Is there a description of the sdo format?
Edit: also, same question for 3do.
Are there any mods that are using sdo at the moment? How easy is it to convert a mod into sdo? What are advantages of each of 3do and sdo?
sdo format?
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I think you mean s3os.
Um unless you've got the source models you'll basically have to redo the 3do models from scratch, at least I had lots of troubles with importing stuff I exported from upspring. In theory you'd have to UV map the 3dos and then skin it so it takes some time.
There's a faster way though using Milkshape3d and a third party 3do importer. It creates a simple face to face UV map and assembles all textures the model uses on a 512 (or 256?) texture map. You'll need the source GAFs for this to work though, that's the TA container format for graphics. You can then export the model and texture back to obj, import it in your favorite modeling app and start exporting stuff in single pieces again for setting up the s3o in upspring. It takes some time, but not as much as redoing from scratch apparently.
The plugin can be found on fileuniverse.com in the TA section IIRC. Don't have the link to the offical site right now.
I think it's best to bug jcnossen about file format descriptions.
Um unless you've got the source models you'll basically have to redo the 3do models from scratch, at least I had lots of troubles with importing stuff I exported from upspring. In theory you'd have to UV map the 3dos and then skin it so it takes some time.
There's a faster way though using Milkshape3d and a third party 3do importer. It creates a simple face to face UV map and assembles all textures the model uses on a 512 (or 256?) texture map. You'll need the source GAFs for this to work though, that's the TA container format for graphics. You can then export the model and texture back to obj, import it in your favorite modeling app and start exporting stuff in single pieces again for setting up the s3o in upspring. It takes some time, but not as much as redoing from scratch apparently.
The plugin can be found on fileuniverse.com in the TA section IIRC. Don't have the link to the offical site right now.
I think it's best to bug jcnossen about file format descriptions.
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Ok. Just asking hypothetically you understand 
Edit: first successful load of an s3o from C#
C# s3o loader class (GPL):
http://manageddreams.com/csai/S3oLoader.cs
There's something missing in the rendering, something to do with team colors and alpha textures, but the loader itself seems ok.
Edit: updated file header to integrate original header
Edit: first successful load of an s3o from C#
C# s3o loader class (GPL):
http://manageddreams.com/csai/S3oLoader.cs
There's something missing in the rendering, something to do with team colors and alpha textures, but the loader itself seems ok.
Edit: updated file header to integrate original header
Last edited by hughperkins on 02 Dec 2006, 03:36, edited 2 times in total.
