[Kolossus]

Is there anyone here that uses Blender + GtkRadiant and managed to find a solution for making a model fit?

I've tried making a brushwork in GtkRadiant, exported it as .obj and imported in blender, modified that, trying to keep the size, UV mapping and then exporting as .ase into Radiant, but the new model comes huge, so when I scale it down it never really matched the Radiant grid, therefore making it not quite fitting to the pre-existing brushwork.

Any solutions?

By the way, I'm speaking of an architectural model of course. My alternative would be to use the brushes I made and turn that into ase, but I was wondering...

What is more convenient: Having just those brushes and set them as detail or make them a model?

This post has been edited by Kolossus: 23 March 2013 - 12:32 PM

[CMM|banksy]

I'm no expert but maybe try scale down the model in blender?

[NulL]

3dsmax is free for non-commercial use, so you have no excuse for using blender.

I wrote a short guide on doing exactly this a while back:

http://www.urbanterr...nt-integration/

[Kolossus]

On the autodesk site I see no free option, only very expensive ones, unless you mean the Student option? And does it work for students in other countries too? The descriptions on site are kind of vague.

In any case, waiting for a response from you about that, Null, I'd like to find a solution for Blender too, as there are many who use Blender and someone might have encountered this problem. If necessary and possible, I might give 3ds Max a chance, but for now I'll to stick to Blender.

This post has been edited by Kolossus: 23 March 2013 - 03:05 PM

[NulL]

Yea, go with the student option.

[FS HappyDay]

Here's the way I do it:

• build the basic layout with brushes
  
• use q3map2 to convert the brushwork to ase using the "-convert ase" option
  
• import the ase to blender - the scale stays the same
  
• build my models
  
• export models as ase - the scale stays the same

You want to make sure the scale for exporting is set correctly. Some versions of the ase exporter default the scale to 16 instead of 1.

Actually you don't have to go through all that for each model to get the scale right. You can and should set the grid subdivisions in blender to match the one in radiant. In the 3D viewport press n -> "display" -> set "scale" and "subdivisions" to 8. Now you just need one reference model that represents 1 unit in radiant and you can build models that match the radiant grid perfectly.

[Kolossus]

I managed to do it! There was one more thing to do (I don't know if this is enough by itself but I guess it helped): When exporting to ase, in the Save screen, go to the left, where you see the folders, and scroll down. There is a Scale value. I put Scale: 1 and it did the trick. Now the mesh fits exactly the grid in Radiant. :) Maybe also just un-ticking "scale" in the same window would work.

This post has been edited by Kolossus: 23 March 2013 - 05:04 PM