Confused!!

[Jonesi]

I've made some rocks for the garden in milkshape...I cloned a plant and exported the mesh but only ticked the box for the plant mesh and not the shadows

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1380/7146681/13665619/205127386.jpg

Now when I load the rocks into the game all the shadows are still there

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1380/7146681/13665619/205127389.jpg

So I went back, ticked all the boxes and exported - deleted the shadows, exported my mesh - overwriting the original and imported it back - replaced the plant mesh, not the shaows and now when I go into the game it's still plant shaped but with my texture...for some reason the overwriting didn;t work as when I checked it again later it's still a plant...

Anyway, besides that....if I tick all the boxes before I export I have like 3 groups in milkshape - the plant mesh, the ground shadow and the plant shadow - am I right in deleting the two shadows and then adding my own mesh then deleting the plant mesh?

And if so, when I go to import my mesh back in, theres lots of choices to choose from after I've selected replace, which one do I choose?

Basically, I just want to get rid of the shadows from the pic above?

TIA xxxx

[Khaibit]

If I understood you correctly you just deleted the shadow-subsets in milkshape and replaced the plant with your rocks? Did you click "remove all groups before import" (something like that :D) while importing to get rid of the unwanted subsets? As the texture is still there, did you delete the shadow texture, the TXMT for the shadows, updated the shape, geometric node etc. (=update the whole package struckture to removed subsets)? It would be easier to replace the shadows with fitting ones, like described in Boblishman's shadow tutorial :D

I don't know what you mean with "lots of choices to choose from after I've selected replace" - you mean the subset which you want to be replaced or the settings like "add to bounding mesh" etc.?

[Jonesi]

remove all groups before import ---- thats the fella!!! Missed that out!! Works now and I've finished them (after 7 hours!!)

Thanks for that xxxxx