Modeling question

[spiritplumber]

All I found on vegastrike's wiki was info about xmesh and xunit. What do I make of bfxm? It seems to be a successor format.... how do I go back and forth? ^^;

 

[hellcatv]

there's a mesher.exe to convert back and forth

for instance say you have an obj file myfile.obj and myfile.mtl
mesher myfile.obj myfile.bfxm obc
then you can go back
mesher myfile.bfxm myfile.xmesh bxc
and so forth

you might want the newest mesher
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/vegastrike/data4.x/bin/mesher.exe
the newest mesher is always there

 

[MamiyaOtaru]

use mesher.exe

xmesh to bfxm:
mesher.exe ./yourxmesh1.xmesh ./yourbfxm.bfxm xbc (that's Xmesh Bfxm Create)
mesher.exe ./yourxmesh2.xmesh ./yourbfxm.bfxm xba (Xmesh Bfxm Add for the second mesh and all after it)

bfxm to xmesh:
mesher.exe ./yourbfxm.bfxm ./yourxmesh.xmesh bxc (will create all the xmeshes, just run once)

 

[spiritplumber]

awesome, i'm playing with it now! How about the .cob format? I understnad that's what Origin used for wc3/4... is it something only they have an editor or converter for?

 

[hellcatv]

you have to download deep exploration to convert cob to obj

there are other 3d editors that use cob... writing a converter from cob is really annoying if you want to preserve textures

I'm sure there are people in the WC community that can help you convert models...mkruer had a cob converter I thought for instance

 

[BradMick]

wow..... cob format means they used Truespace....what in gods name was origin thinking?! to go from max for WC2, Privateer...to truespace....ouch. bad, bad thinking on their part. *shrugs* oh well.

 

[spiritplumber]

Maybe it was because ships in wc2/priv were pre rendered and wc3 was supposed to be rendered in realtime on a pentium 75....

 

[Cyberion]

nah, it doesn't metter, cause everything depends on the amount of the polies.

I think that Origin was asked to pay more money fro using max,s models (3ds i bet), truespace might turned to be cheaper at this case.