realbasic-games
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: modeler...

To: REALbasic Games <realbasic-games at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: modeler...
From: Frank Condello <developer at chaoticbox dot com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:08:32 -0400
Delivered-to: realbasic-games at lists dot realsoftware dot com
References: <50CA2ED3-2045-4195-9538-43BBD0C44F35 at tallent dot com> <a0620071dbeb90350dc39 at [10 dot 10 dot 13 dot 4]>
On 24-May-05, at 12:17 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

At 10:58 AM -0500 5/24/05, Stephen Tallent wrote:

My primary platform that I will be developing on is win32, and while own several modeling apps, of course none support 3DMF. Googling for days hasn't turned up any reasonable options for win32 tools for converting from any of the major formats to 3DMF. My only option currently appears to be to export from my win32 modeler and move it over to my ancient and slow mac to do the conversion and then move it back.

Another alternative would be to write your own converter, or collaborate with others.

I keep putting this off, but I'm hoping to get back on it soon... I've created a "Generic 3D Model" framework that consists of a bunch of classes that can describe an n-gon mesh in an easy to use format (basically just a bunch of arrays of custom generic basic types). The plan is to add import/export methods via class extensions to keep it modular - adding 3DMF output shouldn't be difficult using the Quesa Wrappers, and the OBJ importer is about 50% done, so it shouldn't take long once I find some free time.

I am still debating how to handle certain things though - getting the vertex and normal list into and out-of a vertex-array compatible format can get messy...

Frank.
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Open Source RB Goodies and Shareware
<http://developer.chaoticbox.com/>
<http://www.chaoticbox.com/>
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>

Search the archives of this list here:
<http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>