[Papervision3D] ShadedMaterials not working with Collada model

Thu Jul 9 08:17:31 PDT 2009

>> sweeet jebus where did the blender hate come from.
>>Sounds like a lot of, 'its too hard and I'm too lazy, me want pretty icons'\
>>Hugs maya

For me it’s not laziness anyway, I came from a job where I had and used Maya 6 (loved Maya despite some UI quirks and hidden-menus) to a job where I didn’t, but tried Blender – after a lot of attempts, I couldn’t figure out how to do the simplest things in Blender either and the documentation sucked (at least at the time, haven’t looked at it in a year or so).  I gave up on it and am using Swft3D meanwhile, but would like to give Blender a second chance if I could figure out the workflow.  I would like to get good at Blender someday, if you have any good tutorial links, please post them.

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From: papervision3d-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:papervision3d-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf Of John Brookes
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [Papervision3D] ShadedMaterials not working with Collada model

sweeet jebus where did the blender hate come from.

Sounds like a lot of, 'its too hard and I'm too lazy, me want pretty icons'

Hugs maya :p

2009/7/9 <nospam at therossman.org>

I needed to model something real quick one time, but the only software I
could find at the time that was free was Blender.  I knew it was gonna be
ugly when it prompted me to install Python.
As a guy who has only ever really used 3DS Max, after I launched Blender I
was lost.  Couldn't do even the simplest of things.  I gave up in short
order and ended up using 3DS Max 2010 trial version.

I guess that probably says more about me, than about Blender  :-/

Cheers,
mark

>
> Ugh, I hate Blender. I hear a lot of good things about it, but it has one
> of
> the worst user interfaces I have ever seen. It's like being transported
> back
> to the 80's when your computer had a C:> prompt and you had to know what
> to
> type to get it to do anything. Maybe if I could find some good tutorials,
> I'd change my mind.
>
> Dan,
> Your model did look a little weird to me. Did you move individual vertices
> around to get that shape? Try making an object by simply combining a few
> primitives like a cylinder and some cubes. Add your textures. Don't move
> any
> edges or vertices and then save the KMZ. Unzip it and try to import that
> Collada. I have had good luck with Sketchup collada files. I can send you
> one that I know will import correctly if you need it.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
>
> John Brookes-2 wrote:
>>
>> I know nothing about ketchup if I had to use free I'd go with blender.
>>
>>
>> 2009/7/8 Dan <dan_maillists at danwashere.com>
>>
>>>  nope, that didn't make any difference.
>>>
>>> I thought the DAE might be at fault, but I wouldn't know where to start
>>> looking to fix that.
>>>
>>> I'm using Google Sketchup (free version) to produce the .dae files -
>>> are
>>> there any known issues to look out for there? I'm very new to making 3D
>>> models too, so I guess I might have made some error when building it?
>>>
>>>
>>> John Brookes wrote:
>>>
>>> Sometimes problems acn be fixed by expanding out
>>> var fsm: FlatShader = new FlatShader(light, 0xFFFFFF, 0x555555)
>>> shadedMaterial = new ShadedMaterial(movieMaterial, fsm);
>>> Although I didn't try with a moviematerial I used a bitmapmaterial.
>>>
>>> I think there's also something wrong with that dae file. Just tried
>>> another
>>> dae and that works ok.
>>>
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