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3 Dimensional Chat / Level Formats. As in which and why?

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Shadow Coderer
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Posted: 25th Jan 2007 21:27
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Well, Ive seen many examples of people using the .x file format for in-game levels and maps.
On the otherhand, 3d world building programmes export to .map and .bsp amongst others.
So my point is, what justifies paying £50 minimum for 3d world studio when I could use the wonderful and easy Gamespace to make a .x object and export it like that? Descriptions, advantages and disadvantages to all possible formats for a level to be used in DBPro are welcome and very much appreciated. I only hope this is the right section of the forum for this question

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indi
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Posted: 6th Mar 2007 05:16
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BSP map making for DBP can be a headache as there is little information and not many people have successfully exported BSPs that work like a charm. Ive managed to get a couple of quake 2 BSPs downloaded from the internet to work years ago so things may have changed. my simple tests would never show up.

When you make a map in an X file format your going to gain all the features that would not normally be available in say a BSP, rigidity vs collision speed is what the pay off is.
BSP maps are pre calculated and rigid but faster for cpu work, x files could be bent and moved but have a little more cpu work to do in collision however check this out.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=10315&b=6

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Shadow Coderer
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Posted: 6th Mar 2007 20:25
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Thank you for responding, indi. That alone deserves praise because I was convinced this thread had long since died, rotting in the depths of the forum. Do you have any experience with .map since this is the only format that I have not heard anything about in any of the posts that I have made regarding this question? Would you say that 3dworld studio would be a better tool for creating levels over gamespace? Thanks again, I hope I am not asking to much

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indi
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 08:31
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sorry mate, ive never explored those formats and programs, Ive recently bought into maya so im
heading that way. Check out with google those questions and file formats.

That X file collision system was really fast on my older crappy machine in that link i provided.
It would be a good solution as you could have deformable map elements with an X file but not with BSP.

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