Create a new object mesh.package from an existing mesh

Hi all! Very interesting and long thread and I learned much by reading through it and trying my best to follow.

I'm having an issue though that I did not see mentioned and I did not come up with when Googling. Whenever I try to import my new mesh back into S4S, it either hangs up on the rotating working icon, or I get the error message: "Studio is unable to access C:ProgramData/S4Studio/Scripts/objectexporter.py because it is being used by another program: blender"

I made a cup already and what I have now is a plain shopping bag with handles so it shouldn't be too much different. I'm not sure what is happening. :(

Thank you Bakie! I'm not sure if it is related or not, but I found that after I drastically reduced polygons on the mesh, S4S was able to import it. I will try the same with the first mesh I had problems with later this evening and will report back.

I just reread what I wrote and I actually sounded like I knew what I was talking about when I haven't a clue.   My apologies!  <3

Hi!
I'm having a weird issue... when exporting the mesh, right after saving the export I get an error message saying "Blender has stopped working"
With an error message:


But the thing is that I get the error message regardless of Blender being open or closed.

The mesh gets saved, but is probably corrupt because upon opening it in Blender, the workspace is empty...

I'm trying to export the mesh for the big garden planter box.

I'm trying to make a clone of a toddler toy, using an already existing deco object and am running into a number of problems.

The toddler toys themselves do not have a shadow mesh and only 1 UV map. I decided to try to address this by removing the shadow mesh from the deco object I am using (still has 2 UV maps), changing the cut # and saving the blend. Since this made them identical to shadow LODs, I just reused them.

The textures looked okay in Studio but wonky in the game, although it was usable by toddlers and needed to be resized and maybe slightly repositioned.

So I decided to clone to a regular/child's toy which have the shadow mesh and are usable by toddlers also. I just imported the original meshes and textures into the new package and tested in game. That worked fine.

But I ran into more problems when trying to resize the mesh. When trying to save, I got an error message - "pack file/source path not found."

Could this be due to how I got the object files? I opened the original meshes in Blender, then exported them as object files.

P.S. I am already still using Blender 2.70.

"The tutorial uses a mapped mesh in .obj format but the same basic method will work whether you use an existing .obj, create/map your new mesh in Blender, or import the mapped mesh using some other format that Blender has addons for. The .obj used in this tutorial was previously meshed in Blender and mapped in Milkshape but you can use any 3D editor to create and map your item."

I am just using someone else's mapped mesh by exporting the them as blends in S4S. As I understand the above, they need to object files instead, so converted them by opening the blends in Blender and then exporting them as object files. Those object files are the ones I imported in to Blender to resize. Does that make sense? 


object file

resized mesh

I didn't create the mesh and I don't have it available in any other formats besides what Studio and Blender can provide for me. When I attempt to append the blend that exported from Studio by double clicking on it, I get a list of folders. One is called "mesh" but neither of the 2 meshes in it ("s4studio_mesh_0" and s4studio_mesh_1") show up in Blender when I click on them. SAnd the only .blends I have are the ones I exported from S4S from the original package.

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