Axis coordinate systems are a neccesary evil. 3dsMax was originally AutoDesk 3D Studio, and came along AutoDesk AutoCad, which uses X Y for surface coordinates, and Z for height... 3dsMax began being used for videogames much later. Most videogames use DirectX or OpenGL axis coordinate systems, which...

So? You can always have another versio This doesn't make sense to me either. I think you again draw a line between Blender and "stand alone" tools without a valid reason. 1) all versions of Blender are available for download from the official site 2) Blender doesn't require installation, ...

Blender is a powerful 3d modeller. Blender is a great choice if you want to write an importer/exporter as anyone can use your script because the program is completely free, unlike very expensive tools like Max and Maya. In fact users of these expensive tools shouldn't complain, because they can jus...

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I was reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_mesh and noted the various different ways to store information and thought it was pretty useful. Most of the ones I've run into so far are the face-vertex type. Are there any other common ones that aren't listed here? For games, vertex/face storage...

Ive been trying to get a model ingame. The problem is the model has ALOT of polys and there seems to be a vertex limit for the weighting.Causing the model to explode ingame. example here http://s759.photobucket.com/albums/xx237/trumpdog01/?action=view&current=3859.jpg I know it can be done, i j...

Thank omfgpota but i want to make a psp model ripper . Because there is already a model pc ripper, and my program would have no chance 3D model rippers use the "man in the middle" hacking technique to read the 3D models. in the case of a PC, most games use DirectX or OpenGL to render grap...

phlyingpig wrote:what format are the model files are?
is it possible to figure out the models of other games made by the same company? I mean capcom.

Lord of shadows was not developed by Capcom, and not by any japanese company.

It was developed in Spain by Mercury Steam studios.

Hi I was able to rip 3d models from PS2 game Silpheed Lost Planet. The 3d models were quite tricky, since, instead of storing raw sets of vertices and triangles, it stores what I think it's raw GPU command batches. I can't release source code yet since the ripper is part of a much larger library I n...

Hi Someone has ever stumbled upon this file format? Things I found: identifier is 6 bytes "CRICMP" immediately after that, there's a sequence of chunks of 34 bytes, where the last two bytes seem to be CRCs, this is consistent over all the file Just after the header, there's a few bytes tha...

I've just heard while searching google about a program that can rip models from video files. Here is the official site: http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/ It is currently in development, but will be released in the near future. It is probably the envy of most any 3d Modeler. :D That kind o...

Okey, looks like I'm kicking sand, so I'll keep working on my own stuff, as everybody else, I guess

Cheers

Hi I've noticed there's a lot of people in here working in several tools, most of them based on homegrown libraries, etc Also, I've seen several attempts to create a common project/tool to integrate all different efforts under the same umbrella; looks like all of them have failed, mostly because the...