Re: [Plib-devel] RE: Model Formats

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

Ben Woodhead wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Thanks for your help Dave and Steve. You are right I did know about ssg and
> ac3d, and I was looking to find if any of the new types where implemented.
> Know I can find a modeler for these formats.
> One think is there any other modelers around that support ssg format other
> then pretty poly.

No - nothing else will support '.ssg' format - that is something that is
unique to PLIB's SSG module.  PrettyPoly supports it only because it
happens to use SSG - so it was easy.

SSG was never intended to be an 'export' file format - but it is the
best format to build models in PPE initially since it guarantees to
save every single flag and option EXACTLY as you modelled it.  Every
other format will have odd missing things or subtle errors in conversion.

If you happen to use PrettyPoly for modelling *and* PLIB/SSG for rendering
in your application, then you'll get perfect WYSIWYG since the model will
for sure look the same in the modeller as it does in your application.

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