Importing colored Blender Models

Importing colored Blender Models

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CMDRJosh85
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Importing colored Blender Models

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So, let's assume I want to use a free model from the web, which come in .dae or .3ds formats, readable from blender. And these models already come with different colored materials, which could save me a lot of time of texturing. Is there any way to import such colored model to Spring? @FLOZi told me there is not such support natively. But, is there a way to generate a script for doing this? Any thoughts?
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Re: Importing colored Blender Models

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It depends if the models have a UV map, and if they have a texture to go with that UV map.

If there is no UV map, I think you'll have to make one in Blender.
If there is no texture, then there are ways to make a texture from the the materials and/or colors you see on your model.
One way to do this is called Bake or Bakeing.

This might get you started (although this example bakes the shadow tints, and you might not want that).
https://blender.stackexchange.com/quest ... o-my-uvmap
or this one:
https://blender.stackexchange.com/quest ... in-blender
or this:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/20 ... ngine.aspx
There is a lot of documentation. Hopefully a bit more up to date then my examples. (There might even be add-ons that let you do it with a single click of a button; not sure)

I don't think Spring models absolutely need to have a UV map + texture, but i think is is the best way to give colour to your models.
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CMDRJosh85
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Re: Importing colored Blender Models

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Thanks. Yes, I got this kind of replies everywhere so was my approach at the end. UV unwrapping, UV mapping and texturing.
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