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Bryan Russell
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posted 01-16- 09:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bryan Russell   Click Here to Email Bryan Russell     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I had a look at the VRML exporter for MAX and it has an option to create polygons based on visible edges. I tested it quickly and it exported the wheels with 12 sided polygons for the round sides. I think it still needs the planer thing happening but it looks like it will do the job.

So how does this help? Well I ran across a VRML class library and I will try to make a VRML plugin for OPS.

As a bonus, VRML has all sorts of useful stuff in it including translation and rotation information, so it may also get rid of the intermeddiate script. VRML is actually a much better choice than OBJ for this stuff, but since OBJ was a really easy format to parse, and I'm basically lazy, it won!

I'm downloading the library now so hopefully I should have something in the not too distant future.

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JT
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posted 01-16- 10:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for JT   Click Here to Email JT     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good show... any problems you can forsee with texturing or normals?

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JV44Siggi
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posted 01-16- 11:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for JV44Siggi   Click Here to Email JV44Siggi     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Jeez..you guys sound like quantum physicists!

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roadtoad
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posted 01-16- 01:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for roadtoad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Please make sure you get the poop on vrml 2.0 ..the earlier dit versions of 1.0 had big troubles

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Bryan Russell
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posted 01-16- 04:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bryan Russell   Click Here to Email Bryan Russell     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
JT: Well it has textures and normals defined, so barring any bugs with the actual plugin it should. I guess I'll know when I spent hours and hours on it and it turns out a dud Its a Kenetix plugin rather than 3rd party so I hope they care about their reputation.

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