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Only a small fraction of this great tutorial is specific to Blender. There are only a few lines describing how to Export an SMD from Blender. Once you've got an SMD (& TGA), the rest of the tutorial is a collection of really handy QC recipes which apply equally to compiling any SMD file (whether created by Blender, XSI, 3DS, etc) through StudioMDL. So I'm suggesting that this article be split, basically move the QC stuff out into a more general Model-compiling article, rather than being buried in the Blender-tutorials category. Possibly rename this article something like "Exporting SMD from Blender"? Does that make sense? --[[User:Beeswax|Beeswax]] 06:31, 22 Apr 2008 (PDT) | Only a small fraction of this great tutorial is specific to Blender. There are only a few lines describing how to Export an SMD from Blender. Once you've got an SMD (& TGA), the rest of the tutorial is a collection of really handy QC recipes which apply equally to compiling any SMD file (whether created by Blender, XSI, 3DS, etc) through StudioMDL. So I'm suggesting that this article be split, basically move the QC stuff out into a more general Model-compiling article, rather than being buried in the Blender-tutorials category. Possibly rename this article something like "Exporting SMD from Blender"? Does that make sense? --[[User:Beeswax|Beeswax]] 06:31, 22 Apr 2008 (PDT) | ||
:I think this is an excellent idea, though I would probably change the name to "Blender: Exporting SMD Files" and have equivalent names for each tool: eg. "XSI: Exporting SMD Files", etc. Giving the articles prefixes like this helps to organize all of the related tutorials together by tool when searching and in category lists. Ideally, each tool would have its own page with links to its home site, plugins, beginner tutorials, and VDC-specific tutorials, and all of the tools would be collected together under the "Tools" category with links to the main page of each. (The Tools category page, as it currently stands, seems curiously counter-intuitive to me. It would make more sense to me to have the main Tools page list ''all'' tools, with subcategories listing sub-groups of the complete list, but that's a comment for a different talk page....) The complete process of creating a model, material, etc., should have a single 'Overview' tutorial which breaks off into tool-specific pages as required before returning to the main tutorial. That's just the way it seems to me. [[User:Yithian|Yithian]] 07:57, 24 Apr 2008 (PDT) | |||
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Information in this post: [1] to be incorporated later. --Rof 13:49, 2 Feb 2006 (PST)
Alternative SMD exporter
At the time of writing the given exporter link was dead. This alternative SMD Exporter posted by Dragonlord works fine. You will have to give your materials the same name as your .tga files (without the extension).
- We should have the links in one place where they are updated - it makes no sense to go through several articles, changing the exporters... and it's not useful to have the same stuff in several articles. This place would be Blender, as it is the starting point if someone wants to work with it. --Vaarscha 06:36, 25 Apr 2006 (PDT)
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Only a small fraction of this great tutorial is specific to Blender. There are only a few lines describing how to Export an SMD from Blender. Once you've got an SMD (& TGA), the rest of the tutorial is a collection of really handy QC recipes which apply equally to compiling any SMD file (whether created by Blender, XSI, 3DS, etc) through StudioMDL. So I'm suggesting that this article be split, basically move the QC stuff out into a more general Model-compiling article, rather than being buried in the Blender-tutorials category. Possibly rename this article something like "Exporting SMD from Blender"? Does that make sense? --Beeswax 06:31, 22 Apr 2008 (PDT)
- I think this is an excellent idea, though I would probably change the name to "Blender: Exporting SMD Files" and have equivalent names for each tool: eg. "XSI: Exporting SMD Files", etc. Giving the articles prefixes like this helps to organize all of the related tutorials together by tool when searching and in category lists. Ideally, each tool would have its own page with links to its home site, plugins, beginner tutorials, and VDC-specific tutorials, and all of the tools would be collected together under the "Tools" category with links to the main page of each. (The Tools category page, as it currently stands, seems curiously counter-intuitive to me. It would make more sense to me to have the main Tools page list all tools, with subcategories listing sub-groups of the complete list, but that's a comment for a different talk page....) The complete process of creating a model, material, etc., should have a single 'Overview' tutorial which breaks off into tool-specific pages as required before returning to the main tutorial. That's just the way it seems to me. Yithian 07:57, 24 Apr 2008 (PDT)