001 55.130001 -205.000000
}

above "DEF MU_L3_musicpod Transform" in musicplayedit.xip/default2.xap:

then comment out this whole section (or delete it) like this:

CODE

/*
DEF MU_L3_musicpod Transform
{
children
[
Spinner
{
rpm 7.75
axis 0 2 2
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "InnerWall_01"
}
texture ImageTexture
{
alpha true
url "Morbcellwall.bmp"
}
}
geometry Mesh { url "MOrbCell-FACES.xm" }
}
]
}
Spinner
{
rpm 7.75
axis 2 2 0
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "InnerWall_01"
}
texture ImageTexture
{
alpha true
url "Morbcellwall.bmp"
}
}
geometry Mesh { url "MOrbCell-FACES.xm" }
}
]
}
Spinner
{
rpm 7.75
axis 2 0 2
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "InnerWall_01"
}
texture ImageTexture
{
alpha true
url "Morbcellwall.bmp"
}
}
geometry Mesh { url "MOrbCell-FACES.xm" }
}
]
}

Waver
{
rpm 7.75
//axis 0 2 0
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "InnerWall_01"
}
texture ImageTexture
{
alpha true
url "Morbcellwall.bmp"
}
}
geometry Mesh { url "MOrbCell-FACES.xm" }
}
]
}
]
rotation -0.993700 -0.088440 0.068970 -1.576000
scale 0.780000 0.780000 0.780000
scaleOrientation 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
translation -46.880001 55.130001 -205.000000
} */
/*
DEF MU_L3_musicpod Transform
{
children
[
Shape
{
appearance Appearance
{
material MaxMaterial
{
name "GameEgg"
}
}
geometry Sphere
{
radius 5.786000
}
}
]
rotation -1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 -1.571000
scale 0.124700 0.124700 0.124700
translation -46.880001 55.130001 -205.000000
}
*/

and insert gasorb.xm from the dl - voila!!
looks like this:
user posted image

gasclown

Oct 4 2005, 11:38 PM

hehe, been a lotta braincells since i did anything with lite but customed this for a mate who seemingly has a lot of trouble refreshing menus in UIX lol. Its pm3 (sorta) for lite. has switchable bg's including the actual pm3 bg and etc and blah blah. no dl for this, if you really want it hit me up in the chan. Thanks to merde whose xbx's i robbed and choke who made the original image files.

user posted image

flavor

May 26 2007, 08:46 PM

Anyone still active with thclite skinning?

I'm using a nice combination from parts of my skins and some parts from gasclown for almost two years now.
But there's a nice ASE exporter for Maya around that does not mess up the models so much...maybe I'll give it a try.
So If you use Maya you might want to try that out.

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/pl...xport/3721.html

flavor

Jul 9 2007, 12:03 AM

Huumm guess you're all happy with your crappy 360's flash dashboard thingy with halo2 skin.