003C2_EasyMakeBlend_manEN

Overview
This manual is designed for people who were still confused after reading the 003C Blender manual.
Creating an entire character from scratch is rather time and labor intensive. However inserting a model is relatively simple.
This manual is more simple than the ones for MAYA, Softimage or 3ds Max.

Your original char data
Export dae
Export dotXSI
Put animation by trans and rot (=FK)
Export dotXSI
fmdl
fskl
fmot
Adding a character who's look you designed is easy!
* No need to worry about shaders
* No need to worry about skeletons
* Just using whatever data you created will work
Your char
On EF-12
簡単
Create flow

Advantages & Drawbacks
Don’t need to worry about shaders & materials
The skeleton shape is up to you
Only requires one model weighted bones to work
It won’t look that good
You will have to make motions for your bone setup
Advantages
Drawbacks
※minimum number of motion is 10.
You can download minimum motion sample here:
[DOWNLOAD]>[MISC]>[Minimum Fightstyle package]

Explanation using Sample
We’ll use a dog-like model for this example. Thanks to @fsfs_hri for the help!

Necessary specification
When creating a model, all bone rolls must be set to 0. Otherwise this can cause problems when making motions.

Install addon for Blender
We provide an exporter add-on for Blender. Go to the official site and navigate to [download] > [Tool and converter] to get it for free.
- How to install
You need to install the addon for it to work.
You can run it from a Text editor, but you won’t be able to quit.
・Installing automatically
File >User Preferences > Addons tab > Install from File
select [ef12_model_export.py]
・ Manual installation
put [ef12_model_export.py] in the 2.66/scripts/addons folder of your Blender installation

Export model
Model spec requires only a color texture. Don’t worry about normal or dent tex.
After you finish, export a COLLADA(.dae) and then convert the .dae to .fmdl (fmdl is EF-12 native)
Note:
Max number of weight is 4 per POLYGON. If any vertex has over 5 weight targets, the related polygon will be invisible.

Export skeleton
You can use the same data for the skeleton, just remember to export using dotXSI.
Use the [export skeleton] addon to export an.xsi file, then convert .xsi to .fskl (.fskl is EF-12 native format)

Export motion
The same is true for motion. You can make motion data for your char model directly and export an .xsi file using the [motion export] addon.
Don’t forget to convert.xsi to .fmot

Check on foolviewer
Put the three files in foolviewer and run.
That’s it!
→ choose these files using the in-viewer menu.

Note
If you hope to get more detail, see official website. [HOW TO CREATE]>[Character Model]>[Create model by Blender].http://ef-12.com/?page_id=2281(Currently in Japanese)
This manual is the most simple but the quality level is limited. Think Dreamcast graphics.

…one more thing!
We recommend adding more schematics to your character model (see next slide).
If you handled this guide up to now, you should be fine!