Thank you all for your information!
Hello and thank you all for your information!
That was a great help.
In between I found a nice description how to get mesh out of gmax into an obj-data-format. For all who are interested in – here is the link:
https://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/gmax/exporting-meshes-as-obj-models.php
Eventually it is all about getting PBR textures onto my track and bridge assets, which I already created in gmax. And even for these assets the gravel part will be most important, as I want to but PBR textures onto the gravel to make them look like the PBR ground texture next to the tracks. So for the first time I will not have to deal with attachment points and so on.
Perhaps I will be looking also to use PBR textures for other assets but even that will be probably all about an update of assets been already created in gmax.
Also I tried to create mesh in blender, but I find it nearly impossible. For me gmax is much more familiar and all the menus are much more self-explaining than it is the case in blender. As a mechanical engineering designer I am much more familiar with software which behaves similar to gmax. In gmax I know how to create a plane and all that things while in blender the user interface appears in a way that I never really found the right tools to create mesh like I can do in gmax.
Therefore, again thank you all for your help!
@ korvtiger:
Your cab is looking great!
@ Zeldaboy14:
May you try to handle the attachment points in an extra mesh anyway.
I needed to do so because I want to maintain season change at all of my assets. That means you need snowy-mesh and non-snow-mesh for each LOD-step. But you cannot include all the required attachment points in all of that meshes eventually been chosen for indication by the season selector tags in the config.txt as this causes several problems in trainz.
The best way to deal with this problem is, to create a mesh that only contains all the required attachment points – and at leased one single small plain because there must be just two polygons at a mesh file as you cannot have a mesh file containing attachment points only.
Let’s call this “basic mesh including all attachment points”
In addition to this you create the mesh of your rolling stock as you would have done before but this time without any attachment points.
Let’s call this “body mesh”.
In the config.txt you than will need to arrange your meshes like this:
mesh-table {
default {
mesh "basic mesh including all attachment points.im"
auto-create 1
effects {if there are effects …
}
}
body {
mesh "body mesh.im" … (or body mesh.lm – if you use LOD technique)
auto-create 1
}
}
Of course, if you want to maintain season change you will need to create two body meshes – one with and another without snow. I could explain in an extra thread how to arrange that in the config if anybody is interested in.
In this way you could take over meshes into the Quixel Mixer to do some updates but you don’t need to take care about the attachment points any more.
Your’s TUME
