[Tutorial] How to rip PS2 models v.2

[racefan56]

you can use the vertex weld and smooth modifier for that. don't confuse the smooth modifier with meshsmooth or turbosmooth though

Thanks, that seems to help clean it up some. Do how do you change the color in the texture image that 3ds is supposed to "ignore" and make transparent? I assume the default would be black or something, but in that hair image the very bottom darker blue it the color that needs to be ignored. Not sure if that whole spill makes any sense for the functions of this program, but right now the texture is just plastered all over any piece its set to be on, not airy and stringy like hair should look. If that color were to be "ignored", I believe it may actually start looking right.

The hair should look something like this...

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But it actually looks like this...

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Also, for some reason the only way to get the texture to appear at all on the object, and not just as solid blue, is to set the hair texture to "Environment" instead of "Texture" under Coordinates. Not sure if thats a problem or not. EDIT: O bejezus I might have got this one fixed! I set it back to "Texture" and changed the mapping to "Planar from Object XYZ, and it actually looks better than before, not like true hair (still can't get that part), but better.

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't one really complicated & troublesome process. Makes me think we should be paying lots more for the games we buy if the creators had to make everything in a similar fashion, and from scratch