Blender Tutorial!

jazzKat · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 1581 Location: United Kingdom

Make sure you have an 'Action' applied to the Armature.

- Select Armature and go into POSE mode (Ctrl+TAB)
- Select all
- Press 'I' and select "LocRotScale" (this creates 'keyframes' needed)
- Shift+F12 to change to Action window to check (each bone should have an entry there and a yellow dot (Shift+F5 to go back to 3D view)
- Select MESH *then* Armature
- export.
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GiaWeathervane · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 79 Location: Canada

Could there be another problem? I'm still getting the same error message after doing what you said.

jazzKat · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 1581 Location: United Kingdom

Which version of Blender are you using? And once you add the action (and keyframes for each bone) are you making sure to select the mesh *1st* and then the armature before exporting?
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GiaWeathervane · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 79 Location: Canada

I'm using Blender 2.45 and yes I'm selecting the mesh and then the armature.

jazzKat · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 1581 Location: United Kingdom

hmmm.. could be related to Python. Have you got Python 2.5.x installed?

http://www.python.org
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xXVictorJGanstaXx · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Puerto Rico

plssssss translate to spanish..pls pls plsssss...I have Blender 2.48, help me pls ^^. La novata **[/b]
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Eccentrixx · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 298 Location: USA - PA

I try exporting to Cal3D but there is no option for that. Am I doing something wrong?

[Edit] Nevermind. Figured out how to export. It still does not export .xmf though. It only exports .xsf and .cfg. I tried drawing a UV image like on the first page of this topic and it didn't work. It said "Error: Active object is not a mesh". It is a mesh. It is a chair I made. Why does it say this?
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xJonnx · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 1578 Location: USA - PA

Did you have the mesh and the armature selected when you exported? What version of Blender are you using? There have been a lot of advances and tools created for Blender to IMVU since this was written.
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Eccentrixx · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 298 Location: USA - PA

I have version 2.49. I tried selecting the armature like it said in the earlier posts. Nothing happened when I tried selecting it though. I went into the Outliner view and selected everything that way. Would that be the same thing?
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xJonnx · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 1578 Location: USA - PA

Personally I use 2.45.

To export, select them mesh first, then the armature. Not sure if this is where the problem lies or not. I have not read through this tutorial in over 2 years.

If you are going to use 2.49, I would recommend joining This Group. All the tools necessary for using it are in there.

If you want to use 2.45, Here is a tutorial on how to get a simple cube to IMVU.
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Eccentrixx · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 298 Location: USA - PA

I'll check both of these out. See which one works better. I am absolutely clueless and dumber than dumb when it comes to modeling. I'm lucky I got something as decent as I did to turn out after play with a tutorial online lol.
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i2omance · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 37 Location: Thailand

Nice tips!! Thanks 5/5
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Cinnettar_disabled_401989 · Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 326 Location: Turkey

thanks for informations

ChelseaRoze · Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 2 Location: USA - MI

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OSMAN_disabled_49908094 · Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Turkey

thank u