RA3 Flak troopers mine is always visible

Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

So I tried to import the Flaktrooper from RA3, not so hard except the Flaktroopers secondary weapon is always visible in it's unanimated state!

I have only used the primary weapon animations, has I have no interest in the mine ability, but this problem is too visible to ignore.

Any ideas? Confused

Golan · Flamethrower **Joined**: 21 Nov 2007

If you extracted it as a W3X you can manually hide the mesh. Just edit the W3X file with a texteditor, look for the correct W3DMesh block and set the Hidden attribute to true (you might have to add it first).

Code:

[...]
</W3DCollisionBox>
<W3DMesh id="GVDISR_SKN.WEAPONA_DIS01" Hidden="true" GeometryType="Normal" SortLevel="1">
<BoundingBox>
[...]

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Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

Golan wrote:

If you extracted it as a W3X you can manually hide the mesh. Just edit the W3X file with a texteditor, look for the correct W3DMesh block and set the Hidden attribute to true (you might have to add it first).

Code:

[...]
</W3DCollisionBox>
<W3DMesh>
<BoundingBox>
[...]

The Trooper, mine and Flak launcher all one skinned mesh!

Ju-Jin · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject:

Madin wrote:

Golan wrote:

...

The Trooper, mine and Flak launcher all one skinned mesh!

no. mesh != model

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Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

I am assuming that the mine is probably attached to the 'PROPS02' bone.
It is part of the 'SUANTIVEHICLEINFANTRY_SKN.FLAKTROOPER'.

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Scorched Earth · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:23 am Post subject:

Madin wrote:

I am assuming that the mine is probably attached to the 'PROPS02' bone.
It is part of the 'SUANTIVEHICLEINFANTRY_SKN.FLAKTROOPER'.

I couldn't help but notice, it looks as if he's got a real sour candy in his mouth. Laughing

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gufu · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:17 am Post subject:

For some reason he reminds me of Quake playermodels.

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Stygs · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:02 pm Post subject:

If the mine and the trooper are part of the same mesh, then there nothing you can do (exept maybe move the bone so its allways underground).
And going by the number of draw calls on the picture, this seems to be the case.

However, I am wondering if there is the same problem in vanilla RA3.

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Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

Stygs wrote:

If the mine and the trooper are part of the same mesh, then there nothing you can do (except maybe move the bone so its always underground).
And going by the number of draw calls on the picture, this seems to be the case.

However, I am wondering if there is the same problem in vanilla RA3.

No RA3 does not have the same problem, that's what gets me.
I tried to see if I could work out how it was done.
There is a small difference to the 'InfantryFX' shader in RA3 vs the C&C3 version.

Fascinating has this problem is for me, I decided to edit the model in Max, then rebind it to the GDI Missile man skeleton.

Stygs · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:45 pm Post subject:

I think I figured the problem out:

Looks like the bone for the mine (Props02) has a visbility setting that normaly hides the mine.

Which means that even if trough the whole model is one single mehs, some verticles (the mine) can be hidden while the others (the soldier) will not be affected.
Seems like this a new addition for RA3 because it never worked like that before (in CNC3, you can only hide whole meshs).

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Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

Nice detective work!
So we can finally close the chapter on this little saga.

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