posted 01-28-2002 11:06 PM               

Once you change her head, as you "mix" that order, it may happen, for example, that one important vertex which is a linker between her head and her ponytail, is no more in its original position, but for example it is on a EYE... so in the game you see the ponytail linked to it instead with her hair.

STRpix gives you the chance to CHANGE the order of the list of all of those vertexes: so before to change her head, open you wad with it and with the POINT MODE take a note of the numbers for the relating vertexes of the normal head.

As the "hole in the head" for the ponytail is done by 4 vertexes you need FOUR numbers before you import the new head.

In normal official NOT edited wads, those numbers are:

39 40

37 38

Actually in this order if I remember well.
If not, it is easy to check those numbers with the "remap feature".
So, once you import The NEW head, check for the numbers for the "hole in the head" where the ponytail should be linked and substitute the new values with those ones or the ones you found.

BUT YOU SAID you want to use a tr2-3 head: this means a DIFFERENT head which has LESS polygons than the tr4 head. So, if you remap that head with those numbers which are compatible with the polygons amount of a tr4 head, you could corrupt the wad irreversely.

So it should be better, for my honest opinion, to do a successful importing manually with STRpix for ALL the body meshes, then to keep the original tr4 head or to remesh it and fix the ponytail problem manually like I wrote just up above

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