Making a standalone .xxx -> .cmp converter (prev. title:

Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:45 pm by mike3

What if I told you that I was building a stand-alone program that can convert various 3D formats to FreeLancer .CMP files? Right now, I've made two programs so far, one that converts the old Autodesk .3ds format, and one that does the Lightwave .lwo format (the newer one, LW 6 and above). I'm thinking of trying to make one for the 3D Studio .MAX format, but I don't use that 3D program, so I'd have to do tests using converters and whatnot.

In these programs, I used some code from the Milkshape plugin here (specifically, the CRC routine and the thing to compute the vertex/face normals). Is this acceptable?

Anyway, if I manage to get these to work, would you want to see the programs, and the source code?

Edited by - mike3 on 11/18/2005 7:30:10 PM

Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:57 am by Chips

Although I personally wouldn't understand what you had done, I am positive that alot of people would be really
A) extremely thankful/happy.

love to see the source code

Sounds adventurous - but great

Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:23 pm by Louva-Deus

Sure.. join the =EOA= and we'll help each other out

Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:02 pm by mike3

What do you mean?

Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:23 am by Louva-Deus

We need another person who understands model formats and conversion methods.

Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:42 am by Godzero

Plz make it. my milkshape has just craped out, and i really need it because of its cmp and mat export abilitys.

Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:26 am by Anton

Glad I stopped by - this would be very useful indeed Mike. May I request a secondary function to your program that simply outputs, to text files for each mesh in the model, the number of vertices followed by a list of vertex coords? I've made one for MS3D ascii files to qhull input but a multiformat converter would be far superior.

ie the file to read

10
x y z
...

(space delimited coord data)

It's for a via qhull sur generator project I'm tinkering with

+++ out of cheese error - redo from start +++

Edited by - anton on 12/19/2005 3:28:12 AM

Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:33 am by Anton

Oh and Mike, I know Colin is happy for others to use his source code as basis for other things. Just give him credit for things you have used

Stop by here =EOA= to see what the group is all about.

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