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Gwynoid
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Modeling is all very confusing...
Is there a .solid maker around? |
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Cap'n Hector
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.Solid? Is that a file format for 3D modelling? I haven't run across it before…
Can you provide any more information on it?
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Unigraphics makes those =P
Only place I have seen .solid's are in Lugaru.
Has anyone used Meshwork for modeling?? Nice low poly app, and cheap too, though I am hearing very good things about Wings3d and whats that other one called, something like Jaguar =\
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Cap'n Hector
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Unigraphics makes those =P
Only place I have seen .solid's are in Lugaru.
Has anyone used Meshwork for modeling?? Nice low poly app, and cheap too, though I am hearing very good things about Wings3d and whats that other one called, something like Jaguar =\ |
I haven't tried either one…I've been learning Cararra 2 and trying to replace Infini-D. 
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Gwynoid
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| some low scale games use them, but they're very effective. |
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Paul
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I just downloaded Wings3d. It's pretty slick. It handles a good number of file formats, including 3ds, it looks like it's got pretty good features, and best of all: it's free open source! OK, looks like I'll try to port over to 3ds here shortly.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't call Unigraphics low scale....
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Paul
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The conversion to 3ds is coming along well I can now import and display the geometry of any 3ds file. Now I just have to figure out how to handle those textures. 
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Paul
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Maybe some of you guys who have experience with 3DS can help me out... from all the documentation and source code I've seen, it looks like 3DS only allows 1 texture coordinate per vertex, no matter how many faces contain that vertex. It seems that this would eliminate full texturing of a solid body, which wouldn't be good. Any thoughts on this? I can always change the format for my game, if necessary.
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Paul
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Forget it, I'm tired of screwing around with 3DS. I'm moving to OBJ. It doesn't appear to have any unnatural restrictions. File sizes are a good bit larger, since it's in ascii not binary, but if they seem to be too large I can add in binary compression. However, since this is for a game, not for professional photorealistic renders, polygon sizes shouldn't go too high.
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Gwynoid
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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I'm starting on a ship; though I'm just fooling around until I get the hang of it. 
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Paul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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What app are you using?
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Wings 3D
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