Exporting Simple Non-Human Avatar from 3D Studio Max

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This file contains a simple non-human avatar with anims, see it for example: http://www.realxtend.org/files/rex_simplecharacter_export.zip

• Create your bone structure
  • Default avatars use biped but you can make your own skeletons if you want to
• Create your mesh
• Use the 3ds max's skin modifier to skin the mesh to the rig
• Animate your mesh

• Export settings when using Ogre Exporter - 1.19LC animation tab
  • Select 'Export Skeleton'
  • Name animations (defaults are Walk, Stand, Crouch, Run, Hover and Fly)
  • Select frame count in the 'Frames' option
  • Click Add for each animation
• Select export location and click Export

• Convert the exported file into a mesh by using the xml2mesh commandline tool
• Open the converted mesh with RexMeshTool to make sure everything works as intented:
  • Animations show up in the animations dropdown box
  • Size is correct
  • Rotation is correct
• If everything works fine save settings and exit the RexMeshTool

• To see your avatar in avatar generator you have to move the following files into correct directories withing the viewer installation
  • YourAvatar.mesh & YourAvatar.skeleton into media\models\avatar
  • YourAvatar.material into media\materials\scripts
  • Body textures into media\materials\textures\avatar_body
  • Face textures into media\materials\textures\avatar_face