Re: [Plib-devel] Model Formats

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Dave McClurg wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:
> > Annoyingly, the current need is to be able to import models built
> > in Blender - this would be very useful for the guys who want to
> > build models for TuxKart under Linux.
> >
> > The snag appears to be (although I'm not a blender expert) that it
> > only exports DXF (no texture - yuk!) and VRML (not supported under
> > PLIB - ack!)
> >
> Interesting...  I wanted to do a "#VRML V1.0 ascii" loader for PLIB a while
> back with the specific goal of importing models created in blender.
> End-users can grab a free copy of blender and create models for our games.
> If that makes sense to you as well, I'll put some work into it and see what
> happens.

Yes - that would be very useful.  I wonder what kind of a subset
of VRML blender actually produces?  A totally general VRML loader
is quite a big deal.

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