Cheers Ikes...
Tony, see Ikes solution above.

Hi,

I think you mean this link.

http://muvizu.com/forum/topic5972-transparent-materials-in-fbx-files.aspx

-Ikes-

drewi wrote:



The same happens to me...

hi rod .....I'm getting this black area on my beach ...could be an oil spill.Any one else?....do i have to adjust anything to get rid of it?

drewi wrote:


Hi Drewi,

This has to do with a setting in the ini file under: ...\MuvizuGame\Config\DefaultGame.ini

change m_bStripVideoAlpha from true to false, that should do it.

I luv de island mon! Many tanks for dees, it is da kine primo mo betta.
I open a pineapple in your honor.

Translation: Excellent island and water. I want to live there.

In my experiments, Muvizu only lets you choose a texture if the original material was applied from a file (not from a color table)

To make this easier on myself, in my C:\UT3\ directory where the toto.bmp file is stored I also put a file for a lot of other commonly used colors (same 256x256 size).
C:\ut3\red.jpg
C:\ut3\blue.jpg
C:\ut3\green.jpg
C:\ut3\yellow.jpg
C:\ut3\cyan.jpg
C:\ut3\grey.jpg
C:\ut3\white.jpg
C:\ut3\black.jpg etc etc

Then when I make my models, I always select colors stored in C:\UT3... because they force the inclusion of a filepath, Muvizu considers it to be a texture, and will therefore let you replace it with another texture later.

-------update-------

another way to see if you will be able to pick a texture later is by looking at your material file before you create the FBX. (The material file is the .MTL file that accompanies the OBJ file)

Here are two material definitions. The first one will NOT let you select a texture, but the second one will... and the reason is because the second material has a file name, while the first material is defined by RGB values

newmtl blue
Ka 0.8 0.8 0.8
Kd 0 0 1
Ks 0 0 0
Ns 64 <--- lack of a filename means this material can only be replaced by a color

newmtl banjo
Ka 0.611765 0.611765 0.611765
Kd 1 1 1
Ks 1 1 1
Ns 0
map_Kd /home/pat/Pictures/BANJO.png <--- filename is what tells Muvizu this is a texture

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edited by PatMarrNC on 14/11/2016

hi rod .....I'm getting this black area on my beach ...could be an oil spill.Any one else?....do i have to adjust anything to get rid of it?

Looks special Rod.....we should have a SET of the month and year awards.This would get my vote

Can you give me a link to the thread where you explained how you got an FBX with a transparency to work?

I did some experimenting with ASE transparency in the week just before Ikes helped me figure out how to get transparency working in FBX files.

clayster2012 wrote:



you could uvmap the truck and apply two materials to it so people can change the sign. I thought you were modelling this stuff? then you could uvmap the cube to add a layer so people can just add the texture to the truck and then the truck could move.
edited by urbanlamb on 13/11/2016

So far the only useful ways was Pat's idea of a backdrop with texture then place it on the building, also applied one on a truck object then grouped it together like so.

in fbx you simply seperate the parts you want to be transparency by putting them on a different material.

models meshs are just the framework.. you then add materials and the materials hold the properties of the object if you have parts of the object that require different properties then others (such as a light or window) you add a second material layer

you then uvmap all the material layers and texture accordingly place the parts of your uvmap requiring one set of properties on one material layer and the other parts of your uvmap onto the other material layer having the other properties)

The only place FBX is not practical (inside muvizu only) is with trees (although I have made other objects in ASE that are not trees, but you run into something called an alpha sorting bug which is characteristic of using alpha masks which is one reason why fbx was invented in the way it was to avoid the alpha sort issues). Anyhow in muvizu you really have no choice but to make trees using ase because for whatever reason -which I never bothered to decide if it was native to unreal 3 or something that muvizu just decided on- alpha masking is not recognized which is kinda wierd, but luckily they allow ase still for trees.

