Where are my children!?

Sorry for the exciting title, as this isn't exciting at all ;)
I loaded the model of an gun I made in good ol' Milkshape into B3D and I can't find any child with FindChild and CountChildren even returns 0! How is this possible - the damn thing has got plenty of children in MS3d!?

Regards,
Kungfista

What format did you save it in?

Also, FindChild is case-sensitive. For that reason, its best to name children in all upper case or all lower case - not a combination of the two.

I know about the case thingy and the format is B3D. I didn't encounter any problems finding childs in B3D models so far... at least I had no problem finding the "right wrist" bone of the B3D-guy who holds the gun. As you might guess I'm trying to get the muzzle of the gun now ;)

Right - try doing a FindChild on the "right wrist" instead of the character. The thing is, the muzzle is not a child of the character mesh, it will be a child of the gun (depending how the model is constructed of course).

Entity hierarchy can get confusing. There's probably a recursive "FindChild" function in the code archives somewhere. I think MasterBeaker did one called "NextChild" or something...

Are you sure you are using LoadAnimMesh, and not LoadMesh?

He did say he had no trouble finding the wrists?

Anyway, try this.

MilkShape doesn't keep Child names or group names. I think they all end up being called "root". It's a pain...It keeps the heirarchy, but not the names.

If you have ultimate unwrap, you can edit the names in that.

I was assuming that was another model altogether, since he was talking about loading a gun model (which returned 0 for CountChildren)...

I'm stupid!
ROFL, you're right Fredborg, I searched the gun for bones but didn't load it as an AnimMesh - thanks :)
Another question: Is there another way to get a Milkshape group as a child entity in Blitz than using Ultimate Unwrap to rename the groups?

Thx for your help!
Kungfista