Newest EDM Model Tools

[joey45]

Is it an actual texture file or just a material? 

[Vismonger]

16 minutes ago, joey45 said:

Is it an actual texture file or just a material? 

Currently still just a material

[joey45]

I have a load of 64x64 bmp maps of various colours for testing.

[Vismonger]

1 minute ago, joey45 said:

I have a load of 64x64 bmp maps of various colours for testing.

Will try when I get back home

[rato65]

@Vismonger what version of max do you use? What exact material do you apply in terms of material type in the material editor? I had a similar issue with max 2022 and it was due to the wrong standard material. see few posts above.

[Vismonger]

On 2/1/2024 at 9:27 AM, rato65 said:

@Vismonger what version of max do you use? What exact material do you apply in terms of material type in the material editor? I had a similar issue with max 2022 and it was due to the wrong standard material. see few posts above.

I use 2024 but I've tried a handful of versions in the past and they al seemed to do the same, I am still learning 3ds max since I am a blender guy so it could be user error and something easily fixed but I can't find what I missed from the guides. (I use the English version since the normal and translated ones sometimes break the edm tool, or so i've heard)

[The_Fragger]

On 1/24/2024 at 10:17 PM, Vismonger said:

I am having troubles getting anything to show up in the modelviewer. It gives all these errors but they also appear when loading the f5E for example but the model still shows up. Mine don't show up.

this is just a simple setup to sanity check myself. The dummy has Type="boundingbox"; and i've tried to but the box on renderable and no type but it just won't work. Pretty sad because I made a fully modeled and animated cockpit.

Please help I can't find anything about this and I can't understand most of the instructions.

The Name of the Bounding Box should be : TYPE = "bounding_box";
Bounding box must (!) cover the whole 3D objects. I suggest to make it bigger (just in case)
For your cube:

- Apply a Standard (Legacy) Material (only these work)
- apply material to object
- Make Cool
- Export

Edited February 5, 2024 by The_Fragger
forgot something

[FalconDriver5005]

On 2/2/2024 at 10:05 PM, Vismonger said:

I use 2024 but I've tried a handful of versions in the past and they al seemed to do the same, I am still learning 3ds max since I am a blender guy so it could be user error and something easily fixed but I can't find what I missed from the guides. (I use the English version since the normal and translated ones sometimes break the edm tool, or so i've heard)

I have the same issues as you. i cant for the life of me get a model to show in model viewer.. I downgraded to a 2022 version after a few people said the edm exporter doesn't work with 2024.. but still nothing

Edited February 5, 2024 by FalconDriver5005

[The_Fragger]

Hi. anyone also have OMNI/SPOTLIGHTS doesn't cast any glare anymore in the Model Viewer ?

Edited March 3, 2024 by The_Fragger
correction

[Admiral189]

Hey Vismoner. I see that problem every so often as well. Mods don't appear in MV. Most of the time it was the EDM Plugin. Try changing versions. 

[Merker]

Hey there all, I'm having a bit of an interesting challenge after rejoining the A-4 team and settling back into 3ds. I've noticed that every time I export using Max 2022, edm plugin build 216821, the bort number animations are broken (args exist in model viewer, but are frozen at the mid-point of the animated number texture). I can see no differences from my external file from 2019 and now that suggest the animation being different in the current iteration. 

However, when I setup 3ds Max 2022 with any of the 3ds plugin builds from the past few months, the borts are completely absent in model viewer, evidently not exporting with the rest of the model from what I can tell. I've used almost build going back to 229281 with the same result.

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong here? My work on the A-4 is pretty much halted until I can sort this out, and despite all of my research and troubleshooting, I've been unable to resolve it. Any suggestions would be be incredibly appreciated!

[SkateZilla]

On 6/15/2024 at 10:46 AM, Merker said:

Hey there all, I'm having a bit of an interesting challenge after rejoining the A-4 team and settling back into 3ds. I've noticed that every time I export using Max 2022, edm plugin build 216821, the bort number animations are broken (args exist in model viewer, but are frozen at the mid-point of the animated number texture). I can see no differences from my external file from 2019 and now that suggest the animation being different in the current iteration. 

However, when I setup 3ds Max 2022 with any of the 3ds plugin builds from the past few months, the borts are completely absent in model viewer, evidently not exporting with the rest of the model from what I can tell. I've used almost build going back to 229281 with the same result.

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong here? My work on the A-4 is pretty much halted until I can sort this out, and despite all of my research and troubleshooting, I've been unable to resolve it. Any suggestions would be be incredibly appreciated!

Considering the EDM Plugin was last updated in May... I think support for 3D Suites has shifted.

But If you need some help, I'm 99% sure I'm on the A4 discord, you can message me there.

 

You may have to Ping me, as I'm in dozens of Discords.

Edited June 22, 2024 by SkateZilla

[cubanace]

Does anyone have a link for ED blender plugin? and what version of blender does it work with? 

Never mind i found them at Index of /mods/edm_blender_plugins/ (eagle.ru).

Edited June 22, 2024 by cubanace

[denissoliveira]

On 6/15/2024 at 11:46 AM, Merker said:

Hey there all, I'm having a bit of an interesting challenge after rejoining the A-4 team and settling back into 3ds. I've noticed that every time I export using Max 2022, edm plugin build 216821, the bort number animations are broken (args exist in model viewer, but are frozen at the mid-point of the animated number texture). I can see no differences from my external file from 2019 and now that suggest the animation being different in the current iteration. 

However, when I setup 3ds Max 2022 with any of the 3ds plugin builds from the past few months, the borts are completely absent in model viewer, evidently not exporting with the rest of the model from what I can tell. I've used almost build going back to 229281 with the same result.

