Posts from Guide on adding a new model, animation, and creature to HoMMV

The horses' jaws are 2D, and 2D elements usually duplicated by inverting the duplicated side... but in your case, the jaw is completely broken: some polygons, so to speak, face one way, and others face the opposite way.

I just figured this out, but I don't know how to properly duplicate it. Or rather, I did it, but now I can't create the skinning for them.

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In general, I don't know how to do this correctly yet. If I copy and unfold the polygons, then I can't create skinning for them afterwards. And I don't know how else to do it.

I don't know what you guys are doing, but if you're using 3D Max, and the skinning is normal, you need to cut it out (paste), then edit the model, then insert the previously copied skinning, and that's it. When working with meshes that have skinning, you'll get a mess when adjusting the skeleton.

If I'm not mistaken, it's in Blender... and by the way, have you seen my creature demonstrations from the sixth game?
Marksman
Sentinel
Sun Rider
Sun Rider upg

They are simply great. However, it seems they don't pay much attention to the materials. In the future, I want to work with the materials.

Okay, after a completely broken game, a day of trying to clean the computer of all Heroes files, re-downloading my version from Google Drive, and additional attempts to understand what was wrong (the catch was that the Estonian didn't show everything in the video; I found a point in Zakhar's 2.3 guide that says about 2 Zip files and where they need to be installed), I finally got it working!

BUT! Smooth shading has disappeared... and that's extremely important. Those who have uploaded their models, please share how it was for you? Maybe something needs to be done additionally in Maya? I've never worked with Maya before and only created the bone structure there following the Estonian's tutorial.

The smoothness depends on the number of polygons exported.
A small number of polygons can be masked with an additional normal map texture or by playing around with the game engine's materials. Or, you can increase the number of triangles.

If I understand correctly, it refers to polygons with smoothing, that is, with rounded edges. This is not possible in the game. I think it is worth trying to solve the problem with texturing.
I can only assume that the texturing was done in Blender with rounded polygons. When exporting, the rounding disappeared, and the texture was slightly stretched in places, here and there, and that's why the difference is visible. These are just my assumptions.
It would be better to do the texturing on the model on the left, or not use smoothing.

The trick is that this setting, smooth shading, can be adequately transferred from Blender to Substance Painter, Unity, and Unreal Engine 4.

Regarding smoothing, for importing it via FBX into Maya, you should have this checkbox enabled (in Maya 2009, it's called something slightly different).

And can you provide your model with all 34k polygons? I’ll try to export it into the game.