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Thanks, still very much in the learning stage with this, but we've a few songs where it could make all the difference by providing a background guitar allowing me to do some fills.

@@Sykogene Great pep talk, I'll be sure to give your encouragement the attention it deserves. 🧐

@@flamewolfjake The only thing I can think of is if you are using an empty, or maybe the parenting is wrong. It's been a while, but I think everything is case sensitive, so maybe check that too? Does my example car import ok, (it should do).

@@ColinTCS When I exported your model it gives me no geometry error for fakeshad and dBody. I know the game had a big update that broke a lot of my maps in the past. maybe they changed how it works now or something.

Nvm! I got it working just using the wrong version of the importer lol

@@flamewolfjake Hmm, that sounds feasible. Just loaded up my test car, the shadow used to be called ProjShad, try renaming that to fakeshad and see if that error goes. The old body is still called dBody and the wheel names are the same, so not sure there. I'm busy with some music stuff today, but I'll fire up my Trackmania Canyon, update it if it asks, (not used it in forever), then see if I get the same issues.

Ahh, wait a minute, found another file with FakeShad in, so I might of been looking at a project which wasn't complete before. Try working with this file, see what happens: drive.google.com/file/d/1ky7BYC4o6JcUN-77sMlMmWQuvcXs-0d8/view?usp=drive_link

Yes, that was deliberate. The only action taking place is scaling and extrude so the screencast keys give the required information.

This is what I use: github.com/mx1001/power_snapping_pies But don't know if it works in 4.x, I'm working in 3.6 and it works fine there.

@@ColinTCS thanks.

@@goldalvarez1046 It's a really useful addon, Machine Tools is another useful addon, it has some neat alignment tools as well. It is paid, but very good. I have the DeusEx version. machin3.gumroad.com/l/MACHIN3tools

Yeah, I did mean to mention the slide function as I have made good use of that too. After doing the video I found the reselect of the last point gave me the merge to last. I'm at the point of putting windings on the machine heads and this is going to make that task much more consistent.

@@ColinTCS Cool, enjoy and thanks for your continued support!

Hmm, odd, I think I was at least running 2.79, though given the github has been updated, chances are I used an earlier version of the script. It's not a script I created, just one that was made available. Just checked, yup, my version has 2.79 as the minimum version whereas the latest has 2.81, even though they are both marked as v1.0.5 Strange though as comparing the scripts, they are the same apart from the minimum version up to that line. Ahh, the register / unregister are different, that could well be it. Used to be "module" now it's class.

There are subtle differences. If you are having trouble loading this script in version 2.79 this might help. To get it to activate I had to change 2 lines. I had to change Line 85 from: "bpy.types.TOPBAR_MT_file_export.append(menu_func)" to: "bpy.types.ITEM_MT_file_export.append(menu_func)" and line 89 from: "bpy.types.TOPBAR_MT_file_export.remove(menu_func)" to: "bpy.types.ITEM_MT_file_export.remove(menu_func)" before I could activate the script.

That is the nature of vornoi, I grant you, I wish there was some way of controlling it.

@@ColinTCS well I meant your video

@@simonw.1223 Care to be more specific? Though do bear in mind I'm just a blender user, not a professional tutor. I don't attempt to replicate the likes of CgGeek et Al. In all honesty, I'm stunned this little video got so many views. Normally, I consider 50 views good for me. 🤓

@@ColinTCS well like if you repeat something it is kinda annoying for the viewer. As I am only a blender user who did in another program some minecraft animation I am not here to judge as I made some shorts and should get going but I distract myself often from the animation to just learn everything in blender like you video.

@@simonw.1223 Yeah, as I say, I'm not a professional. I tend to hit record then just free flow. I'm quite sure most of my videos could be refined, but for the normally low viewing, it's just not worth my time to record over and over and edit. Id say 80 percent of my videos are from personal direct requests, so I very much do them for one person, but share in case someone else finds them useful. I do appreciate the constructive feedback though.

I think what you meant to say was, you didn't understand, as I'm sure you never intended to speak for everyone based on your own personal opinion.

@@ColinTCS I never said I spoke for everyone. However, I've watched videos like your for well over a decade...closer to 20 years. And I can tell you, you are a poor tutorial producer. You had a good video starting out, but getting into a deep modeling section for about 60% of the video is just poor. - Take the comments as - constructive comments and do better.

@@Calixj23 I do have to ask, if my videos are so bad, why on earth do you still watch them for so many years? Oh and FYI, I've only had videos up for 7 years, when I first created this channel, so I am not sure where you got 20 years from. The gods know there's a ton of stuff out there and if mine are not to your liking, by all means don't watch them. As to going into modelling, sometimes I do that deliberately as I personally found it useful watching others as I often learned some hint on a process. These days, most of my videos are in reply to a personal request, so I tend to tailor it accordingly, then if anyone else finds it useful, that is a bonus. I appreciate i ramble at times, I've stopped many a recording because of it, but that is me and I do this purely for fun. I'm not a professional tutor, I don't monetize anything and it's very much a part time hobby. TBH, the chances are, if I did this video now, it would come out quite different as I've learned a lot myself since doing it.