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong here? My work on the A-4 is pretty much halted until I can sort this out, and despite all of my research and troubleshooting, I've been unable to resolve it. Any suggestions would be be incredibly appreciated!

Will we have a model without the hump? I really wanted to create mods for the A-4

[Fisherman82]

On 6/22/2024 at 6:38 PM, cubanace said:

Does anyone have a link for ED blender plugin? and what version of blender does it work with? 

Never mind i found them at Index of /mods/edm_blender_plugins/ (eagle.ru).

 

But could you get them to work? If so, what Blender version are you using?

[cubanace]

10 hours ago, Fisherman82 said:

But could you get them to work? If so, what Blender version are you using?

Honestly I did not even try because I was able to get my 3ds max back.

[Pougatchev]

Does someone can answer if the blender plugin here => https://files.eagle.ru/mods/edm_blender_plugins/ have the same capability for modding like max ED plugin? I mean do we have there something that can be use to make a plane from A to Z without having to pay a max license?

Thank you,

[theyagizsina]

On 7/26/2024 at 11:43 AM, Pougatchev said:

Does someone can answer if the blender plugin here => https://files.eagle.ru/mods/edm_blender_plugins/ have the same capability for modding like max ED plugin? I mean do we have there something that can be use to make a plane from A to Z without having to pay a max license?

Thank you,

First of all Greetings! I have been using the blender plugin since February, there is no problem except that we can only give 1 argument to the armature in skin animations. My observations are that it gets better with each new update, the last one was EDM_Glass material as a direct shader node, I think they are working on mirror as well. but you can create mirror and glass even if it is not as a shader node. (tested and confirmed)

But there is no channel to report the bugs we encounter, if I remember correctly, I wrote to NineLine and BIGNEWY a month ago about the bugs I encountered. but some of these bugs still exist (in the case of skin animations)

In my own projects now, I can use IK, bake emtyp's to make perfect landing gear animations etc. It took me a lot of time with trial and error to learn them and make them work properly in the plugin.

I would like to prepare a training document/video about them after the problems with the skin/bones are solved.

Here you can see my first completed PC-7 in full animation for testing purposes

 

Edited August 6, 2024 by theyagizsina

[Ice_Cream_Sandwich]

Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to import the 3d models from the F-15E cockpit into blender. Me and a friend of mine are in the planning process of making a mod and I can't seem to figure this out. I'm very new to moding in DCS but I have a lot of modeling experience. Is it even possible to modify the strike eagle cockpit models? Any help would be appreciated.

Edited August 15, 2024 by Ice_Cream_Sandwich

[razo+r]

2 hours ago, Ice_Cream_Sandwich said:

Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to import the 3d models from the F-15E cockpit into blender. Me and a friend of mine are in the planning process of making a mod and I can't seem to figure this out. I'm very new to moding in DCS but I have a lot of modeling experience. Is it even possible to modify the strike eagle cockpit models? Any help would be appreciated.

 

No. You cannot import models from DCS. 

[SkateZilla]

Any 3D Guys around?
Working on remastering some of my Models,and during the transistion between Max '16, '20 and '24 plus the dance of plugin installations.
Seems I've borked the Gradual On/off Fade of Self Illuminated textures *(Formation and Position Lights),
IIRC,
Assign Controller, Arg Based Visibility, Then Set track to Linear Float instead of On/Off. However it's still behaving like on/off, that or 3DS Crashes during export.

Shouldn't I be allowed to apply a modifier to the DIFFUSE or SELF_ILLUMINATION Amount?

Dis-regard I've fixed it.

Edited August 21, 2024 by SkateZilla

[joey45]

Did you try the float arg?

[SkateZilla]

8 hours ago, joey45 said:

Did you try the float arg?

Yeah I've sorted it, was half a messup on my end, and half 3DS '24 not showing texture maps in curve editor.

Went back to '16 to test, and export and it worked correctly, Had to remove the old Arg Controller off the Visibility Channel, then assign ArgFloat controller to the Self Illumination Amount, and set that up as reverse -1.0 to 0, since my default value for Self Illumination was 100.

Now I have to dig through Max '24 Settings and find out why the curve editor isnt showing anything. Pretty sure it's a default filter, cause it doesnt make sense for AutoDesk to delete a feature that 99% of their clients use.

Edited August 22, 2024 by SkateZilla

[Homelander]

Problem solved

Every time I attempt to export a 3D model using the Eagle Dynamics EDM plugin, Blender crashes. I have tested this with plugin versions "edm_tools_blender_plugin-239340.zip" and "edm_tools_blender_plugin-239341.zip" on Blender versions 3.6, 4.0, and 4.2. Additionally, attempting to export models from the Learning_Demo folder also results in Blender crashing.

Blender does not show me any error messages and no crash reports are generated.

OS: Windows 10 64-Bit.

Edited August 28, 2024 by Homelander

[mkel2010]

12 hours ago, Homelander said:

Every time I attempt to export a 3D model using the Eagle Dynamics EDM plugin, Blender crashes. I have tested this with plugin versions "edm_tools_blender_plugin-239340.zip" and "edm_tools_blender_plugin-239341.zip" on Blender versions 3.6, 4.0, and 4.2. Additionally, attempting to export models from the Learning_Demo folder also results in Blender crashing.

Blender does not show me any error messages and no crash reports are generated.

OS: Windows 10 64-Bit.

I don't know if the plugin you're using is from ED or a user called Tobi. I found that Tobi's EDM plugin would not work with anything above Blender 2.X. Downloaded an earlier version of Blender and it worked fine. You might try that.