Anyhow the long and the short of it is yes you can put alpha into an fbx object without resorting to trickery and more mesh and flipping it inside out (mesh is one sided) by adding more material layers.
edited by urbanlamb on 13/11/2016

PatMarrNC wrote:


Thanks!

I've also made some shapes with UV maps, so you can choose what's easiest to use.
Should also be in the store this week for free.

Can we change the stores name?

don't forget to add collision to the blocks and provide the UVMaps so people can edit them !

I like the way you think, Ikes! Great idea!

Simple and funcional.
Have they any UV map or not ?; if not, they will need seamless textures for sure !

Hi,

As Pat was saying, you can use the abstract primitive shapes from muvizu to texture them as buildings. Too bad they only have one texture slot for all sides, so I've made some primitive shapes with different slots for all sides, since not everyone is able to model and import shapes. I made every shape in three sizes, the biggest ones can be scaled to the size of a house. Will be in the store this week for free download.

cool ideas, Clayster! And you develop this stuff so FAST, it makes my head spin!

Someone gave me an idea earlier in this topic for store display widows, can't remember who it was but I consider it the idea and added it to the set

cool ideas, Clayster! And you develop this stuff so FAST, it makes my head spin!

Can we change the stores name?

one thing about this kind of very low poly modelling
with detailed texture is that you can use the primitives
in muvizu to do the same thing... and they accept textures
very well. A block that is enlarged to its full extent, then
having a photo of a building applied to it will yield pretty much
the same results.

Clayster, When you think your city will be on the store?, I need it badly for my next video....

clayster2012 wrote:


Thanks, I understand now you don't resell it, which I find a good choice, even if you have the rights to do so. It's always more satisfying to sell your own stuff.
Well, you're doing a really good job on it and it is a very nice style for muvizu.

Ikes

clayster2012 wrote:


Of course...That is perfect, you are not using the same models,
but you are using the same style of buildings and cars, and I like it more than the ones from Muvizu
I think it is the same style that Rodrisilva uses on his great videos, that City looks amazing Clayster

urbanlamb wrote:


I understand your point, this is why the building wont be added to the store, even though I did remodel them but the textures are not mine, and I did buy the license that which allows me to resell but their still not being added to the store, the 3D City Backdrops are my creations and along with the cars and trucks because I completely remodeled and didn't use the textures, so I consider those as my creations with inspiration, but the scene that I'm making here can be downloaded from my dropbox once all of the assets are added to your list, so it wont be in the store, Im already working on my won textures for the buildings and maybe added to the store because it then will be completely different, I want everyone to understand that I did it this way for inspiration and as a test for speed and lag to prove that this can work and I am sorry for any confusion this may have caused, I have always used my own!
edited by clayster2012 on 10/11/2016

Ikes you guessed right they are used in that game, I bought the Unity asset a few months ago for game project that i was doing for a client, so since I still had the asset I could use it to help me, I only use the buildings to help test the speed and lag for the 3D City backdrops when I added them to a whole set, yes I did remodel some of the buildings and used the textures, but let me make it clear that these models will not be included in the set, even though I am allowed to resell them But I will not include them, I tried to make that clear once throughout this topic when i stated that this was a test to show how better 3D City backdrops would look in a city scene, Im sorry for any confusion this may have caused, the other model such as those That I have re-model will be in the set because they are not the same as in the asset pack, after all spending almost $60 for the asset i couldn't let it go to waste so I used it for inspiration

Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Unity and except as permitted under the Unity-EULA, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell any Asset that you have acquired from the Unity Asset Store for any purpose.

well lets hope that textures and models being created by someone else who has not given his permission to resell any of his work is not what is happening (we can only hope)



Its one thing to once and awhile use stuff with appropriate creative commons licenses and "share alike" and give them out for free if you know how to muvizuize them. Its another thing purchasing assets with copyright and using any parts or textures without their permission.

