Procedure for creating tgo's from free XFrog plants

[Harvey Birdman]

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[Buzzzzz]

Thanks Man! Just what I needed step by step instructions. I'm a little slow you know.

[Harvey Birdman]

Cool. I'm hoping someone finds it useful. Let me know if you find steps you think should be changed/improved on, if you please.

[Syagre]

At least it has certainly helped me 

[Harvey Birdman]

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[moodflow]

I had to go through this all by myself a few weeks ago, since I didn't know what the heck I was doing.

Where were you then, huh!?!?!?   

Thanks for writing this up.  Its pretty much the same process I use as well.

[Harvey Birdman]

Where were you then, huh!?!?!?  

Sorry, bud!

[chefc]

This is gonna prove to be very useful Thanks for sharing

[Syagre]

By the way, I've also noticed that some objects, despite having the proper scale, do not touch the ground... So, those Xfrog items may need a "translate session" in Poseray before being imported into TG2.
As a newbie sidenote, I'd also mention that the alpha channel checkbox should remain unchecked if the so-called "alpha-textures" are jpg files.

[Harvey Birdman]

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[Syagre]

Thanks for your tips, Harvey.
I had actually made the transformation in the 'Group' tab in Poseray, by means of a translation (for the shrubs I used, it was y=-0.2, after having performed the Y-Z flip axis). It seemed to work just fine as well.

[Harvey Birdman]

Yeah, that's what I meant. You can get the amount it needs to be moved from the Bounding Box data, then go to the 'Groups' tab and do the translation.

[mrwho]

I finally got it to work, it seems I had to check the "invert opacity image" box in TG2 when I used the alpha image. Oh well, at least now it works.

Edit: crap, I can't save it as a tgo. When I do, as soon as it's done loading the tgo file it crashes. any suggestions? There's so spaces in the name or directory.

[Harvey Birdman]

I've no idea! Try quitting TG2, restart it, click the 'Pause' button on the preview window, then try to import it.

If you can't get it to work let me know. I went and converted most, but not quite all, of the freebies a week or two back.

[mrwho]

that worked, but once I go to try and render it, it crashes.