Dustin's Relto Page Tutorial

Welcome here!

This tutorial assumes you're using 3dsmax rather than Blender, but it is possible with Blender too. For more info on the two, and also on getting starting with making Ages, see Creating Ages.

Creating the .age File

It is much like making a regular Age, but we'll need to make the .age file a little differently. Basically, we'll use the same values as Personal.age ("Personal" is Relto's filename), but we'll remove the psnlMystII page and add ours. Let's say that we want to call our page "DustinsFancyReltoPage". And we need to pick a *unique* Page number too. It must be over 100, but let's keep them less than 400 for now. I'll keep a list at UAM/ReltoPages/List, and if you would like to reserve some, please just let me know! For our example, we'll pick 100. (Again, you'll need a different one for yours.)

Here's the Personal.age file we'll put in 3dsmax's output folder:

StartDateTime=0000000000
DayLength=24.000000
MaxCapacity=10
LingerTime=180
SequencePrefix=13
ReleaseVersion=0
Page=UamPage-DustinsFancyReltoPage,100

Note that we've removed the two lines for "psnlMYSTII" and "psnlDustAdditions". Also note, that we added "UamPage-" out front, so that the full pagename is "UamPage-DustinsFancyReltoPage". That's important! (By the way, as with all 3dsmax .age files, make sure that you create them with a regular text editor and not PlasmaShop or similar Uru tools.) Feel free to copy this text and change the pagename and pagenumber to suit your own needs!

Working in 3dsmax

Now, in 3dsmax, when we create the PageInfo component as usual, we'll pick "Personal" and select our pages from the dropdown list. Now just model and export as you would for any other Age!

Converting with Drizzle

When it comes to converting, you need to be using Drizzle29 or newer. On "The Art" tab of Drizzle, where you'll do the converting, you need to select the "Partial Age" option on "The Art". (It should warn you if you don't have this set.) And set the "Ages" field to "Personal". (Normally, Ages shouldn't have the "Partial Age" option set, but we need it for Relto Pages and Ahra Pahts shells, because those are pre-existing Ages, and we don't want to overwrite them!)