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From: will atkin <william_atkin@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: soft and tmds
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:54:09 +0000
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Thanks for the help...

I'll keep this in mind for the future..  I actually found a function in soft
that merges separate polygonal objects into one while keeping all texture and
material information.

It made life alot easier!!

Will

Tom wrote:

> Will Atkin wrote:
> >
> > Hey all..
> >
> > having slight troubles exporting tmds from softimage to the yaroze..
> >
> > The thing is I'm using a multiple object model.  You know a character
> > with separate legs and arms.  As I understand it you can save all the
> > objects in one tmd file and call it as that file.  Whenever I load my
> > game it displays as the hip object and nothing else, and the wierd thing
> > is that I know all the information is there, becuase when I import the
> > tmd file back into soft to see whats going on.. all the objects are
> > there!  Can't figure it out..
> >
> > anyone have any ideas??
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Will
>
> When you call GsLinkObject4(), there's a parameter in that tells the
> Yaroze which object in the TMD to link to the GsDOBJ2 structure. Most of
> the time this is set to 0 as (from what I can tell) most TMDs only
> contain one object but if you set it to 3, say, you can link the fourth
> model in the TMD. I've done this before, but only in a dynamic TMD that
> I've created myself. Failing this, check the 'nobj' variable in the TMD
> header (try using Rob Swan's dynaimc TMD creation lib) and see what
> value this is set to as it's (supposed to) hold how many objects are in
> the TMD file.
>
> I hope this helps as this is all from memory, the structure and function
> names might be different, but the priciple should be sound ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Tom