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Uncle Sam
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I searched and searched for over an hour on the web, and couldn't find any free animator that can import and export .3ds or .x files. I need something made for animations. It's such a pity that Anim8or doesn't export animations in models. Please, anyone, is there an animator out there that I can use?!

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 00:17
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Blender, get your head around the GUI and you will be very very happy, but getting your heard around the GUI may require some work, but its a very powerful tool for free, heck you can make your own lightmaps with Baker in Blender, I never got my head around the GUI, because I already have my desired app

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 00:24
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Quote: "free animator that can import and export .3ds or .x files"


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Mucky Muck Ninja
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 00:44
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Say how do you bake lightmaps in blender...would be nice for my game.

Yes..im asking a question about blender

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 00:49
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Um, what about my question?

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Mucky Muck Ninja
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 00:57
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Sorry ive just been wondering about that. I guess since blender can't import .x you wouldn't want it, there aren't many free animators out there tho. I'm going to buy character FX I think as blender doesn't always export the animation correctly. Character FX is only 15 bucks and it loooks rather good. Blender is the only free animator i can think of that sometimes works in dbpro.

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 01:02
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Thanks.

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 10:31
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Why don't you just find a 3ds to .x converter and use blender.

@ Ooga Booga, I dunno how to bake lightmaps in blender, but I think it might just set up your scene, look for the baker tool, and click on bake, if not look for Baker tutorials, be careful when searching because Cinema 4D has baker too

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 19:43
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Quote: "Why don't you just find a 3ds to .x converter and use blender."


I can't, because Blender can't import .3ds or .x

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 22:34
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There should be plugin for blender that allows that

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2005 23:18
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Maybe, but anyways, when I do import an object, like .obj, it removes the texture!

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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 00:51
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I think .objs don't work with textures, every app I've used with them have no texture, generally I use them to contain UV map data into UVmapper

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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 01:08
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Oh, ok. Thanks.

One more thing: is there a way to rename a limb of an object?

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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 01:19
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Dunno, I've never used Blender, but you should be able to, i use Cinema 4D primarily

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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 01:30
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OK, thanks for all your help!

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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 17:20
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Objs contain materials. The texture path and filename are exported to a seperate file which will be the same name as the obj but with an .mtl extension.
The app that exports the obj will need to export the mtl as well. Same thing goes for the importing app. Usually stuck under some import options.
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