@@ColinTCS ...OK, lets be clear. I've only watched 1 of your videos. The one I commented on. Ive never seen any other of your videos, that I can recall. The 20 years come from the time I have been watched different videos... not your videos. That said, don't take it so defensively. I certainly appreciate criticism. It helps me view what other see. You're too sensitive to someone saying something you did is not the best, and you're too old to be one of those kids that got "participation trophies", which is what one of the things wrong with the world today. You had very interesting video when you started out... then you veered away from your main topic and drifted into modeling. Like you say, there are thousands of "modeling" tutorials out there, so why water down your very interesting video. OK, enough said, I'll take back what I said, that way you can sleep tonight.

@@Calixj23 Duly noted, you have very strong opinions. Fair to say, you have made your point of view very clear. I would be interested to see how you would approach the topic, so I could compare it to this video.

Colin, you had some very good points at the start of the video. I thought it was a really good analysis. What I wouldn't have done is dive into half a video of detailed modeling. This wasn't the place for a modeling video. I would have addressed the concepts you were pointing out at the beginning of the video...which was really good. If you want to show modeling, do maybe 2-3 minutes of it and no more. Then go back to the main topic..."Observations" you noticed based on your experience. I'm glad my "strong opinion" made you stop and look at the video in a different light (I'm hoping you did)... if not, this is all wasted comments. - Listen, go back and watch the. beginning of your video. Then, watch how quickly you fall off the rails. Rethink the video. Maybe take a second try at it by just staying on topic. It would be a really good video.

Thanks, when I can over the next week or so, I'll do a video with the shortcuts and explanation of what I'm doing.

Hey Sujai, I've re-done the video and you can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/bLfDsIh5RRg/v-deo.html Hope it helps you.

Thanks a Lot. :-)

Thanks, it's great fun to play.

You're welcome. If you check out some of my other videos, I cover some of the basic tools I find I use most of the time. ua-cam.com/video/BzM8jsa8nOo/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/1X3ABifmp6s/v-deo.html

@@ColinTCS sure i will😇

Yeah, it's entirely possible there was an issue with shading or materials, I did have a lot of issues as I figured this whole thing out, at the time, I couldn't find anything that went through the whole process. That's the main reason I decided to do this, there is a PDF as well covering the whole thing, (link above), I was so frustrated and hit so many problems that I wanted to help others avoid my pain. 😂

That's where I initially tried, not sure about if all the suspension parts are needed. Been a long time, but I'll check and get back to you.

Ok, just loaded up my TMF and yeah, I'd imported the cars into there as well, so should be the same action.

@@ColinTCS thank you! I'll try then and let u know if i could. I wanted to do smth similar to the sonic i'd seen a while ago but with an among us character

@@mrcoffy1 Yeah, the only thing to watch is the collision box will be a set size, so if the mesh is different proportions, you get issues.

@@ColinTCS the drive link demands access, i already sent permission!

Yes, if the origin is offset, then naturally the mesh itself would appear offset from that position, though depending on what you are doing, that may be the desired effect, for example having something that may rotate around an offset origin point rather than using an empty.

Indeed, we've only had 3 practices together so far, having a great time.

I was lucky enough to get it on a black Friday deal, plays amazing.

Hehe, at the wildlife centre I am a trustee of, I am simply known as the guy with the hair.😂

I've no idea how to do that, sorry.

You're welcome, glad it was useful. 😎

Cheers mate.

I don't have the cars up on CarPark, but you can get all the cars I did as a test in TMF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1VrEjPwVK-8PcM6jaOYJiRcwqOQ7ETwtQ/view?usp=sharing

To be honest, I don't know, the model naming hasn't changed much, though I admit I haven't tried it. I did have an old article all about TMF but it dealt mainly with the stadium car which had all sorts of suspension settings, so I'm not sure they are required for things to work.

Ok, just been doing a google, from the look of it, it still used the 'carcommon' etc as TM2 does, as well as the sbody and wheel naming, so my guess is, you can probably pull the same models into TMF.

Thank you for your response!

No worries, I had a look at the cars I made and imported, it definitely looks like the same zip file format will work, so I'd say go for it. 😎👍

Okay, I've done some further investigation. The process IS different for TMF, however, most of the work is hte same, there' jsut a slight naming change in parts and the import is done via help->custom->car model from the TMF front menu. The files the zip should contain are named differently, but the process to create them is more or less ok. You need this script: github.com/raandoom/blender_export_tmf/blob/master/3ds_export_tmf.py To export a specific 3DS file and you must run this from Blender 2.79, not Blender 2.8 or greater. I am going through hte process myself and once I get a good result, I will probably do a specific video on this as well if it works ok. This URL gives a good guide overall: web.archive.org/web/20150814205431/en.tm-wiki.org/wiki/Creating_Custom_Cars_with_Freeware

Thanks mate. :-)