So hopefully that is not what is happening here. Let's just say a few shall we say 'inconsistencies' have been noticed over time. (yeah i wasn't going to say anything but since its out in the open I might as well say something LOL)
edited by urbanlamb on 10/11/2016

That really is such impressive work. Any chance we can get a short clip to see the city in action?

Ikes, I see some similarities in the cities, but they don't look the same to me. If you looked at the cartoon-y cities in a lot of CGI movies and shows, you might see some similarities.

That really is such impressive work. Any chance we can get a short clip to see the city in action?

Ikes, I see some similarities in the cities, but they don't look the same to me. If you looked at the cartoon-y cities in a lot of CGI movies and shows, you might see some similarities.

Hi Clay,

Your city looks really great, but I can't help noticing it looks very similar to this 3d parking game. Are those the same models as this game and if so, can you use that to sell the models? Or are you using it as inspiration?

ikes wrote:



I'm not sure because I made that sometime ago. But yes I remember that the problem was the low resolution UV map in muvizu. Actually source UV size is up to 4096 px but muvizu doesn't handle that. All models have the same UV model which means low individual resolution after all.
I remeber that I have imported them in Blender and exported to fbx format again after some UV maps improvements.

Rodrisilva wrote:


Aha, thanks for clearing that out Rodrigues! Can you directly import these fbx files in muvizu?

Yes, it's true! You can use it if you buy it at https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/17254

mindiflyth wrote:


Well. maybe not exactly the same indeed. I was specifically meaning the brown houses with rounded roofs in the back. I also see them in Rodrisilva's latest movie.

That really is such impressive work. Any chance we can get a short clip to see the city in action?

Ikes, I see some similarities in the cities, but they don't look the same to me. If you looked at the cartoon-y cities in a lot of CGI movies and shows, you might see some similarities.

Yes I already got that method worked in,I was trying do it that way to keep file size down,so I may or may not use that method, maybe just go with direct properties.

What I mean is, you know how you load one of the scifi objects like the control panel that has the blinking lights,their already animated as soon as you add them to the scene,thats what I'm shooting for!

ziggy72 wrote:


Thanks Ziggy,yea I figured that rout, I just wanted it outomatic so everyone could see that it's animated the way mucous did.

Also trying to introduce a new traffic system to muvizu, I want to make it where the lights can blink and change colors with my traffic lights like the ones that comes with muvizu, but Im not sure how it's done, don't mean to sound like a noob, but can someone shed some light on to do that?
edited by clayster2012 on 06/11/2016

Thanks Rocque, cartoonist is the style I'm shooting for with whole set, I'm making more cars later, it seems that my 3d city backdrops is turning into a city set,may have to Chang the name.

Ok I decided to work on a couple of vehicles, two moving trucks that I tried to keep the poly count low, but adding more 3d details for making it possible to put drivers inside may bring the poly count up a little, but still I think they fit the muvizu style perfect!

I figured that we need a coming soon Topic for the store, so people can tell about their ideas, so I'll start first!

In my last post in the New in the muvizu store I mentioned my Idea for 3d City Backdrops, well I been working hard to keep them low poly so there wouldn't be any slow down or lag when working on scene sets, I created this small scene with everything that I had made and a few muvizu items to test the speed, and so for there are no slow downs at all, but I'm still going to add to the scene with more creations to see if it slows down any, here's a couple of pictures to see what I'm trying to do.


a sidewalk view with a character walking in front of the stores.



As you can see I'm trying to bring a new look to muvizu with more detailed scenes without the crawling movements when your trying to work on new scenes, with the 3d city backdrops I had to divide them into smaller sections so scaling larger would be possible but they go together easily to make bigger backdrops, the smaller building and side walks are single objects that can be placed in front of the backdrops, that way you can place them in any order you want, so I guess this will be a complete city construction kit the way it's starting to look, may have to change the name...lol!

so feel free to tell me what you think about this project, would be something you would like to see in the store?