Changes to "How to use" wiki page

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Import-Export of Blender model from/to SMF model format

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Changes to "How to use" wiki page #25

Closed angelwire closed 4 months ago

angelwire commented 2 years ago

Just a couple quick suggestions for the how to use wiki page.

I think it would be useful to mention SMF's bone scaling limitation in the wiki.
The armature modifier in Blender can be changed to better reflect SMF's dual quaternion approach by checking the "Preserve Volume" option in the armature modifier: https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0QDQGJQG-F02MS5XQW6R/image.png

bartteunis commented 2 years ago

Added some information on the "Preserve Volume" option here: https://github.com/blender-to-gmstudio/blender-to-smf/wiki/How-To-Use#armature-modifier-settings

bartteunis commented 2 years ago

For the first suggestion: do you mean the limitation on armatures where there is a difference in scale (#22)? The fact that SMF uses dual quaternions and so cannot store a scale factor? Or something else?

angelwire commented 2 years ago

I was referring to the fact that SMF uses dual quaternions so it doesn't store the scale factor. I didn't tell my animator about the bone scaling limitations, so when he scaled the bones in blender and wasn't seeing results in the game he thought it was a glitch.

bartteunis commented 4 months ago

Also added a paragraph on bone scaling limitations now over here: https://github.com/blender-to-gmstudio/blender-to-smf/wiki/How-To-Use#bone-scale.