Blender General Questions

[semory]

oh, vertices not connected to a mesh. for games it's common to use one vertex buffer and have multiple meshes that use that buffer. currently i'm just copying the entire vertex and index buffers for each mesh but it oftentimes leave a ton of stray points. it can be fixed easily in Blender using Clean Mesh plugin, but anything I myself have come up with involves iterating through the entire index buffer, finding out which vertices are unused, creating another vertex and index buffer and an extra dictionary/array that maps old indices to new ones, etc. etc. was hoping you'd say something like, "use the DeleteVertex function stupid ha ha ha hahahaha."

[FigureSculptor]

was hoping you'd say something like, "use the DeleteVertex function stupid ha ha ha hahahaha."

Nope, not that I know of. MeshLab has this type of functionality - I think they call it something like "Delete stray vertices" or some such, and there's also something like "delete zero area faces" or some such. It's got a lot of good stuff for fixing and repairing meshes. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to export to MeshLab and back to Blender without losing vertex groups.

The types of vertices you describe ehould be non-manifold vertices, though, so the method I described earlier might work: make sure no vertices are selected, press ctrl-opt-shift-M, then de-select ones you want to keep, then X to delete. Many game meshes are manifold except at certain seams (though some are just a mess ). Probably want to remove duplicates with a 0.00 tolerance before doing that.

Otherwise, nope, don't know of a magic button for that.

[FigureSculptor]

So, I stumbled upon this feature today - "Select Loose Verts/Edges". Sounds like what you were asking about. I don't know if 2.49b has it, but it's in the Select menu of the 3D view in edit mode in the current 2.6 version.

[ProtocolX27]

Anyone ran into a situation in which hitting 'Tab' to switch to Edit mode on an armature would cause Blender 2.49 to crash?

[Dazzy]

Sometimes Blender does crash when going into edit mode on armatures. I dunno why... it just does xD

[ProtocolX27]

Sometimes Blender does crash when going into edit mode on armatures. I dunno why... it just does xD

Is there a work around, it seems to do it consistently on some models, but not at all on others. I'd rather not have to nuke bones and rebuild them in notepad,

[Dazzy]

I dunno, I think there is a reason it is doing it but I cant remember why D:

[Runa]

That crash happened to me three or four times. Annoying XD

Anyway, too lazy to read all the previous messages... so sorry if this has beek asked already:

"Change bones number from 95 to 90"

This is what the GeMeshAsciiToBin tells me after I export a .mesh.ascii from blender. No error messages into the program though... what can I do? D:

[ProtocolX27]

Haven't seen that one. Have you tried the other exporter without the 'Ge' prefix? I don't fully know what the difference between GeMeshAsciiToBin and MeshAsciiToBin are...

[raidergale]

It's completely normal, the Blender exporter screws up the bones number in the mesh.ascii, so you would normally have to change that by manually counting the number of bones with notepad... GeMeshAscii does that automatically