1. They look like little legos.
The frets do indeed look like little legos and thats why I want to change their appearance - the skull fret is simply a placeholder so I can see if things are working or not. I don't necessarily plan on using that - once it works, then I know anything I model can be put in its place.
2. They're too small and too flat.
Agreed, but obviously they won't look like that once I can get my geometry to work.
3. I don't like how there are bars even when you don't have to hold a note. I think it should JUST be the circle when you only hit a note and don't hold it.
Don't think this is something I could change, as the bars are probably generated vectors.
I am currently making Master of Puppets (as in right now, lol) for FoF and I'm using the Freetar Hero Editor to plot it all out, and then converting it using that handy tool that was linked somewhere on these forums (
http://www.nukular.ch/foftools) - using this method means that I will have to then use the FoF editor to add in where I want chords/notes to be held, but does mean that single notes do not have the bars that you mentioned.
So what I would like to see is...
The neck to be a little wider. (so that the notes can be a little bigger)
The notes to look almost exactly like Guitar Hero notes. (fatter, taller, wider, white dot in the middle, more rounded)
Also, the hold note bar is too flat and skinny, if you could make that like the GH hold note that would be awesome.
I can't edit the area that can be used for the neck. Although Once I get coder help this could be tackled i'd have thought.
I won't be making any guitar hero look-a-likey notes as I don't think people should be aiming to make this look identical. The whole point is to make this something new to look at, even though the concept is the same.
Oh yeah, what do you use to open up/edit .dae files?
I've managed to get the *.dae files to open in 3ds max (my primariy modelling package) now using the Collada plugin (I didnt have the collada tools before which these plugins are reliant upon).
If you just want to view the files then serach for Collview.
You can download Blender for free which also lets you import Collada files.
At present I am having to export the modified dae files from max as *.3ds files, open them in Blender and then export those back to *.dae files. For some reason max will only let you export dae files as triangles rather than polygons, and the FoF guys have told me that you have to use polys.
The only minor success I have had so far was placing the skull fret above the standard one and loading it into the game. This cast a shadow on the origianl note and made them a lot darker, so obviously the game recognises that the geometry is there, leading me to believe this is a materials issue, but Im still not sure.
Anyway, back to Master of Puppets, then I might have another crack at the notes issues later tonight.
FozZ
