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Aug 1, 2001, 3:22am

Get 3DS loading in AW, i got
tons of code to load 3DS, why
does'nt AW implent loading 3DS??
I've searched the net for a RWX exporter
to 3DsMax r 3.1 and r 4.0. I find none that
work with 3DsMax r 3.1 and Windows 2000.
There was some ways to export but exporting to
one format then to rwx, its quite much extra, not
nessesary work. I think AW has thouhgt more on
TrueSpace users and not on Max and LightWave users.
(Thoes who uses a real tool :)

I could make a DLL that loads 3DS files and give
access to all the infos you need!

- Excal

Aug 1, 2001, 12:37pm

Ok:
- Ever hear of scaling?
- Supermodels: Man you only think rendering???
Cob files contains much info to, but the AW browser
does'nt load all the deformations and so. So with
a 3DS file wich have spesific: Verties, TextureCords,
Normals, wich makes modeling a dream actually.

Its a common format and i would be then easy
to export: SMD, MD2, MD3, OBJ, TIN, STL files
to 3DS for use in AW, with my exporter then. And also
SMD/MD2/MD3 actors will be 3DS files + SEQ files.

Man, i use 3DS files for programs i program, they
are nice, small and fast. And they are greate to make in
3DsMax! (I donno about TS and LW, cz i dont use them :)

Let me make a DLL to load 3DS, all i ask for!

- Excal



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Aug 1, 2001, 3:36pm

Yeah see my problem, i cant get a decent exporter!
So i want to make a DLL that can load 3DS files for
AW Browser, also that AW add support to users to make
plugins for other file formats. Cz i think they are using to much
time to go COB way, and thats like Mirco$oft, limiting to
their own format and they probably get money or something
from Caligar to advertise a old version of TrueSpace!
(TrueSpace sucks anyway, I tryed 4.2 and its not good, i like
3DsMax is way better, and the interface are more thinked trough )

- Excal


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Aug 7, 2001, 5:29pm

Thats really simple to do :)
But i guess for AW.COM, its hard
cz they use C Phluss Phluss :P

- Excal


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Aug 7, 2001, 6:53pm

no, VB = M$ = Shit!!

Its Delphi, or shall i say both Delphi and Kylix? :)

- Excal


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Aug 16, 2001, 7:32pm

Emm, not that hard, make a new celldata item: "vertical".
Map keys to rotate verical: HOME and END.

Dunno how it is in RenderWare but in the engine
i program in it has properties for rotating:

TurnAngle, RollAngle, PitchAngle

wich has procedures:

Turn, Roll, Pitch

On every base model
Its not hard but as i was told from one of the
AW.Com programmers that they dont have time
for all sort of things, like: 3DS loading, ignoring etc...
is easy but they make it hard.

Anyway why dont AW use some other 3D engine
rather than the D3D from RenderWare, wich costs
like 100 000 $ pr. developer. And dont use a Free
one like me :)
I think AW or RW is a p.o.s. compared to powerfull
engines using OpenGL.

PS: dont buy any software that requires DirectX/Direct3D
as only possible driver, cz i bought MidTown Madness 2, and
gee what a F***ed up graphic, looked like a 8 yearold project!!
(i have a 800AMD, 320ram, GeForce2MX) same shit happend on
a 600 celeron, with Creative GeForce2 GTS.

So Direct3D = sucky, and thats cz its M$ish.

- Excal

Aug 19, 2001, 2:42pm

Much is yust API calls, yust coding it
nice together, thought netcode is perhaps some
coding... But i've never tryed RW API, cz i dont
like C++ and i dont like D3D.

In games, OpenGL is allways the fastest and best graphics engine;

- Unreal Tournament
- Half-Life
- Quake III

Unreal Tournament; D3D gfx is sucky, looks
like a little improved software mode!

HalfLife; D3D is slow, and gota have low-res
mode, for even play it!

Max Payne; is D3D, but its good programed, or lets
say it the right way; the use MAX FX, wich is D3D, and
used in 3DMark 200x, so its yust SDK calls...

D3D uses allso a lot of CPU cache, it runs better on a P3 600> rather
than a AMD 800...

anyway, Home and End key are very easy to implent;
something like this (delphi thought):

procedure keyHandel;
....
if Assigned(aw.Selected.Object) then begin
if isKeyDown(VK_HOME) then aw.Selected.Object.Pitch(1);
if isKeyDown(VK_END) then aw.Selected.Object.Pitch(-1);
end else
if isKeyDown(VK_HOME) then aw.Camera.ToggleZoom(0);
if isKeyDown(VK_END) then aw.Camera.ToggleZoom(1);
end;
....
end:

its not hard thought, yust gota know how to program *g*

PS: rotate command takes up more space in the celldata file, than
a extra "value".

- Excal

Jul 30, 2001, 2:46am

Try www.anarchyonline.com they say its very good.
or try Half-Life with some new mods (all free):

www.dayofdefeatmod.com
www.svencoop.com
www.counter-strike.net

- Excal


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Jul 30, 2001, 2:40am

I have problems with AW when
i have it running under Windows
2000, i lock my PC, then come
back in like 10 min, and then
AW crashed cz of a access vail. error..

- Excal

Aug 1, 2001, 7:56pm

nice one :)

- Excal


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