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Mr.Sneaky

Post Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:12 pm

Noob questions

so i have been officaily modding freelancer now for 4 days now...lol and i have so many questions, most of witch i can find the answeres to on the forum, but one......

Is thier a plugin for ethier Bryce 5 or milkshape that will allow me to make ships in bryce 5 and import them into mikeshape, or viceversa???


Any Help,links,work-A-rounds would be most appericative..

What I am working on now Starlancer Ship pack (mainly the Preditor,jappaneys Sai,coyote and mirage. I have Milkshape 1.7.4 & Bryce 5 (i have no version # as of yet but will look.

Agian i have looked around but, i am only human, and could have missed something somewhere. I am sure this wont be my first and last post here at lancers, and once agian thank all how have posted, will post, and the modorators & Admins who keep this most presous forum free and clear of useless stuff

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cjabates

Post Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:52 am

Check what formats Bryce can export- it's possible there is one that MS3d can import natively.

Chris Bates
Lead scripter,
Stargate BFM: Freelancer

Argh

Post Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:10 am

Bryce can export OBJ, which is what you want as your export format anyhow.

Mr.Sneaky

Post Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:32 am

Ummm ok well thanks all i will give it a try

Slayer09

Post Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:04 am

as far as i know there are already enough SL ships in FL
well - exactly those you mentioned
so why create new?

AluminumHaste

Post Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:26 am

Because it's good practice, and it won't hurt having another ship.

Aldebaran28

Post Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:48 am

You will have trouble with exporting from Bryce 5 to Milkshape. Even though Bryce 5 exports obj files, this only tends to work on editable terrains (either single or double sided). Unless you are after a flying piece of terrain, this ain't going to be too good for your ship.

The problem comes between the way Bryce 5 models are built and the way Milkshape and most other 3d programs create models. With most 3d programs, they work by the familar polygons / vertices method to create an object. Bryce doesn't. Instead it works with Primatives, Boolians, negatives and postive objects etc.... to create what you are after. It would take one major bit of coding for a exporter to translate all that into a polygon rendered model that can be read by other programs. If you find an exporter plugin that does that, then let me know as I have tried searching and found nothing. to be honest, considering what the exporter would be required to do, I doubt anyone has bothered to create one.

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