I'd love to get this working, but I've never managed to properly convert the individual vertex normal values in an SMD into sharp edges.

The good news is that there are currently efforts underway to add custom normal support to Blender that will fix this issue once and for all.

Fixed.

This is caused by having an armature with no bones. It'll be fixed in the next release. Until then, delete the armature.

This happens when a group includes only objects that appeared earlier in the export. I've fixed it and will release the changes in a larger 2.1 update that should be arriving in the next few days.

My test has 17 meshes attached to various bones on the scout, compiled as bodygroups, and works just fine. I'm not going to go any further in guessing what's wrong: I need a repro case.

You can't say that there's nothing interesting in the DMX files just because the importer and studiomdl don't pick anything up from them. I'd like to pass a human eye over their contents.

I can't reproduce this problem. Please try to reproduce it in a new file, or cut parts out of the Scout file until you're happy to upload it somewhere. Sending the DMX files would be helpful too.

Use "." as the subfolder.

Originally posted by #zx.pr0jk:

I'm not sure how I can change the length of the bone without moving the tails though.

Sorry, I meant don't move them in any other axis.

The position of the tail defines the bone's Y axis, so in a Z-up model they will be pointing 90 degrees away from where you might expect.

Originally posted by GoG®|Aygor ECO:

@Artfunkel: Is there possibility to change default spheres in SMD tools (in script) to something like this

It's entirely possible. The downside is that anything like that will make it very obvious that the child relationship lines are leaving the bone from the wrong position, which is confusing for new users. Plus, in general I don't think people importing existing models care which axis is which.

With that said, there's no reason not to add arrows as an importer option. It'll be in the next release.

No thanks, it's a very obscure problem.

That's normal. The way Blender handles bones is very weird, and they need to be short to prevent the parent/child relationship lines from becoming confusing. Outside edit mode you should be seeing spheres, not those lines?

You can change the length of the bones by scaling them with Pivot Point set to "Individual Origins". Just don't move the tails or you'll mess up their rotation.