The old format can handle at the very least 2000 polygons and 360+ unique objects on a single model without much of a problem (though that figure hasn't been stress tested at high numbers of the unit). I imagine the new format can at least match that.

Pieces are more costly than polygons in both formats.

Hmm.. will the new model system eventualy feature "real" animation rather than the scripted anims whe have now?

What you say is maddness

We must have scriptd animations. Its not possibel to do otherwise.

And besides, this is a new *model* system, the new scripting system will come later.

We already have the scripting system....


Reread my post, all i'm asking for is a way to animate models normaly.

I've been experimenting with this, but I get aC++ runtime error from the new exe


edit: happens on the unit texture loading

I had the same problem, I extracted the textures and put them in the spring folder directly...

Same prob here too..

it happens when u hav shadows enabled.

Threre are some new shaders required for it to work with shadows.
Download this file and extract it into your spring/shaders directory and it should work.
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/temp/shaders.zip

works okay with them, thanks :D

Yay! Springs first UV mapped Rubiks Cube!



Not sure why it's semi-buried though, always like that however I change it in 3dsm?

The XZ plane in 3ds should be the ground in spring.
Move the object in the Y direction in 3ds and it should be placed above ground.

Argh, fixed, I'm used to Rhino/LW and forgot the axes are different in 3dsm

who's the chap in your picture? he deserves a prize for solving the Rubik's Cube

British Commander from TACW.

What's evenmore impressive is that the damn thing must be about 10 foot square (cubed, even), must be eating his weetabix.

which leads me on to... Does the s3o have/will it ever have support for skeletal animation?

I'm just about to put those bridges i've got into the new format.
they should keep the original model's colour so they'll look better

any chance of anyone making a 3d viewer for the new format or an import plugin for 3d Studio Max

The S3O format probably won't, however a format with skeletal animation is somewhere on my own wishlist (not very high though)


I'm working on that right now... (as I said earlier in this thread, but I don't think anyone noticed that... )

oops I missed it anyway

is the new model format supported for features? cos I can get the map with the bridges in .s3o format to load

bridge.s3o=no file error message

HI, cant u just make exporter for lightwave or at least MAX 5.0 ?
or make s3o builder in tradition of 3dobuilder i;e able to read from 2 or 3 important format, maybe with its own uv builder...
I cant run MAX7 even if I have (MAX-7 is resource sucking bitch and I only use athlon 650 )

ALso what format did it support ?
1. UVW ??
2. How to attach between part ?
3. triangle or quad ? since it MAX i believe it is triangle though
4. To export it i must make standard mesh or MAX polygon (convert to poly ?)
any tutorial for that ?

The cube in s3o works good. (I didn't texure it). on the right side of the screen you see an ugly big LLT. I that's an 3do unit I made (And trew texures on).


Same LLT in s3o, untexured. looks kinds buggy ^.^'
Trying to fix that.

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So I did, still light blue, but it works!


Looks like triangles to me.
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