Re: [simspark-devel] Textures of Nao ?

[Yuan X. <xuy...@gm...>]

Hi Joschka,

Thanks for your guide!
I have created the head of Nao, ( see the attached files ).
It is really an art work, it costs me nearly the whole day.
And I want to know if there is anything wrong.



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>  My recommendation would be to start with tutorials on the web, e.g. [1]
> would be very suitable I think. Maybe you found some good ones yourself
> meanwhile, but I learned a lot from this "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro" Wikibook.
> Also great (especially for robot modeling) is the first issue of the
> BlenderArt magazine [2]. They have a tutorial on how to model the "Papero"
> robot from NEC :-) It's a rather simple robot compared to the Nao, but it's
> a good start. Just keep in mind not to use the SubSurf modifiers for the Nao
> model, because it creates too many polygons for our purposes. If you use the
> "Set smooth" button in Blender (in the "Link and Materials" panel), it
> should look good even though you're using just a low number of polygons.
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>  We also need to create a new soccer pitch and goals for Nao. I started with
> this and I have attached what I did so far (not very much ;-) ). I also
> modeled the goal, but I had trouble with the texture for the goal net, so I
> want to improve it before I send it to you. By the way, I use "Gimp" [3] for
> the texture stuff, and "Inkscape" [4] for vector graphics (like lines, for
> instance). You'll find these as packages in your Linux distribution I think.
> You can open the .xcf files with Gimp and the .svg files with Inkscape.
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>  Once you have a model in Blender that you would like to export, please
> export it with the Wavefront .obj exporter. Make sure that you select
> "Normals" and "Triangulate" because the importer needs this information.
> Everything else can be left as default values. Put the .obj file into
> app/simspark/models and the .mtl file in app/simspark/materials. When you
> import an .obj file (have a look into the soccerbot RSG files, e.g. for the
> torso), you most likely need to rotate it to have the right orientation (see
> for instance the soccerbotcomp torso, I think I use a Transform node and
> than setLocalRotation 90 180 0 or sth. like that). I'll try to make a short
> article in the Wiki about this soon (or we can create one together, please
> try to share what you learn in the process :-) ).
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> > After all, we hope you can find time to do it.
> >
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>  Yes, I would like to, but I really can't promise right now. Unfortunately,
> my time is very limited at the moment. :-(
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>  For now, I hope this information can help to get you started. Please keep
> me posted on your progress and feel free to ask if you have any questions.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Joschka
>
>  [1]
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Modeling_a_Simple_Person
>  [2] http://www.blenderart.org/issues/
>  [3] http://www.gimp.org/
>  [4] http://www.inkscape.org/
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Best wishes!

Xu Yuan
School of Automation
Southeast University, Nanjing, China

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