[Art] How to make 3D objects for Toribash (Using Blender)

~DISCLAIMER: THE ORIGINAL TUTORIAL WAS MADE BY EZETH, I AM RE-MAKING IT FOR BLENDER SINCE HE USES MAYA.

This is a tutorial on how to make 3D objects for toribash, the items will only display locally, so you can see them in-game, but others won't be able to see your items when you go on multiplayer. This is mainly for art, videos and fun.

This tutorial will be mostly focused around Blender, which is a free open-source program.

Spoiler: 1. Software

1. Software

1. Software

There are many programs that can make a 3D object. For this I will be using Blender.
Another Popular choice is Maya.

2. Basic Controls

Upon Opening Blender, you will see a few things, first a message, just click away from it. You will also see a cube, camera, and Lamp.

Big pic

Delete the cube by pressing the "Delete" or the "x" key and selecting delete on the menu that pops up. Don't worry about the camera or lamp for now.

Press and hold middle mouse button, you will rotate the camera.
Press and hold shift+Middle mouse button = Pan the camera.
Scroll the Scroll wheel = Zoom in and out.
Press the "1" key on the NUMPAD = View from the Y axis.
Press the "3" key on the NUMPAD = View from the X axis.
Press the "7" key on the NUMPAD = view from the Z axis.
Press the "5" key on the NUMPAD = Toggle between orthogonal and user perspective views.
Right Click an object = Select it.
Press the "a" key = Deselect all objects.
Press the "s" key = Scale an object. (If you press "z" , "x" or "y" during the process, you will lock movement to that axis)
Press the "g" key = move an object.(If you press "z" , "x" or "y" during the process, you will lock movement to that axis)

The little red and white circle is the origin. This is where your objects will spawn. If you left click, you move the origin. Should, at any time, you want it to return to the center press Shift+C

There are many more controls, but these are basic ones + camera movement, to get you started.

3. Making the 3D object

3. Making the 3d object

It's good practice to work in Orthogonal mode. So hit "5" on the numpad

First we will make a sphere, this will represent the head of tori/uke.
Press SHIFT+C to ensure the origin is in the center.
Go to the bottom left of Blender, and click "Add > Mesh> UV Sphere"

To scale the sphere so it is the same size as a tori/uke head, select the sphere, by right-clicking on it, hit the "s" key for scale and type ".2".

Your scene should now look like this:

so now that you have the tori head reference set up you want to start making the object, since the possibilities of object making are endless, and its a long process to be good at modeling, so there is no way I can cover everything about Blender in this tutorial, but here are some good starter Videos

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And once you are comfortable with the basic controls. Check out this tutorial, to make a teacup. It teaches you some good techniques.
Part 1:

Part 2:

4. File format and naming

4. File format and naming

For this I made a halo.

Now we want to export the halo.
Go to file>export>Wavefront(.obj)

Export it to a folder in Toribash custom.
(I use a folder called 3d, since no-one has that name)
So the path for my folder would be Steam\SteamApps\common\Toribash\custom\3d\halo.obj

Hit "Export obj" in the top right.

5. preview it in toribash

There are 2 ways to do it.

Manual Load

Originally Posted by IBlackleon

Command code:
/obj load "directory" "player number" "bodypart" "color id" "alpha" "dynamic" "partless" "ghosted"
DIRECTORY= Lets say you put your model named "hat.obj" in "Toribash/custom/uke" folder. You will write; custom/uke/hat.obj
PLAYER NUMBER= 0 : Tori, 1 : Uke

BODYPART= 0 to 20. 0 [Head] 1 [Breast] 2 [Chest] 3 [Stomach] 4 [Groin] 5 [Right Pec] 6 [Right Bicep] 7 [Left Tricep] 8 [Left Pec] 9 [Left Bicep] 10 [Left Tricep] 11 [Right Hand] 12 [Left Hand] 13 [Right Butt] 14 [Left Butt] 15 [Right Thigh] 16 [Left Thigh] 17 [Left Shin] 18 [Right Shin] 19 [Right Foot] 20 [Left Foot]

COLOR ID= The Toribash colors id.
http://toribash.com/colors.txt

ALPHA= Opacity of the 3d item.

DYNAMİC= Not sure but I think shrinks/flattens object.

PARTLESS= If you make this 1 the tori model will disappear( only that bodypart) . For example if you have a hand model and load it with partless option 1 normal square hand will not shown ingame. If you want it to shown make it 0.

GHOSTED= 1 : Custom model will shown in ghost. 0 : Custom model wont shown in ghost.

Now as an example;
head object code:
/obj load custom/iblackleon/beret.obj 0 0 85 255 0 0 1
My beret object in that directory will be
on Tori, on head, Void, Fully Visible, wont be dynamic, head will shown, it will be on ghost.

Item.dat editing

Copy obj into "Toribash/custom/yourname"
Rename it to "bodypart.obj"(head.obj for example)
now that you have the obj file you save it to your folder
Your folder should now look like this

4.1. Item.dat modifying

OBJ0 1; 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Breakdown:
OBJ0: Bodypart to modify. The number after OBJ denote the bodypart ID (OBJ0 = head, OBJ1 = breast)
Refer: 0 [Head] 1 [Breast] 2 [Chest] 3 [Stomach] 4 [Groin] 5 [Right Pec] 6 [Right Bicep] 7 [Left Tricep] 8 [Left Pec] 9 [Left Bicep] 10 [Left Tricep] 11 [Right Hand] 12 [Left Hand] 13 [Right Butt] 14 [Left Butt] 15 [Right Thigh] 16 [Left Thigh] 17 [Left Shin] 18 [Right Shin] 19 [Right Foot] 20 [Left Foot]

Number values:
Toggle object on/off
<unknown>
Color ID: REFER toribash.com/colors.txt
Alpha: 255 = fully opaque, 0 = fully transparent
Use texture overlay: body part texture is MULTIPLIED over the object color. If colorID is 0 or 1 or pure, the texture color is used as is
?Dynamic <unknown> currently shrinks/flattens object
Replace body part with object: 0 = body part is visible with object, 1 = bodypart is replaced with object
Ghost: 0 = object doesn't appear in ghost, 1 = object appears in ghost

Example:
Say we want to replace the mesh of the left foot and have it color textured, and appear in the ghost
we add this in the item.dat
OBJ20 1; 1 1 255 1 0 1 1

If you have any problems or suggestions for this tut, post them here, or PM me.

Last edited by WorldEater; Oct 28, 2017 at 03:50 PM.

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