B3D FileFormat

_Murphy · Post by **_Murphy** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:57 pm

Hello!

Is there a loader class for B3D FileFormat?
If not - does the exporter for gile[s] for the my3d format works well? didn't test it - asnd have no chance to test for some houres - but need to tell my boss, whats going on.
hope you could help me.

vermeer · Post by **vermeer** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:15 pm

B3d , you mean Blitz 3d format?

No that i know. The x format. If you have Max, you can use free Panda exporter for it.

http://www.andytather.co.uk/Panda/directxmax.aspx

Hm. I guess what you have is giles, and try to export from there. There are several plugins available supporting giles directly. That is, directly native giles format. Loaders for irlicht, that is.

Even more: I have used giles just with the obj export from giles. It'd export one obj with texture(and its uvs), one obj with lightmap (and its uvs) .Later on I tended to use obj2mim and mim format loader.

But there's at least two *.gls (giles format) loaders for irrlicht, if I remember well.

If there was a my3d exporter for giles, well, my3d works cool at irrlicht, so, yup, surely you'r safe so, also.

Only doubt is if the loaders have kept up to date with today's irrlicht versions.

trivtn · Post by **trivtn** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:34 pm

I think you should use the plugin in DeleD to export/import files *.b3d. You can download DeleDLite, and its plugin b3d export/import plugin (free in internet)

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:10 pm

Could u send me some specs of the format and a mesh and i will try to write an importer.

garrittg · Post by **garrittg** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:23 am

here is the link to the specs:

http://www.blitzmax.com/sdkspecs/sdkspe ... _specs.txt

you can get some free models at:

http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/cgi-bin/imag ... D%20Models

i know the ninja has B3D and im pretty sure they all do.

good luck

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:39 am

treemagik 1.0 free exports b3d if you'd like some test meshes, and also I made a simple loader (not very nice though) for the ascii version of the format, purely for importing the trees. its in the code snippets forum

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:32 pm

a b3d loader would totally rule since you could import lightmapped levels into Irrlicht very easily; there are several apps that export to to b3d with no probs: 3d world studio, cshop, deled, Giles. It would truly expand the tool posibilities for Irrlicht and it would also become a great alternative to bsps.

@Sudi: if you achieve anything please let us know!