Meshing Question Creating/separating Groups in meshwizard

[Southwell]

Hey, I am just getting into developing using spacecraft3.dll. I have created my 3ds file converted to .msh format fine and opened in meshwizard. What I am stuck at is the fact that there is only one group, Group 0. From what I have gathered I need to have my landing gear in seperate groups from the fuselage etc to have the gear animations to work. I havent been able to find much documentation on this, any help would be much appreciated!!

Regards Ben

 

[cinder1992]

Unfortunately, IDK if meshwizard can do that, but If you have the original model, use anim8or.


you know how to colour individual triangles in anim8or, don't you? good.

make a material in anim8or with any colour (doesn't matter). then apply the material to the triangles of the mesh that you want to group.

convert to mesh and bob's your uncle.

 

[Southwell]

thanks, at the moment I am creating my models in solid edge exporting it in 3ds and only opening and re exporting in anim8or as this is the only way I can get a 3ds file that will correctly convert to .msh format. So I havent used anim8or as of yet, but great to know that it can be done