Looking through the ky.3do, why are there lots of instances of the MESHES. Studing them, I noticed the same MESHES are different.. whats the deal with that? How do you go about changing a part of the body kyle or whoever.

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A mesh is a basic model part, like a head. It's the equivalent of a sector. The Jedi Knight specs has a full description of the 3DO format.
http://www.codealliance.ca/Docs/jediknight/jk_specs/3do.htm

You can edit 3DOs with dr0id's editors, JOKE and Fun3DO. http://droid.codealliance.ca/download/index.html

JOKE can do it all, but some people still prefer to make models in JED and texture them with Fun3DO.


[This message has been edited by UGG (edited September 19, 2003).]

Thanks for the reply UGG, However.. I know all that stuff already

So I have this question, if you look through ky.3do. There are multiple Meshes that have the same number (ex. MESH 13). Does this have to do with the pup or anything? Why are there multiple meshes of the same?

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[This message has been edited by Z@NARDI (edited September 22, 2003).]

Those are the LOD's (level of detail) if you look in the level header stuff in JED it'll say 3do LOD distances, each one of the different LOD's is displayed at those distances in a level. Basically, it made the model less detailed at farther distances in the level.
Anymore you don't need more than one LOD because computers are faster and better than when JK was made.

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Unless your like me and your player model is very high detailed, intended for a high detailed environment. In which case you might want to take full advanatage of it.

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Ahhh ok, so its like a mip-map of a .mat file?

Makes perfect sense, thanks alot!

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here's another question.

I take another player for JK like one of the officers, import him into JED, then export all of his sectors as ky.3do

when I enter the game he works right, but he's sunk into his knees in the ground. And it has nothing to do with the level surface/face flags.

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You have to insert an offset. Open the 3do with notepad. Under the listed materials you'll see the section on GEOMETRYDEF. Underwhich, you'll see something that says insert offset 0 0 0. Change that so it reads insert offset 0 0 0.12 (the exact values are -0.000050 0.000000 0.120114, but the other is close enough).

File -> Save as... -> "iofficer.3do" (or whatever the name of the 3do is, but it's important that you have the quotations around it so it forces the extention.)

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[This message has been edited by Friend14 (edited September 23, 2003).]

Cool, Thanks friend

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