3ds max files?

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:58 pm

I tried to make one of my own scenes using 3d studio max 5.1 but after exporting as a .3ds file it does not work as the ones in the examples do. I am not sure why? Does anyone know how I can correct this?

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:06 am

How does it not work exactly?

Does the engine print something like "unsupported format"?
Is the returned pointer simply 0?
Does the engine crash?
Freeze?
Does the loaded mesh look wrong?

elvencode · Post by **elvencode** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:26 am

also my 3ds files NOT exported from anim8tor or wings3d, many times doesnt work. they dont load because the file format is too newer. however with another 3ds loader code it loads

niko, the 3ds models are rendered only with face normals? there's no options to have vertex normals? i've a tree to render and the branches are a little too squared

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:00 pm

Ah, I've added some fixed in 0.4.2 maybe it works then. For the normals, sure, I could add this sometime

elvencode · Post by **elvencode** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 1:35 pm

for example, try this model http://www.3dcafe.com/models/pine01.zip
There's a wrong triangle beginning from the bottom of the tree and finishing on top of it, in anim8tor or other viewer i dont see that triangle. Also, is possible to set the leafs to be rendered on both sides and with alpha trasparency? these 2 things will be useful

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 3:24 pm

The problem with this model is that it has lots of triangles, more than 65000 per material. This is a problem with the 3ds loader in irrlicht, it currently does not split the polygons up into more meshbuffers. I'll change this with the next versions.

elvencode · Post by **elvencode** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 5:29 pm

thanks for ALWAYS working on my requests

you're a invaluable worker

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 1:01 am

well after trying to debug the code i found it crashes with a error once it tries to load or maybe even when it tries to read the .3ds file. Engine doesn't even display a message it just crashes. I exported it the normal file->export way using 3ds max v5.1 and it its not like i added anything big only a small box :/

niko · Post by **niko** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:52 am

If you could send me this file, I maybe would be able improve this behavior

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:23 pm

Which file exactly? The code or the 3ds max file?

niko · Post by **niko** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:35 pm

the 3ds file

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:04 am

did you get it emailed it to you hopefully engine will soon erm interpret it? lol
or do you know of a way i can convert my 3ds files now?

niko · Post by **niko** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:07 am

Yes, I got it, but I had no time yet to debug the code. I'll post a solution or write if or how it will be fixed when I had the time.

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:06 pm

Ok, just was wondering, and if anyone knows any exporters that work currently would be nice :/ just cuz I am in a hurry to make things cuz im excited 0.o

malachi · Post by **malachi** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:44 am

perhaps temporarily, you could multirez the tri count of your mesh down to something the engine could handle.

i loaded a huge terrain scene, originally it failed, but then multirezd it down to 33% of original tri and it loads correctly now

Irrlicht Engine

3ds max files?

3ds max files?

multirez?