truespace files

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:33 pm

i found this on how to use true space files. would it be to much work to use this to umport truespace files into irrlicht
http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/articles/a ... article=01

wornaki · Post by **wornaki** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:30 pm

I'm also interested in anim8or files but I can't fully understand how to program a loader, else I would start inmediately with both loaders...

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:14 pm

i asume that irrlicht has a standard way of loading data from a file
we would probable have to create a custom scene node and import vertices from the model file and also the polygon data then just use that custom scene node
is this right or am i going wrong somewhere
i know that anim8or's format to save is in a plain text file and it is easy to understand
her is an example of the anim8or file ( it is a cube 1x1x1 at 0,0,0 and sides are 40 for the x 40 for the y and 40 for the x and it has no texturing)

header {
version { "0.85" }
build { "2003.10.05" }
}
environment {
grid { 1 10 50 50 }
framerate { 24 }
}
object { "object01"
mesh {
name { "mesh01" }
material { " -- default --" }
smoothangle { 45 }
/* 8 points, 6 faces, 8 uvCoords */
materiallist {
materialname { " -- default --" }
}
points {
(-20 -20 -20) (-20 -20 20) (-20 20 -20) (-20 20 20) (20 -20 -20)
(20 -20 20) (20 20 -20) (20 20 20)
}
texcoords {
(0 0) (0 0) (0 1) (0 1) (1 0) (1 0) (1 1) (1 1)
}
faces {
4 4 0 -1 ( (0 0) (4 4) (6 6) (2 2) )
4 4 0 -1 ( (1 1) (3 3) (7 7) (5 5) )
4 4 0 -1 ( (0 0) (2 2) (3 3) (1 1) )
4 4 0 -1 ( (4 4) (5 5) (7 7) (6 6) )
4 4 0 -1 ( (2 2) (6 6) (7 7) (3 3) )
4 4 0 -1 ( (0 0) (1 1) (5 5) (4 4) )
}
}
}

now if i can figure out how to parse the file and extract the model data i could try to create a custom scene node and use the values i obtained

(note on a programming skill scale of 1-10 i am a 0.1 so go figure)
i will eventually figure this out but probably not in time to help any of you that is not before 0.5 release when it will have an8 support built in

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:17 pm

note my bad spelling of "her" instead of here
i sometimes do things like this while programming so it causes me alot of problems
the sad part is that english is my first language

wornaki · Post by **wornaki** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:11 pm

My programming skills in the same scale are near 0.3, 0.4 so I'm by no way better than you, but I think I could make a loader. What is worse of it is that I want support for skeletal animation, despite not having the slightest idea about how to achieve it (coding, of course)

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:27 pm

well here is a link to the docs on the format
http://www.anim8or.com/resources/an8_format.txt
i checked the progress bar thingy and it said nothing was done yet on an8 or x so it may help speed up the release of 0.5
good luck right now i am reading everthing i can on programming to get my 0.1 up to at least 1.0