Blender Addon - Export MDL 3.0

[SpiderPig]

File available here : 

Things left to do:

• Embeded Colliders
• Calculate & Export Tangents & BiTangents
• Animation

Issues:

• Won't export a mesh that has no material assigned

 

 

[Josh]

To install this, extract the Zip file contents to Blender/4.1/scripts/addons, then in Blender select the Edit > Preferences > Addons menu, search for "MDL" to find this plugin, and check the box to enable it.

@SpiderPig Since our PBR materials system is derived from glTF, this page might be useful to you:  

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/addons/io_scene_gltf2.html

[SpiderPig]

Download updated with support for exporting children.

• Only need to select the root object.
• All child objects will automatically be exported if they are parented to the root object and export option "Export Children" is set to true.
• Empties can also be exported as a child.  Ultra treats them as a Model without LODs / Meshes.

[SpiderPig]

Updated download.

• Works with 0.9.6
• Fixed a bug where saving a child's position was global instead of local

[Josh]

The physics properties in Blender have some rigid body shapes that map closely to Newton. Might be interesting to you:

[SpiderPig]

Interesting!  I havnt looked at embeded colliders yet.  Is the data the same as the external collider?  With the json then the binary?

[Josh]

It will be binary, although I have not added it yet.

[SpiderPig]

Okay, let me know when it's done and I'll get blender to export it.

[SpiderPig]

Updated.

• Improved speed when exporting large amounts of vertices.