#Medieval total war 1 skeletons how to#
#Medieval total war 1 skeletons update#

if you have a soldier with more than the 26 basic/default bones, let's take as example the archers with animated bowstrings, it will just keep on using its dumb premade human skeleton no matter what.

For human bodies it uses a premade human skeleton with 26 bones. He is completely unaware of the real bones (count and names) belonging to the model itself because it doesn't even try to read that kind of data from the MESH. if it recognizes the model as a horse, it gives him the horse's premade skeleton.

If it recognizes the model as a siege engine, it gives him the siege engine's premade skeleton.

#Medieval total war 1 skeletons how to#

Very few people know how to work with animations/skeletons, having to learn this just to get the basic skeleton files is a point down for this tool.Do you know what GOAT does with skeletons, at least? GOAT does nothing except using a template of 3 or 4 premade skeletons. I have to agree with this, it's the only thing I don't like about this tool, if it would also build the skeleton like GOAT it would be perfect. all it can do is telling you whether you choose a good skeleton or not. I can't do this kind of analysis with my tool. Normally, if they are around 1 Kb, they are shifting data and they can't be used during the rebuilding process. It's up to you to recognize the right skeletons. Since my unit is using a pike as primary weapon, I select MTW2_Pike (not MTW2_Pike_Primary, since it's the 'animated skeleton', it's very small and contains only joints shifting data). I can still see all of the unpacked skeletons from there (MTW2_Mace, MTW2_Mace_Primary, MTW2_Spear. When asked if I want to rebuild its skeleton I answer YES and the prompt takes me to the folder I used to unpack the skeletons.dat file. I select the MESH I want to convert to MS3D (hussars_sh in my case). ) into the directory where the file itself was located.Дў) I click on 'MESH to MS3D' with 'Rebuild Skeletons' option set to ON. The file is unpacked correctly as I can see many extensionless files (MTW2_Mace, MTW2_Spear. I've posted on their thread but so far, nobody has answered.ДЎ) I unpack skeletons.dat with my tool ('Unpack DAT' button). I don't understand how to use it actually.

#Medieval total war 1 skeletons update#

I suspected XIDX first as I couldn't use the update made by Europa Barbarorum Team. But when I use your tool (rebuilding the skeleton), when the tool asks me to choose the file, an error message appears and says that the file is invalid. Until now, I was using GOAT but as your tool seems better, why not using only that one? Unfortunately, I can't make the conversion and see the skeleton unless I rebuild it (and if I'm right).ДЇollowing the point 4) of your Tutorials (1st post), it is mentioned to use XIDX to unpack the file 'skeletons.dat'.

The purpose is to make the appropriate unit card for the new units that we're adding to SSHIP. But I'd like to see the skeleton as well. why are you using XIDX if my tool is implementing an unpacker for anims and skeletons since 0.4?Basically, I'm trying to use your tool to convert mesh files to ms3d files. mesh your tool will apply the correct bounding sphere values?Д¬an you describe me steb by step what you are doing please?ДЄlso. So how does it work, when converting from. and everybody will be able to improve the collision of their custom units.Edit: Ok, I found most answers in the OP now. Now, with the next version of the tool, this problem is no more. They are probably enough to create a correct collision area, but they are totally unrelated to the real mesh itself since normally when you are creating a new pikemen unit, for example, you copy and past the bounding sphere values from another similar pikemen unit. I can say for sure that 99,9% of the custom models made by M2TW community have wrong bounding spheres. They have multiple functions in the M2TW engine:ДЎ) They are used by soldiers to know when they are close to an enemy and they can hit him.Дў) They are used for collision calculations.ДЈ) They are used as a deceleration area for charges (charging speed is reduced when soldiers enters a bounding sphere of an enemy. BTW, fixing various bugs I discovered how to calculate bounding spheres for the M2TW meshes.Д«ounding spheres are built using the values you can find in the model comments: