The demo is just for looking around, you must buy it - 15 dollars actually and trough Paypal (when you install the demo, there will be a buy-button at opening screen) ...
Models need to consist of
meshes whyte max. of around
64000 vertices (is in the topics) and textures in ... 3Dc/ATI2
DDS format. The modell should be in
COLLADA (.dae) format too for the importer to handle (i think Maya hat some issue whyte it, see trough the forum on it, but Blender does that just fine - im working whyte it too).
As for the model structure, there are few things :
- individual meshes pivots(origins) are used in scripting for theyr rotation/movement, so if you plan use some of them in script, you need to place the pivot at the rotation place. Also a little of planing how the model should be partitioned for all that.
- Hierarchy is supported, best is to do a empty mesh and all parts as separate ones parented to the one (you will see in the importer itself the hierarchy nicely lined up then - the empty´s pivot is used also as a center of mass of the whole object)
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Check normals of each face - i had a share of forgetting of them and sitting two weeks on blender just to flip them all the right way.
Scripting for the vehicle-script is in java and there are some simple ones posted to use ... doe a little insight isnt much of a bad thing (i mostly learned what i needed at a try and error basis) - they talked about C++ even and a bunch of other, but for models and their playing around is the simple java all you need now.
As Outerra is an engine for developers, they want to do Antenworld - as a game made in Outerra engine to show its capabilities to the market and use it too as a "work in progress" fund rising to complete the engine.
P.S.: And dont be shy to send even PM´s to all the forum members about their works whyte a ton of questions, people are nice here.
Most things of general questions are scattered around the forum, so looking trough all those sites would be a lot of asking-reducer, but we understand much of it is in pieces all over the place, so dont worry to ask anyway.
