How To Import Objects into Alice

[x2495iiii]

You have to to it in Blender, but you don't want to create more subparts, you want to apply the texture of the model to the subparts in Alice.

[dakota95]

but if I had a model and wanted to create sub-parts how would I do it? Is there a video or something to watch?

And how do I import textures?

[x2495iiii]

Each object has a textures list in the at the bottom of their properties tab. The button is there.

And for subparts, I'm not sure anymore. The new blender has me confused.

[room14]

I can't get it to export in are how'd you do it?

EDIT I found out how to make subparts out side of editing softwares like sketch up and blender btw.

[dakota95]

@x I have the v.2.44 blender since that is what the ase export thing you have is for.

@room14 How do you create sub-parts?

[dakota95]

Originally Posted by room14

I can't get it to export in are how'd you do it?

are you asking me or x? And did you mean ase or are? If you downloaded the latest blender then the patch that x has won't work. You need to download the v.2.44 blender which you can get from the link that x has on the first post of this thread. Just click on older versions. If you have v.2.44 then maybe you didn't place the patch in the correct place.

And the blender v.2.44 that I downloaded will only let me import .obj and not collada. So then I had to get mesh lab http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/files/ and import the collada into it, then export it as an .obj, then import it into blender as an .obj then export it as a .ase.. If you need any further clarification I can go into more detail.

[room14]

Originally Posted by dakota95

@room14 How do you create sub-parts?

First of all, thanks for the answer.

anyway. you need to export the parts one by one open up notepad and paste the code into the main object.

I'll make a tutorial later.

[dakota95]

When I tried to import collada into blender i get this:

Compiled with Python version 2.5.
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
Error! Could not find reader.Sax2 module
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 67, in <module>
ImportError: No module named re

[Fargo]

Originally Posted by x2495iiii

For that, you need to open blender, then delete the starting cube (the square that is in your blender project by default) and click Import>3d model and find 3ds files on the list. Alternatively, you could just use Biturn to convert it to an ase file, since Biturn can handle 3ds models.

Hello all, new to using Alice and Blender but having a similar issue. Blender will not import anything... it is saying I need a full Python install, but python appears to be there already.
Any help please?

[x2495iiii]

Is it the right version of Python?