[Kazan]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
Well the thing is, if he feels that writing a plugin that he personally will never use (but will get used) but will broaden his knowledge of 3D formats/conversions, then all the better... just because he won't use it doesn't mean he won't get something useful out of it, or juest find it fun.

sounds good

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[Martinus]

I don't want to make it seem that I'm flogging a dead horse (am I?) but is there any more info on this Morris?

[Setekh]

The post is somewhere around here on the Forums, but wEvil informs us that that dude's new CPU just fried itself. So no update for a little while longer.  

Don't worry Maeglamor, this is something worth watching.  

[Martinus]

Woo hoo!

*Daft Punk kicks in* One more time, we're gonna celebrate...

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[Setekh]

Err...

*bump*  

[Martinus]

Ummm...

*rebump*

[DragonClaw]

  Thank you for bumping it one month up  

It was a dead topic you didn't have to do it

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[Martinus]

What makes you think it's a dead topic? No one else has asked if anything more had happened regarding this.
I might be a tad optimistic but it won't hurt to ask.

[Kazan]

well you can make a plugin for POF CS to support 3ds files, some of the converfsion code for different files types is common, and that's provided in the POF CS plugin SDK

(note: i need to update the SDK code base)

[Martinus]

Sheese, I still have to get the grip of 2D graphics stuff  

Thanks for giving us the option though Kazan.

[morris13]

That is a sweet deal. I realize that no matter which direction you come at it from its a difficult project, but I really hope that someone eventually has the motivation to devote the nessecary time and skill to this. 3ds is so much of a superior product and it seems much more commonly used by the most skilled modders that a direct method of turning 3d studio files into .pof files would be of incredible benifit to all of us that devote our time and ability to the Freespace 2 Modding community.

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by RKIF-DragonClaw:
 Thank you for bumping it one month up  

It was a dead topic you didn't have to do it

It was dead to the people of that month. Since then new people have joined. Besides, it can't be harm to revisit old ideas which are good, of which this is one. So   to you.  

[Nico]

oOne huge pb with 3ds files... they don't support face map. Ouch. That means huge vertice counts, as all face-mapped polys are detached as one flat mapped independant poly... Better use max files, coz 3ds files won't do the job I'm afraid.

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want to see my models and renders?

[Martinus]

Interesting, I didn't know about that. Can you give me any more info on this Venom? You seem to have a good grasp of max and I'm only really using it to texture.

[Kazan]

ok.. if you decode how you want the binary .max data interpreted [ie what i use to define a 'group' ie a subsystem, etc] I will write the code

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