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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / convert x to 3ds?

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Southside Games
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Posted: 9th May 2010 17:58
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hello. I know theres a program the converts 3ds to x. but is there one that dose it the other way around?

I would like something that can convert an x, map, or b3d to an...

.3ds
.ac
.dxf
.ldr
.dat
.mpd
.lwo
.obj
.off
.pf
.pts
.bsp
.md2
.rwx
.smf
.sof
.stl
.ter
.tri
.vec
.r2v
.wrl (VRML v1.0)

thanks.
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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 9th May 2010 18:40
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You can import .x files into Milkshape3D, and then export it into many different formats, 3DS included.

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Southside Games
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Posted: 9th May 2010 19:08
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is milkshape free? if not how much is it?
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C0wbox
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Posted: 9th May 2010 19:17
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Try LithUnwrap.

Milkshape isn't free but I have both and prefer LithUnwrap for quick conversions.

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Mobiius
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Posted: 9th May 2010 21:06
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truespace will do it, and is now free.

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XFS Illusion
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This does remind me of something i'm curious about. Which models load better in DBP? 3ds seems a bit slow, wondering if .x is better.

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BMacZero
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Posted: 9th May 2010 22:36
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.X is much better. .DBO is the best, but not many programs can do it.


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@ XFS Illusion
.x is bound to be faster than .3ds as it's the raw DirectX format and DBP uses DirectX. However, .dbo is probably going to be faster still.

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Mobiius
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Posted: 10th May 2010 18:12
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DBO is the fastest as it's DBs native format. X is next as it's quick to load, but it gets converted internally into DBO format anyway.
3DS shouldn't really be used as it's no longer supported due to it's many varying file formats.

Some people however will create all their object in 3ds format when developing them, then save them to X format for DB use. (Then convert them into dbo format for speed)

I however, use truespace's native SCN for scene information and save to X format for game use.

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Posted: 10th May 2010 20:39
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Did you know that DBC loads .X formats blazingly fast? You can load like a 20k polygon object with high texture resolution in a few seconds, where DBP takes around 6 minutes to load the same model. Why?

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Garion
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Quote: "
Did you know that DBC loads .X formats blazingly fast? You can load like a 20k polygon object with high texture resolution in a few seconds, where DBP takes around 6 minutes to load the same model. Why?
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Hmm it doesn't on my 10 years old PC... it takes only few seconds for me to load a 20k model in DBP
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Posted: 11th May 2010 14:42
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Doesn't even take me that long to load one?

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Back on topic you can load 3ds into fragmotion and save as dbo/x and several other formats. It's free (if you can ignore the requests to purchase) and also does animation...

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Quote: "Did you know that DBC loads .X formats blazingly fast? You can load like a 20k polygon object with high texture resolution in a few seconds, where DBP takes around 6 minutes to load the same model. Why?"


Are you kiding ?

cheers.

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Southside Games
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Posted: 12th May 2010 10:10
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thanks for the help guys
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TheComet
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Nope. If you want I can make a video about it... I noticed that it's not actually the poly count, but more the texture resolution that makes DBP lag...

Sorry to go off-topic again...

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Plssssssssssss

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