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3 Dimensional Chat / Exporting .X from AutoCAD

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Hoose
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 06:12
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Anyone know a way to do this? I use ACAD daily and am very proficient with 3D modeling, but haven't had any luck finding a .X exporter. I'm using v2004, but have all the other versions as well since v10. Thanks!

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 14:13
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What file formats does it export? you might not be able to find a exporter, but there are plenty of converters out there

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Hoose
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 23:52
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Well I can save it out as .DWG or .DXF, or I can export it to .3DS, .WMF, .BMP, .SAT, .STL, .EPS, .DXX. Although only 3DS looks useful (other than .DXF).

I haven't been able to get any 3DS files to work in DBP, but .X files work fine. Maybe I'm missing something with trying to load up 3DS files.

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Heckno
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 00:01
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why not export to 3DS and then convert to x from 3DS? Something like Milkshape or lithunwrap would be able to make the conversion from .3DS to .X ( i think, let me check) Mikshape works....
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Seppuku Arts
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What he said lol, lithunwrap should be a good converter, i find it doesn't keep my smooth data so I have to optimise my model in C4D and apply the smoothing again

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Van B
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 14:57
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AutoCAD is really not the best software for game modelling.

That's why the guys who made AutoCAD also made 3DS Max - I'm not sure exporting to DXF would give suitable results, and 3DS export might not give a usable mesh.

It might be worth looking into other modelling options, personally, coming from a 2D CAD/engineering background, I really like Rhino3D, as it uses solid NURBS, which can be broken down into optimised polygons.


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