Meshing : Mishaps ,Slip-Ups & New Projects

[MixdCrysy]

I am a beggining (trying to be) mesher. I wanted to make a thread so I can share my slip-ups and hopefully you may want to share yours too.

So, I followed tiggerypum & HystericalParoxysm's tutorial for beggining meshing (which is very exellent by the way, thank you tiggerypum & HystericalParoxysm
< http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=142305 >) and got soooooo exited. In this TUT, We were supposed to be taking that weird hangy thing from the maxis dress mesh.



So I went into bodyshop and tried to look at the finished product. It didnt show up right so I figure I did something wrong somewhere so I deleted the recolorand the mesh, intent to restart to see what I did wrong and to try, try again.

I started looking for the same dress becuase I was sooo intent on removing that weird hangy thingand this is what I found:
 


LOL. I somehow edited the Maxis mesh.... LOL. :punch:

[miros1]

Oh man!  Time to reinstall!

[MixdCrysy]

So ive been trying different TUTs to see if I can get it right. This one is by tigerpum at MTS2. It is very detailed and informative. Not hard to follow at all (thanks, tigerpum, for the tuts). Leave it to me to screw it up lol. This is my latest fiasco:







As you see, I think I got it wrong. I swear someone should just take the PC away from me lol...:smt120 :toothy10:

[MixdCrysy]

ok so I finally got it. It was simpler than I made it out to be. And look, no holes! Lol!

[MixdCrysy]

Here is my current meshing drama; I am combining mesh parts (warlokks rio with marvines heels) checked and double checked bone assignmensts and still have this:


Cant figure it out. Im using the etended manual edit and cant get it right in game.
 

[MixdCrysy]

Now I got this.

[Tenshii~Akari]

:shock:  Ouch.... that looks painful!  :lol:

At least you're getting somewhere with body meshing.  I'm still at a stand-still with getting started... :?

[MixdCrysy]

:shock:  Ouch.... that looks painful!  :lol:

At least you're getting somewhere with body meshing.  I'm still at a stand-still with getting started... :?

I find the tuts here and at mts2 very informative. I started at the begining and did like 25 maxis meshes first before I tried this. In the begining it was like"What the %^&#" but then as I kept doing it it got a little better. I had to start and restart sooooo many times... but I finally got it (simple mesh changes using mesh tool and unimesh (milkshape). Afterr doing it like 50 times, you remeber the steps. I always look at the TUT though, cuase who can remember all those steps by heart! But dont give up!! It gets better, even now when I am having serious issues with the mesh pictured, I am optimistic that I will figure out what I did wrong.

[MixdCrysy]

One of our insim members, bloodrayne2sims, requested a few charactors from the bloodrayne. I picked the dopelgangers twins becuase I wanted to see if it would be possible in-game.


So I first am trying with the maxis shape and with the left arm. I flattened it out so it looks like the picture. If I like the maxis shape, I will do it for the BB too. I got the idea that it might be possible from BlooM's thread here : http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=31235&highlight=handicap: .




And I like how it looks in-game too. I wish I could upload the videos. Too big. I cant find anywhere I can upload anything over 100 mb. It looks really cool.

[MixdCrysy]

Now I finished the top only mesh. I am working on the full body regular and the full body athletic. I decided that it would be better to have a few different meshes instead of one.

[MixdCrysy]

Ok. Having some issues. Got the mesh to look just the way I wanted.









Took me 6 days and then this happend.




Here is some video too.


http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/Chrystalnun/?action=view¤t=movie007.flv

http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/Chrystalnun/?action=view¤t=movie009.flv

http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/Chrystalnun/?action=view¤t=movie008.flv

[xoJessi]

Thats pretty creep!!! oowie. :lol:

[Sam the T-man]

:lol: I had an exploded mesh once, managed to fix it before it got into the game though

... are you gonna hate me if I say I found that first tutorial easy? :angel: They are very handy though

[MixdCrysy]

:lol: I had an exploded mesh once, managed to fix it before it got into the game though

... are you gonna hate me if I say I found that first tutorial easy? :angel: They are very handy though

No, not at all. I do love that we have them, and they are very detailed. Im just a dork sometimes :-P lol.

[MixdCrysy]

Nothing is ever easy...