only took a couple of tries,

Did you make it?
I hope so, though this gradient kinda worries me.
Wow, I see it took a couple of tries.
So you did make some complicated maths with normals?
I thought it could be more like :
if sharp edge
translate to collada sharp edge

EDIT: Please make sure it looks the same as if actually spliting the model into separate objects.
Anyway, I gotta go to sleep. It's 4 am here

@frmdbl
this is with the edge split applied,
and the gradient is actually a material i made in the sb to get a good view of what was happening
dif color=black
spec color=white

still have a little more testing to do, but its there

in game shot if tile made with nothing but blender and neotextureedit
(sdk 3.4, gimp used for conversion to tif)

Looks good:)
Here's what I'm working on.

from blender?
looks awesome

Yes, it's a project I'm doing with cryblend.

Wow, the CryBlend add-on looks awesome! Is it available for download yet? I've been using the old version but the add-on seems like it would make a huge difference in my workflow.

@nobodytossesadwarf
not yet, should be avail in about a week, bare in mind that this version is mainly for environmental
purposes, e.g.: if it doesn't require a skeleton this addon should do it.

to the testers ,
cbav2.0.2-4 should be in your inbox right about now
fixes smoothing not working properly with edge split applied.
dont forget to adjust your rc.exe location.

have fun,
angjminer.

@angjminer:
Ok, sounds good. I can't wait! Thank you

Seems to work fine, I'll test it more later today.

found something that blender dont have that we need:::::::::
vertex alpha
dont exist so ill have to figure out how we can do that.
btw can someone send me a collada from 3ds or maya with vertex alpha?
we need this for dirt layers,
ill experiment to see what can be done as of right now.
thanks all,
angjminer

I found that too, I'm not so familiar with Blender's vertex paint, but I see that there's Vertex Paint
and Weight Paint.
So maybe you could translate Weight values to Vertex Alpha values.

that would be fine for now,
until we started skinning models
then i would have to redo it,
maybe another color map
that only has one color exported,
might be a better idea, maybe.

You;re right I totally forgot that there might actually be a proper use for weight paint.