https://yadi.sk/d/u4HifL6y34yVih

Put these files in your folder. I corrected model and renamed it (homunculus.mesh). Now all should be all right if you import this mesh.

Hi @Kva3imoda can I ask your opinion pls?

I have positioned the various Homunculus pieces over the HUM_M model...

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But I got excited and did all the positioning first , so I wanted to check before proceeding...

1. It says I'm supposed to join the meshes, but I'm not sure which to join together.  SixShot's tutorial seems to say to join the new mesh with the whole HUM_M mesh ("In object mode, select both meshes, making sure vanquisherM is active and join them (ctrl + J)"). 

2. Since I'm working with a bare HUM_M model (no armor) I'm thinking I shouldn't join anything.  Instead shouldn't I only assign the meshes to bones?

3. I did join together some of the new mesh pieces.  Like, I joined the left and right boot together.  Is this right?

4. I used some new names in the OUTLINER, like Homunculus/Boots, etc. Will these become the SUBMESH names?  Is every line in the OUTLINER a submesh?

5. I noticed there are 2 "bone structures"...

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Will I be deleting the structure from the added Homunculus model, leaving only the HUM_M structure?

6. A related / reverse question - will I be deleting the model mesh of HUM_M, leaving just the Homunculus model mesh (like a "shell" over the bone structure)?

Sorry for all these dumb questions! But I am very excited by all this!

Oh and yes, the other meshes seem to import fine...

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Thanks v much Kva for reminding me of your tutorial Yes i will use it AND i will start with fewer pieces as you suggest. If i have questions i will ask for your guidance, i hope u won't mind!

Yes i positioned all the pieces in edit mode. Their "origins" are all the same as the HUM_M mesh. I made copies of the Homunculus mesh, removed the parts (vertices?) which i would not re-position and positioned/scaled/rotated what was left. So in the outliner, each "Homunculus/..." is an edited copy of the original import.

Thanks for your kind words and encouragement! It means a lot to me coming from u!

Thanks again Kva! Today i just kept reading through your rigging tutorial, because i couldn't actually open Blender at work

I will find the time to work up to my first export attempt tomorrow. I expect it to not work, but i'll make sure i learn along the way

Thanks so much @Kva3imoda and @Anarch16sync for the tips! I see @Vkoslak is back around too  hope you guys don't mind if I ask so many questions

As suggested by Kva, I am working on exporting ONLY the TL1 Destro Heavy Plate helmet to TL2...

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Based on the ENVATO tut linked by Kva, I tried making the Mesh a child of the Armature, using the "with automatic weights" option.  But the helmet Mesh vertices would not "stick together" during posing, I guess because different parts of the helmet Mesh were reacting to different bones (based on proximity?)

I also saw tuts which said to join (ctrl + J) the new Mesh part with the base model Mesh.  But instead I tried just joining the helmt Mesh to the Hum_M/Scalp Mesh of the base model.  To my surprise, the result was very satisfactory.

Sorry but what might I be doing wrong?

Try to export only one part/mesh - hand or foot.

I'm not sure if this will help, but never select a skeleton.

Now the issue seems to be the Submesh Materials...

In Blender the Submeshes are like this...



So in the .MATERIAL file, the Submeshes and Materials for both HuM_DHPlate/Scalp and HuM_DHPlate/Helmet are in there...

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material HuM_DHPlate/Scalp
{
        technique
        {
                pass
                {
                        ambient 0.588000 0.588000 0.588000
                        diffuse 0.588000 0.588000 0.588000
                        specular 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0
                        emissive 0.400000 0.400000 0.400000
                        texture_unit
                        {
                                texture Face1.dds
                        }
                }
        }
}
material HuM_DHPlate/Helmet
{
        technique
        {
                pass
                {
                        ambient 0.745098 0.745098 0.745098
                        diffuse 0.745098 0.631373 0.529412
                        specular 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0
                        emissive 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
                        texture_unit
                        {
                                texture Destroyer_HeavyPlate_Helm.dds
                        }
                }
        }
}

If I leave both Submesh/Material blocks in the file, it is textured like this...

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But if I remove the material HuM_DHPlate/Scalp block, it is textured like this...

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I already tried making the old TL1 texture file Destroyer_HeavyPlate_Helm.dds into a DXT3 compression .DDS file (it was DXT1), but this did not help.

I'm thinking I should I remove HuM_DHPlate/Scalp from the Mesh itself inside Blender...

Any ideas would be very appreciated

That's because you have two materials in the HUM_DHPlate/helmet mesh, the dusho exporter won't export multiple materials for one mesh, and will only work with the first one, also, you don't need to export all the hum_m base model with your helmet, if you only export the helmet and the skeleton It will work and you are going to have a smaller file.

You should remove the HUM_DHPlate/scalp material from the helmet mesh, and that should do it.

Also if someone knows something about scripting it would be awesome to modify the dusho script so it can export multiple materials per mesh.