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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / 3D model animation software compat. with dbpro?

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sovr
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Posted: 19th Jan 2012 22:44
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I guess this could go into a different category on the forums, but I was wondering if there is anyone that knows a good 3D animation software that works well with dbpro? I have tried autodesk 3DS but a lot of times texture and some animation functions will not work with the 3D model (using dbpro). Thank you a lot for your help!

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Brendy boy
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Posted: 19th Jan 2012 22:54
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3D Studio Max + Pandasoft X exporter works 100%

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Quel
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Does that stand for bone (skinned mesh, vertex animation, you know...) animation as well? Because i haven't had much luck with that so far, although some people just keep saying that should work too.

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seppgirty
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Posted: 19th Jan 2012 23:51
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you can use fragmotion, milkshape 3d, blender.... anything that exports animated .x files.

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SoftMotion3D
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Posted: 20th Jan 2012 01:42 Edited at: 20th Jan 2012 01:43
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you can use modelprop.... but it still is in beta stages.

(It was designed for low vertex count editting mainly but does mesh limb linking and animations)

http://www.my3dworld.ca/modelprop.html

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chafari
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Quote: "Does that stand for bone (skinned mesh, vertex animation, you know...) animation as well? Because i haven't had much luck with that so far, although some people just keep saying that should work too."


Hi there.... Yes Quel and the rest of friends as Brendy boy says, 3DMax and panda exporter works perfect, but we have to export to .x and not .3ds .I have used long ago and I think that is even veter than Milkshape or any other. As all of you sure know, 3DMax is a proffesional program instead off the programs just made for games...and Pandasoft made a good plugin that give to 3DMax the ability of exporting single animated x mesh.

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SoftMotion3D
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does panda actualy export a .x animated? i thought it only did a single solid mesh. Interesting....

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chafari
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Quote: "does panda actualy export a .x animated"


Yes it does....There are Quest 3D exporter for nearly all 3D programs too .

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Naphier
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Blender is quite professional these days and supports all of the above.
Plus it is free.... 3DSMax is ridiculously priced.

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sovr
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Posted: 20th Jan 2012 17:46
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The thing is I get all of the autodesk software for free sense I am mentoring for my old high schools frc robotics team (just a year ago I was a student). But blender is a very good software to use... I just didn't spend time working with it.

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Mobiius
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Truespace is free now and is my modeller of choice. (But I prefer a really old version!)

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 21st Jan 2012 14:31 Edited at: 21st Jan 2012 14:31
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You can export animated models for DBPRO using Blender as mentioned. Just enable the exporter in the latest version of Blender using the user preferences.

Note this point by SIDS and consider my guide for exporting Blender models for the engine.

I have recently made the effort to learn Python so maybe in the near future I make some extra features in Blender for DBPRO.

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