Blender

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The Arx Addon for Blender is in a very early state of development.
Most features are incomplete or don't work properly.
Expect bugs and keep your blend files

How to use

• Download the latest snapshot Development_snapshots
• Unpack the zip file
• Copy the plugins/blender/arx_addon directory into your blender addons directory.
  • https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/getting_started/installing/configuration/directories.html
• Depending on your blender version, 64 or 32 bit
  • 32 bit version the bin/x86/ArxIO.dll file to the arx_addon directory
  • 64 bit version the bin/x64/ArxIO.dll file to the arx_addon directory
• Start blender and activate the addon in the preferences
• Unpack all pack files to a directory e.g. /home/USER/arx-data
• Set this directory in the blender addon configuration

State of the Addon

• Not optimized and might degrade general blender performance
• The least incomplete/buggy part is static non animated objects

FTL Models

• import/export mostly works for Static/Fixed models
• Some data gets lost on import/export (Normals (TODO: expand this))
• Double sided faces are not properly supported
• Materials approximating the in game look are not implemented
• Bone import/export only partially implemented
• Model variants, head Swapping, body swapping for armor etc is not implemented
• Face property editing is only partially implemented

Animation

• Only import is implemented
• Only partially implemented
• Animation files have to be manually matched for compatible models

Scenes

• Only import is implemented
• Object rotation is buggy
• Proper object to scene linking is incomplete
• Camera paths are not implemented