file format request

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:51 am

Is there a possibillity to add the w3d (shockwave 3d) format to the engine.
It would be really helpful because it supports textures (uv's), animation (Bone + PLA) etc.

What do you think about this?

cheers,
chris

niko · Post by **niko** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:39 pm

Hm, is there an editor which supports this format? Or are there good exporters for modelling packages?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:00 pm

no editor supports this format.

and there is no converter for that format available. I ask because i model in C4d wich an just export static 3ds meshes. So there is no way to export animated characters. I know the w3d format from creating character animations for usage in Director.

niko · Post by **niko** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:05 pm

As I can read on the www, Cinema4d supports the .x file format as export. And the .x file format also supports animations. So you'll be happy with release 0.5

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:08 am

the bad thing is ... that c4d is not supporting the animation feature for the *.x format

I got a good workaround for this problem ... model in c4d ... export to 3ds (because no converter can convert the 8.5 format from C4D) then load into Milkshape ... rig there ... then animate in CharacterFX and export as ms3d Ascii file then export as md2 ... that is very time intense ... but it's a solution.

I will push Maxon to implement an the animation feature to the *.x format.

greetings,
chris

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:06 am

Ah, I understand. That's bad.
Or another solution would be to export to 3ds and export this in MAX to .x. But also not to quickes method.