3ds max, biped problem

[atif]

hi guys ive been having this serious problem.i m using biped for my characters in 3ds max ,when i try to export my character it gives an error messege with the following title

max rollout handler exception

-unknown property."scale" in $Biped_ObjectBip01 @[0.000000,0.000003,0.000000]

ive have exported characters using bibed before but nevr had this problem before but now i cant export any character with biped the same error keeps popping up with different values..i also have no problem when using simple bones ,could it be tht my 3ds max - biped files are corrupted
plese help me out...

[KO]

I would very much appreciate a solution on this as well. I'm running into the same problem.
I just started using the ogre Exporter so I may well have made some mistake somewhere along the process.
thx in advance.

[atif]

well no solutions till now KO.........

[BlasterN]

I never see this before. But maybe the field "scale" in the exporter is blank and because of that is undefined and thow the error. the default is 1.00.

if don't work... Increase the model size maybe the problem is that.

I really don't know the solution but maybe that helps.

[KO]

hey BlasterN
thanks for the suggestions. Still not working, unfortunately...
I'm thinking of anything that has to do with scaling the Root Bone Bip01...

I have no idea what's wrong. The Bip01 doesn't even have a scaling value. And it's not supposed to. Why is that causing a problem?
I'm guessing it must be a problem with the rigging or something... I did everything the way McSwan described it in his tutorial...

[atif]

man scaling is not the only problem .i ve tried using a biped without any scaling at all and i got the same error this time for translations.dunno wht i m doing wrong yhis proplem is making me crazy

and the problem is with the root it gives values of the root

[atif]

man scaling is not the only problem .i ve tried using a biped without any scaling at all and i got the same error this time for translations.dunno wht i m doing wrong this proplem is making me crazy

and the problem is with the root it gives values of the root

[atif]

oops sorry posted the same reply twice

I did everything the way McSwan described it in his tutorial...

could u send me a link to this tutorial.ill try it out too

[KO]

It's stickied in the Content Creation forum, but here's a direct link for your convenience: http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10040

[atif]

hi again have u tried reinstalling ur 3ds max could it be a problem with max. i used to work fine with biped before but since ive reinstalled max and im having this problem...??

[KO]

no I haven't tried yet...
what MAx version are you running?

I'm gonna take this down to University on Thursday to try it on Max 7. I only got Max 5.

Why are we the only ones who've run into this problem up to now?

[atif]

im using max 7 and as i said there no problem with max version it worked fine with max 7....well keep tryin if i have any success ill let u know

[Mikachu]

I have the same issue with max 6...
I think the problem is that the exporter considers all bone should have a scale value, which is not true for the root bone with biped.

Perhaps you could detect in the script when it applies to "bip01" and then return 1 as scale.

I'll try this...

[Mikachu]

well, if I remove these 3 lines from ogrebipedlib.ms :

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if (d.parent != undefined) then (
        pos = pos * d.parent.scale ;
    )

and then restart max, it doesn't display the error message, and seems to export normally.

I know it's not a real solution, because there's information loss, but I'm working on this...

[Mikachu]

It's me again...

It seems that replacing

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if (d.parent != undefined) then (
        pos = pos * d.parent.scale ;
    ) 

by this

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if ((d.parent != undefined) and (hasproperty d.parent "scale")) then (
        pos = pos * d.parent.scale ;
    )

in ogrebipedlib.ms and then restarting 3dsmax makes the exporter work...

Can anyone confirm ?

[KO]

Yeah

seems to be exporting fine, although I get some weird jerking motions when my Character turns around his own axis (on a 360° turn, he jerks around in a weird fashion while he's facing backwards from the camera...)

could be a problem with my animation though... everything else seems fine. Thanks for the tip Mikachu!

[edit]Seems like the jerking is a meshviewer Problem. Our programmer just inserted the model and it works fine in a testevironment. Huge Thanks Mikachu! Someone should edit the topic title to [solved]

[atif]

thnx mikachu ur a life saver

[sichuan]

I try to change code as the above.
The exporter work well when exporting.
But when I use it in the game.
The animation is not same as I saw in Max. ( especially non-biped models )
Anybody have the recommended?

[sichuan]

Adding hasProperty can help some models exporting correctly.
But some models become strange I tried before.
Mainly, deformations will occur when animating.
Another instruction, isProperty, I found from the MAXScript reference.
All models seem to work well, if use isProperty to replace hasProperty.