Beginner question

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Alpiro
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Beginner question

Post by Alpiro »

Hello, I have been using Irrlicht for some days now and I would like to start adding some animated meshes on my project. I understood that one of the best format to use is .b3d. Well I know there are lots of posts dealing with this topic already, but they seem quite old and I'm not sure whether the information is outdated or can still be used... so my questions are :

Are there still people using Irrlicht today ? And if so, could you please tell me which version of Blender and which script to use in order to convert fbx files into b3d ? I have never used 3D models before, so I'm a really beginner in it. Could you please help me guys. Thank you so much.
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Re: Beginner question

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I'm still working with Irrlicht. But I haven't worked much with animated models in last years as I mostly do architecture stuff (which uses static models).
But the way I would try is: Blender already has a FBX importer build in. And as I just learned this week from user kormoran in the forum, he did update the .B3D exporter to work with new Blender versions: https://github.com/GreenXenith/io_scene_b3d/tree/master

And then I'd use the Irrlicht modelviewer example to see if it works.
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