[Tutorial] Modeling, texturing and importing models into Sins...

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Hi this tutorial is going to focus on everything that was left out from the documentations in the Forge tools provided by sins and also will include helpful tricks.

List of things covered

 What you need first…

 Modeling, the lost tutorial

 Texturing and you

 ConvertXSI and you

 Oh, S*** not good…And you. (How to easily preview your model in Sins, model too small, ship flies sideways, textures not showing up, bugs and problems)

Thanks to CanadaMan777, ManShooter, cptkeys for  the help. IF you need any help or confused just aim me at soviet911, and i will try to help as much as i can.


Download link to The Tutorial its in .doc format so those who are using open office can still open this.
IF you want to modify or improve the tutorial below, please do so, and PM with the link to it, preferably on file front since they don't take down files. Or you can AIM me and send it that way also.
Tutorial v1.1

P.S post any mistakes or suggestion here, or just pm me. thanks.
Version 1.1 is up, fixed spelling confusion and wording problem,s add some more info links and  so on thanks to cptkeyes for testing.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
what you mean you cant open the file, its a Word document, download OpenOffice if u dont have Word it should be able to open the file.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
This is great. All I can say is, Kryo, come pin this! Anyways, the mod has one thing I prefer it did not... bad grammer... I hate to be the English teacher here, but I'm obsessive compulsive, so every typo bugs me...If it is alright with you, I would like to go through it and fix the typos as well as adding an index and some hyperlinks so that someone can just skip to the section they want...


Oh, and ermm... who do you have as your background?.?.?... :NOTSURE: 
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
that was provided by candaman777, and yes if you decided to modfiy or improve up on it, please do so, i will apreciate it as much, and obviously credit will be given. I dont realy have that much time right now, need to fix my car, college and working on tb skin, still need to start that, so if you want to go ahead, and then you can send it to me and i will host it through file front, unless you want to. doesnt matter to me as long as it help ppl out. so yehh.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Oh, and ermm... who do you have as your background?.?.?...  


Have you seriously not heard of the berries and cream lad?
Berries and Cream
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

CanadaMan, you should lose karma for that link.   8(|

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SemazRalan, reply 10
CanadaMan, you should lose karma for that link.  

If anything I should get at LEAST +5 for that :grin:

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

I had the misfortune of actually seeing that commercial on TV. What I would give to erase that from my mind...

 

:fox:

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

so who has the SINS mesh to xsi tool?  3d Converter doesn't do it.  What can?

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

Can anyone helpp me on this one. It may look stupid, but after the first 2 tutorials by Nuesis, I don't know where the forger tool is, and it is the first step in the tutorial... And same as SemazRalan, is there a tool to import .mesh files into XSI?

Thanks a lot :D

Cygnus

 

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

someone should FRAPS/youtube a step by step 4 the nublets

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

I dont have Word or Office. So I cant see the pics. However I got a question about the dotXSIconverter. Using the cmd does not seem to respond to me my workstuff like all my 3d tools and stuff is located in my E: drive. When I use the cmd and do cd E:\Softimage\XSI_6_Mod_Tool\Application\Plugins it doesn't do anything. If I do cd C:\ then it returns to C:\> just fine, but it wont go to E:\.

So we are converting XSI to mesh, how about ascii?

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

I'll have a look at it, I am have recently been modelling in other games, nice to get a change.

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting derenek, reply 16
someone should FRAPS/youtube a step by step 4 the nublets

I 2nd that though i am new i do have several hundred models to convert  if i can figure out the tricks of the trade.

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

I'm having a small problem. Everytime I import my brand new model into Sins, it's so small you can hardly see it, and I've tried rescaling it the way it explans in the tutoural, but it's just not working!

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting dewing12, reply 20
I'm having a small problem. Everytime I import my brand new model into Sins, it's so small you can hardly see it, and I've tried rescaling it the way it explans in the tutoural, but it's just not working!

I've had that problem before. It seems that XSI doesn't actually resize the model when you click the resize tool, you need to try it in another 3D program.

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

There's a handy tool I found on the forums that helps you resize your models... now I’m just having some problems with the textures and colors when they are displayed in sins. My models are always displayed as what ever color the team color is.

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

If i remember correctly there is 3 texture maps (dds)  for each ship One is the bump map  {-nm}  {-da} seems to be the team color map and the {-cl} looks like its the normal texture map . I think you need to create another map and rename it simmler to the stock maps.  I am think im wrong on this but had to throw it out to confuse and annoy all:d   

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

It's all good, actually it was the alpha channel that was messing me up, but that problem is fixed.

Now I just need to change the orientation on one of my structure models, it's laying horizontal, I need make it vertical.

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

Can I import my models that I've already made in Maya, over to XSI, or do I have to build them all over again?