I'm happy to finally announce a version of the 3DC<>Messiah AppLink, developed by Greg Malick. Greg has been worked diligently on this, and I'm happy to see it's release! Huge thanks to Greg for all of his hard work on this project.
So without further ado...
To Install: Decompress the file. Within are two files folders ('Modules' & 'Plugins'). These folders must be placed with in the root of your Messiah directory. Be certain to restart 3DC if you have done this while it was running or the plugin wont run. (Installing is the same for both 32 & 64 bit versions).
To Use: You should now see an armature for 3DC in your Messiah viewport near the top left hand corner.
Clicking the armature will bring up all of the functions which you can perform with the plugin. By clicking any of these operations the currently active mesh will be sent to 3DC for whichever operation you selected. (Note, you must have a mesh selected in the outline/hierarchy panel or you'll get an error message telling you to select one.) Once you have finished your work in 3DC and to send the mesh back to Messiah, in 3DC go to File>Open in original app. You'll then return to Messiah, however you'll notice Messiah is prompting a manual reload of the mesh.
Unfortunately Messiah 4.5 doesn't have a way to automatically load a mesh. To manually load a mesh, in Messiah go to File>Multiply Items>Replace. In the file requester, select the file you are sending back (which will be in whatever directory you have it saved to). That's all there is to it.
Configuration: To access the configuration for the plugin, in Messiah, navigate to the 'Customize' tab, and in the drop down list you will see a '3DC AppLink' option. Once selected you will see a number of options within this panel. Here you can choose:
- Whether or not 3DC will start up if it is not already open (if this is off and 3DC is not open, the plugin will not function. 3DC must manually be started in this case.)
- Image directory for your textures.
- Turn on/off any of the armature functions.
- Choose the 3DC directory. This option is important, be sure to set this before using the plugin if you have multiple installations of 3DC and you wish you use a specific version.
- If you use 64bit 3DC or Messiah, use it's 64bit counterpart. Likewise for 32bit versions.
Some things to note:
- This is considered a "Release Candidate", you may still find a few bugs. If so, please report them here in this thread!
- If you require a SubD mesh to paint on, when sending the mesh to 3DC, turn off SubDs in Messiah but then Sub divide the mesh upon importing. Otherwise the continued placement of the vertices will be off, if sent back and forth more than once.
- Be sure to install the correct version for which you'll be using with Messiah. (Install the 32bit version of the plugin for Messiah 32bit, 64bit for 64bit). Using Messiah 32bit with 3DC 64bit works with no errors. And vice versa.
EDIT: This new build works on XP with no issues.
Attached Files
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3DC-AppLink 32bit v4-5.zip 75.91K
136 downloads
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3DC-AppLink 64bit v4-5.zip 76.25K
147 downloads
