Blender N/B Import/Export Plugin 2023-01-03

[ulteq]

ulteq submitted a new resource:

Blender Import/Export Plugin - blender, plugin, import, export

Features:

• Full vertex group support
• Automatic column alignment
• Sophisticated vertex position rounding
• Full preservation of the original truck file
• Automatic beam sorting based on the vertex groups
• All node, beam and cab options are preserved during import / expo
• All set_node_defaults, set_beam_defaults and set_beam_defaults_scale entries are preserved

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[ulteq]

ulteq updated Blender Import/Export Plugin with a new update entry:

Some minor improvements

- Automatically enables the debug mode (required for showing vertex indices without additional plugins)
- Correct axis orientation during import / export
- Better preservation of the existing truck file
- Better automatic beam sorting
- Better beam group names
- Fixed some typos

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[masfilip]

I must say, you did very good job Having good .truck exporter is important for RoR, because it can attract more players to RoR and make their "playing around with RoR" a lot easier. And your plugin definitely does this.
I did quick test and it seems to work very well. There is only one thing, it seems that it can only work with .truck files. So if I want to work on for example .airplane or .boat file, it doesn´t load. So if you add support for other formats in Rigs of Rods it will be perfect
Here is exact list of formats in RoR:

.truck, .car, .boat, .airplane, .train, .machine, .trailer, .load, .fixed

I think that´s all

 

[RockCrwlr]

Sorry to bump this but I have a question regarding this plugin. I used to be very active in this game about 4 years ago and was using 2.49b. I was using the old .truck importer and there was a plugin that came with it that showed the the node numbers while you were in edit mode. Is there an update for that as well or is that a plugin of the past that won't work in the newer versions of Blender? I believe it was called vertexoverlay.py.

 

[ulteq]

ulteq updated Blender Import/Export Plugin with a new update entry:

Fixed the handling of whitespaces in vertex groups

Vertex groups are now comma separated.

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[ulteq]

@kch_7three I personally use this plugin:

Spoiler

But you can also do it without any external plugin:

1. Enter 'Edit' mode
2. Press 'N'
3. Scroll down to 'Mesh Display'
4. Enable 'Edge Info: Indices'

 

[ulteq]

ulteq updated Blender Import/Export Plugin with a new update entry:

Allow any file extension

File extension filter:

*.truck, *.car, *.boat, *.airplane, *.train, *.machine, *.trailer, *.load, *.fixed

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[Its_Sluss]

how do you import .mesh files?

 

[CuriousMike]

how do you import .mesh files?

https://docs.rigsofrods.org/tools-tutorials/blender-mesh-editing/

 

[Austin]

how do you import .mesh files?

This plugin is for working with RoR vehicle files, not meshes. See the above post.

 

[ulteq]

ulteq updated Blender Import/Export Plugin with a new update entry:

Export formatting fixes

• Fixes the set_beam_defaults formatting during export (after edge deletion)
• Removes duplicate ;grp: lines after the node / beam sections

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[ulteq]

ulteq updated Blender Import/Export Plugin with a new update entry:

Export plugin improvement

• Exporting no longer modifies the current object mode
• New edges now inherit existing set_beam_defaults (fixes the empty line issue)

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[traviman]

Hello I'm new to this blender stuff, but not to the old ROReditor and trying to figure this all out. I've got the plug in installed onto the older Blender. But some things tell me "not yet implemented" am I behind on this stuff or is it all working now? Cause I have no idea. The last time I messed around with this was when ROR was at 0.3.8 or .38 or whatever is was. And also does this plugin work with the latest version of Blender or does I have to use the 2.79b version like the Docs page says? I'm so lost right now and YouTube isn't any help for node editing. any advice would help. Thanks

 

[CuriousMike]

@traviman This should answer any questions you have: https://docs.rigsofrods.org/tools-tutorials/visual-editors/#blender

 

[LogWhat1]

Can this be used to import submeshes?

 

[CuriousMike]

Can this be used to import submeshes?

It can import/export submeshes, but currently the UV coordinates aren't supported.

 

[LogWhat1]

It can import/export submeshes, but currently the UV coordinates aren't supported.

Aw, well that sucks, I was planning to port the submeshes to a game.

 

[LogWhat1]

I found out something odd about this add-on: It keeps the Blender System Console open when you close out Blender.

 

[LogWhat1]

It was tedious, but I did it:

 

[Vido]

I'm reporting that it does not import .truck N/B correctly. Here is RoR 2.49 and importer 0.6.7



and here is ulteq RoR Importer 0, 0, 1