How to edit vertex points in Blender

[SharpHackz200]

I know somebody made this tutorial already but this is for the people who still don't understand how to edit vertex points with New Blender
What you need:
Any version of Blender (I am using a new one)
DasDonkey vertexbox -Don't download any DasDonkey vertex box. you have to use Ms. Spinda's Vertex Box
http://www.mediafire.com/?8536rjlmk9ewqpq
Brawlbox

Video Tutorial
How to edit vertex points with new blender



Written Tutorial
1:Open up BrawlBox
Go look for the polygon you want to edit
I am editing polygon 9 of Peach


2:Expand the polygon folder under your character's model.
Look at the vertexset number of the polygon you wanna edit
Peach's Hair is 8

3:Expand the Vertices folder and look for a file that have an id that
have the number of the polygon vertexset

4:After you have found the vertices that have the id number of the polygon
you look at the polygon folder. Export it

5:Export the model of the character,too
name it model.mdl0

6:Now Open up DasDonkey Vertex Box and Click "Create 3ds File"

7:Open up blender(any version)

8:You could delete the lamp, cube, and camera if it's bothering from editing


9:Go to File>Import>3d Studio(.3ds)

10:Look for the 3ds file that DasDonkey Vertes Box Created

11:Right Click on any dot.
You can see that they all turn yellow

12:Go to Object Mode
and there's a list.
(You have to do step 11 in order for the list to come up)


13:Pick Edit mode and all dots will turn fat

14:Right click on any dots you want to move
(Yes it is normal that all of the other dots will be black except for the one you right click)
Or you could just select them by group
Hold Ctrl and then Hold left click.
And as you move the mouse you will see a
Lasso coming out from the pointer of the mouse.
It looks like this

You highlight vertex points with Lasso select in order to move them in group

15:After you are done editing the vertex points export as a
wavefront(.obj)
Export it in your DasDonkey folder

16:Close Blender and open up Anim8tor
from DasDonkey Folder

17:Drag the .obj file (NOT the .mtl file)
into anim8tor

18:Export it over the 3ds File that DasDonkey made

19:Open up DasDonkey Vertex Box and Click insert 3ds on MDL0

20: It will ask you for the MDL0 Offset
Go to brawlbox look for the vertices that you edited.
on the right side of BrawlBox after you click the vertices you edited it has some stuff.
Look for MDL0 offset and in right side you see a number

Red=The word MDL0 offset
Blue=The number on the right side of "MDL0 offset"

21:Highlight the Number(Peach's Hair MDL0 offset is 221856) that is circled blue on the picture and
Sometimes If you highlight the number the word "MDL0 offset" goes with it and sometimes it doesn't
Now press Ctrl+c

22:Now remember DasDonkey ask for the mdl0 offset.
Click the blank space where the number goes.
And Click Ctrl+v

23:Click ok and it will make two files
These two files are called
ModelOriginal.mdl0-In case you mess up
Model.mdl0-The one you edited in Blender

24:Right Click on the model of you character you're editing in Brawlbox
and replace it with "model.mdl0" in you DasDonkey Folder

25:Preview it and you will see changes of the polygon you edited.
Here is what Peach's Ponytail Looks Like When i made the it longer in Blender


I am glad I could help the people who want to use Blender instead of 3ds max :)

[Ryanboy50]

Thanks so much for this tutorial :)

[SharpHackz200]

Your Welcome :)

[jprunner]

Thanks so much for this! It took me forever to figure out what I was doing wrong and I'm glad that I found this one!

[SharpHackz200]

Your Welcome jpealver  :)

[Epiccip]

i tried to run dasdonkey and it said java run time environment not found. how do i fix this?

[SharpHackz200]

i tried to run dasdonkey and it said java run time environment not found. how do i fix this?

Do you have java runtime environment in your computer
if it doesn't install it
here
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

If it still didn't work try this.
Here are some ways to stop that.
Restart your computer
Re-download the vertex box
Turn your computer off for 30 min. then turn it on again :)

[rickyrussian15]

thank you for the tut

[Marioandlink123]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR USING THE NEW BLENDER... i thought i had to go to an older versiion to unterstand what was happening in the other tutorials xD

[SharpHackz200]

Your welcome :).
;)
Post Merge: August 23, 2012, 01:10:46 AM
Oh by the way there are some errors when editing these polygons
Samus' face
Dedede's coat
Sheik's arms
Peach's crown
Link's Hat

It's the same errors like in Ms. Spinda's / Lecapria's Anim8tor vertexing tutorial

To edit this polygond that gives error you need fragmosoft.. credit goes to GameWatching
http://www.fragmosoft.com/downloads/

Put your DDV.3ds file first in Fragmosoft and export is as an OBJ
Import the that OBJ in blender and you can edit it there.. and this polygons i told you that gives error can be edited when the DDV.3ds goes through Fragmosoft but you still need to exprt it as an OBJ so Anim8tor can read it and export it over your DDV.3ds.

[Epiccip]

thanks for the tip on java das donkey works perfectly now.

[Tyshy]

Great tutorial but where do I find das donkey, mega upload is diwn