3ds

SabataRH

(Posted 2005) [#1]

This may be kinda' a broad question but has anyone successfully been able to export a mesh from blitz3d to 3ds format?? If so would you please contact me - I'd be interested in purchasing such a routine from you.. All my attempts have failed. Thank you.

ckob	(Posted 2005) [#2]

im not 100% sure but I dont think anyone has done this yet because descreet the owners of 3ds format require a license in order to use the format to export to. Im not 100% sure though

SabataRH

(Posted 2005) [#3]

Ahhh well that would explain alot.. :)

Thanks.

ckob	(Posted 2005) [#4]

no problem

jfk EO-11110

(Posted 2005) [#5]

I don't think you need a license to export 3ds. There are many free tools that are exporting 3ds. I doubt they all have a license.

There is an other problem with 3DS: Due to the lack of documentation from the side of discreet, there is a high number of 3ds format extensions, and most apps are not able of reading them.

Only simple Scale Rotate Move Animations are standard 3DS. Nevertheless you can export and reimport bones animations from 3D Studio in the 3ds format.

3DS Format is a nightmare, so to say. That's why there ain't a big lot of export implementations, IMHO.
the following ZIP includes the C sourcecode for Format conversion of some 3D formats:

".3ds" 3D Studio Max binary;
".ase" 3D Studio Max ASCII export;
".byu" Movie.BYU surface geometry;
".dxf" DXF;
".gmod" Golgotha model;
".hrc" SoftImage hierarchy;
".iv" SGI Open Inventor;
".obj" WaveFront Advanced Visualizer;
".pov" Persistence of Vision (output only);
".smf" Michael Garland's format;
".stl" ASCII StereoLithography;
".stla" ASCII StereoLithography;
".stlb" Binary StereoLithography;
".tec" TECPLOT (output only);
".tri" [Greg Hood ASCII triangle format];
".tria" [Greg Hood ASCII triangle format];
".trib" [Greg Hood binary triangle format];
".txt" Text (output only);
".ucd" AVS UCD file(output only);
".vla" VLA;
".wrl" VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) (output only).
".xgl" XML/OpenGL format (output only);

http://www.melog.ch/dl/ivcon_3dconvert_win32bin.zip

Tho, I didn't test it yet, but the source compiled out of the box, soto say.

SabataRH

(Posted 2005) [#6]

Thanks for the info jfk ... and the source!