Spring RTS Engine

Posted: **19 Oct 2011, 20:43**

I tripped over this article, and thought it may be interesting for a mod-dev: "36 Free 3D Model Sites Compatible with Free Blender Animation Projects": http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/col ... n_projects

It's interesting, because the article also talks about the licenses:

Digging through ÔÇ£freeÔÇØ sites to sort the ÔÇ£free beerÔÇØ from the ÔÇ£free speechÔÇØ content is quite a chore. Many of the sites are not useful for free culture projects, and many make it very difficult to tell. Fortunately for you, I took notes! Here you will find 8 sites with free-licensed content, 8 more with licenses that youÔÇÖll probably find acceptable for many projects, and 20 others that might be useful on some projects if youÔÇÖre not a purist. There are also 22 sites I have to warn you away from, because their terms are incompatible with use in free-licensed productions.
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Posted: **19 Oct 2011, 21:51**

we need a niche for dan, he is a super helpful guy damnit!

Posted: **20 Oct 2011, 11:05**

Nice article, got some useful sites there :D

Posted: **20 Oct 2011, 18:10**

problem is, only few things actually work with spring.
One common problem is that textures are split into multiple files, ie a car has seperate textures for wheels, body, inside.
Is there an easy way to combine that into one texure without having to re-uvmap everything?
ie this turtle has 5 textures:
http://www.top3dmodels.com/animals/rept ... ellow-head

Posted: **20 Oct 2011, 21:02**

A solution to that is to merge the textures in photoshop, and the transform the UV space for each piece accordingly.

The following code is in python and supports .OBJ files only:

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print 'linear transform a model`s uv space, by Beherith (mysterme@gmail.com)'
print 'usage: python uv_linear_transform_obj.py [modelname.obj] [a] [b] [c] [d] [newmodelname.obj]'
print 'where A is the multiplier and B is the offset of the U coords'
print 'and   C is the multiplier and D is the offset of the V coords'
print 'Unew=U*a+b 	Vnew=V*c+d'
import sys
infile=open(sys.argv[1],'r').readlines()
outfile=open(sys.argv[6],'w')
a=float(sys.argv[2])
b=float(sys.argv[3])
c=float(sys.argv[4])
d=float(sys.argv[5])
for line in infile:
	if 'vt' in line:
		linesplit=line.split()
		u=float(linesplit[1])
		v=float(linesplit[2])
		u2=a*u+b
		v2=c*v+d
		outfile.write('vt '+str(u2)+' '+str(v2)+'\n')
	else:
		outfile.write(line)
print 'Done!'

Enjoy!

Spring RTS Engine

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