Mesh Editor

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Tools 3 Tutorials 3.1 Basic Tutorials 3.2 Advanced Tutorials 3.3 Multi-Editor Tutorials 3.4 Miscellaneous Tutorials 4 Requests & Questions

Introduction

The Mesh Editor is probably one of the most frequently used, and most feature rich editors in Serious Editor 2, besides perhaps the World Editor. If you're looking forward to mapping or modelling with Serious Editor 2, look no further. On this page you will find all the information you'll need to give you a head start with the Mesh Editor in Serious Editor 2!

To give you an idea of how you can use the Mesh Editor, I'll explain what it can do. To put it really simple, meshes are simply models created in Serious Editor 2. But these don't just include decorative models. The Mesh Editor can be used to create Terrains, Props, Enemies, vehicles, etc. But that's not all. In the Mesh Editor you can not only model, you can also assign shaders, uvmaps, LOD's, weightmaps and so forth, to an existing or new mesh. The tools at your disposal are amazing. They range from uvmapping tools that make your life a lot easier, to painting tools with which you can paint grass, sand and even crumbs on your terrains.

To conclude this all, I can just tell you one thing: Take your time in learning this editor. It is entirely different from Serious Editor 1, the tool that probably matches the Mesh Editor most, is Lightwave 3D, but don't worry. It may take some time for you to get used to this editor, even if you've worked with other editors before, including Serious Editor 1 and Lightwave 3D. But in the end it's all worth it. What you see in front of you when you first start up Serious Editor 2, is a very versatile editor, which can be used to make your wildest dreams a reality!

Tools

This section contains informations and how-to's on the different tools available inside the mesh editor.

• Mapping tool

Tutorials

Below you fill find the current collection of tutorials for the Mesh Editor. Feel free to add new tutorials or fix/add to others.

Basic Tutorials

Note: these tutorials have been written with the assumption that you have no previous experience with using Serious Editor 2.

• Moving The Camera
• Mesh Editor Interface
• Simple mesh
• First Room Tutorial (including basic uvmapping)
• Connecting Two Rooms
• Basic Editing Tools (Drag Align, Bevel, Extrude, Knife, Lathe, etc.)

Advanced Tutorials

• Advanced Mesh Editing
• Advanced UVMapping
• Terrain Editing Tutorial

Multi-Editor Tutorials

• Crumbs Tutorial (Mesh Editor specific: painting terrain and mask textures)
• Animating a Model (Mesh Editor specific: assigning weightmaps)
• Vehicles (Mesh Editor specific: assigning weightmaps)

Miscellaneous Tutorials

• Texture mapping controls

Requests & Questions

If you have a question or request, please look closely on this page and use the search function to make sure your question hasn't been asked before. If there is no answer available to your question or your request has not been filled out yet, please place your requests and questions here in the following format for fast processing:

  Question:/Request: <insert request>.
  Name: <Your name or nick>

An answer should be given shortly with more information. Please to not expect an answer too soon, though. None of us are being payed to do this (although I wish ;)).