Maratis forum - Tutorial Doctor's Maratis Showcase:

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Fri, 23 May 2014 17:00:14 +0000

Cool levels here I come! (Image 31)

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:36:50 +0000

Finally got diffuse maps, ambient occlusion, normal maps, and specular maps working good enough. Now it's time to make some full levels (not just test levels). (Image 30)

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:01:07 +0000

Testing out normal maps and ambient occlusion (Image 27).

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:57:13 +0000

Quick Modular city/village (Image 24 & 25)

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:01:37 +0000

Got a walking character now! (Image 19)

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:55:58 +0000

zester wrote:

--I can't quite get clothes that are separate objects to Rig correctly, but I needed to put something on the model.
I can help with this if your still having trouble, parenting clothes and getting them to deform to your model properly during animation is just generally a pain.

I thought it was me! haha. Thanks.

I have noticed that when the cloth mesh is flat (no thickness) it has no problem, but when it has thickness it gets strange.

I have been looking at a lot of meshes from this one website:
http://tf3dm.com/

Bunch of ripped game characters. When I bring them into blender, it is strange how the mesh is divided up. However, trying to export a rigged version of these meshes as a maratis mesh gives a callback error every time.

Re: Tutorial Doctor's Maratis Showcase:

dummy@example.com (zester) — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:47:57 +0000

--I can't quite get clothes that are separate objects to Rig correctly, but I needed to put something on the model.

I can help with this if your still having trouble, parenting clothes and getting them to deform to your model properly during animation is just generally a pain.

Re: Tutorial Doctor's Maratis Showcase:

dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:37:42 +0000

Done some Animation (Image 17) and some NORMAL MAPPING (Image 18)

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:00:03 +0000

Added a pretty decent car mesh to the Physics level (Image 12) Changed the camera a bit. And it looks really good! Not my model. I am using it as a test mesh.

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dummy@example.com (Pär) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:58:18 +0000

That's awesome.

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:35:17 +0000

Pär wrote:

How did you import .obj into maratis? I have only been able to import .mesh into maratis. Would you explain how to do it? Or have I misunderstood your first post?
Edit: Because it looks awesome.

To import a .obj file:

In Marstis, go to FILE and then down to IMPORT 3D MODEL. Then choose your OBJ.

I will make a small tutorial on how I get ambient occlusion in my models soon.

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dummy@example.com (Pär) — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:27:30 +0000

How did you import .obj into maratis? I have only been able to import .mesh into maratis. Would you explain how to do it? Or have I misunderstood your first post?

Edit: Because it looks awesome.

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dummy@example.com (VeganDev) — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:59:46 +0000

Well as I said, the problem is NOT from sculptris as I have that completely worked out, its HOW you did it ALL in blender including the texture painting of different layers such as grass and sand as in image 9/10 above. How was that done

I try not to use blender as I find sculptris So much easier to worth with , but those who live by blender need to know how 9/10 were done

I thought for sure Anael said you needed a shader for this, but if you found some way around it, fine all the better.

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dummy@example.com (Tutorial Doctor) — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:41:39 +0000

Once you have modeled and painted your object in sculptris, you have to export your texture map (SAVE TEXMAP). Place this image in the maps folder of your maratis project.

Then export your obj file.

Import the obj into blender. Once in blender, select the object and add a material. To that material add a texture. Make it an IMAGE OR MOVIE texture. Select your exported TEXMAP. Change the uv mapping method from GENERAL to UV. (It already has UV coordinates)
Export your .MESH file to your meshes folder.

TIP:

Maratis has a little issue with finding textures for meshes. If your original map is moved at all, the mesh file will loose it.

Often I have to open the mesh file in a text editor.

For instance, say in the mesh file it uses this path to get the map:

..\...\pictures\textures\ground.png

I have to redirect it to
..\maps\ground.png

So that the mesh knows to hop next door into the maps folder to get e map

(I have to do this often)

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dummy@example.com (VeganDev) — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:20:37 +0000

I did finally figure out h ow to get my terrain/textures from sculptris into blender, then into maratis, but I still can not get them directly from blender to Maratis, and im referring to just making a terrain and doing multiple texture painting on it. Anael as I recall ? said you needed a shader for this from blender to maratis but quite clearly you don't, when going from sculptris to blender to maratis so all this needs to be e xplained a lot better. It doesn't really matter to me so much as I find blender very sluggish at doing many things ( texture painting and sometimes sculpting, maybe a bug dunno) and atm anyway, I much prefer sculptris for all my creation tasks because its so easy to unwrap and sculpt and texture

So if you have a way of doing this without shaders please let us know .