03-07-2012, 02:19 AM
Glad to see you're ripping a lot of models!
Before you rip too many, though, there's a little issue that needs to be fixed in the rips. Pop open one of the MTLs in Notepad, or your text editor of choice. You'll see that it lists a number of texture paths, which is how the model importer knows where the textures are. Unfortunately, they are absolute paths, which don't work with MTLs. In order for them to be work properly, they need to be changed to relative paths by removing the beginning part of the paths (example, leaving just "face.png" instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\...\guy\face.png"). Luckily, you have the power of Replace All to go through them. Make sure to do this for every model, including future rips.
And yes, DAEs are perfectly acceptable, and in fact would be awesome if you included them.
(Note that you'd have to fix the texture paths in the DAEs as well.)
For the Icon Maker, unfortunately it doesn't yet support alpha transparency. You can use it to make the base of the image, such as the thumbnail name, but you'll have to use Photoshop, Fireworks, GIMP, or whatever image program you use to overlay your render on top of it and properly mask it so it doesn't overlap the borders.
Before you rip too many, though, there's a little issue that needs to be fixed in the rips. Pop open one of the MTLs in Notepad, or your text editor of choice. You'll see that it lists a number of texture paths, which is how the model importer knows where the textures are. Unfortunately, they are absolute paths, which don't work with MTLs. In order for them to be work properly, they need to be changed to relative paths by removing the beginning part of the paths (example, leaving just "face.png" instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\...\guy\face.png"). Luckily, you have the power of Replace All to go through them. Make sure to do this for every model, including future rips.
And yes, DAEs are perfectly acceptable, and in fact would be awesome if you included them.
(Note that you'd have to fix the texture paths in the DAEs as well.)
For the Icon Maker, unfortunately it doesn't yet support alpha transparency. You can use it to make the base of the image, such as the thumbnail name, but you'll have to use Photoshop, Fireworks, GIMP, or whatever image program you use to overlay your render on top of it and properly mask it so it doesn't overlap the borders.