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[Plib-devel] Blender bridge.

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

How (if at all) are people getting models out of blender and into
PLIB?

I vaguely recall someone talking about a '.ac' exporter - but I can't
find any references to it on the net.   I tried exporting in DXF
and re-importing into PLIB - but everything comes out black.  I tried
exporting in VRML1 and re-importing - but that produced complete garbage.

Help!

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Re: [Plib-devel] Blender bridge.

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

Steve Baker wrote:
> How (if at all) are people getting models out of blender and into
> PLIB?
> 
> I vaguely recall someone talking about a '.ac' exporter - but I can't
> find any references to it on the net.   I tried exporting in DXF
> and re-importing into PLIB - but everything comes out black.  I tried
> exporting in VRML1 and re-importing - but that produced complete garbage.

(Those both seem to be problems with Blender's exporters because AC3D
shows the DXF and VRML1 files looking exactly the same as they do in
PLIB).

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RE: [Plib-devel] Blender bridge.

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Steve Baker writes:
> 
> How (if at all) are people getting models out of blender and into
> PLIB?
> 
> I vaguely recall someone talking about a '.ac' exporter - but I can't
> find any references to it on the net.   I tried exporting in DXF
> and re-importing into PLIB - but everything comes out black.  I tried
> exporting in VRML1 and re-importing - but that produced complete garbage.

I haven't used it but there was a Python exporter module
it appears to be shipped with the latest Blender
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Import___Export.5.0.html

for earlier versions see  < all one URL >
http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc=Modeler%20And%20Scenery%20Builder%20Documentation&wikiid=2418&wpid=123390

Cheers

Norman

Re: [Plib-devel] Blender bridge.

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

Norman Vine wrote:

> I haven't used it but there was a Python exporter module
> it appears to be shipped with the latest Blender
> http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Import___Export.5.0.html

Ah - that's it.  I upgraded to Blended 0.33 and it was there.  Obviously
it got added between 0.23 and 0.33.

There seem to be problems with backfacing polygons - and the model
I was given seems to have been built from spline patches - so all
that came through into AC3D was the control points connected into
polygons somehow.

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