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[Plib-users] R: PLIB 1.8.4 model readers ehancement

[Paolo L. <p.l...@ci...>]

Rony,
 
Do you refer to the native .gmax format? Is it documented? Can you please
post a link to the format description?
As most of you probably know since the end of 2006 Gmax is no longer
available as a standalone product, but only along with games (and related
game pack). I'd like to know if such versions still save the .gmax format.
 
Currently the only bridge towards the 3DS Max world is the .ase ASCII export
format, but I suppose it is not a GMax-supported export format.
 
Anyway should somebody be willing to do it, it is not difficult to add a new
format reader to Plib/SSG - beyond the available readers' code, I'm sure
developers and advanced users can help on this.
 
Greetings -
 
Paolo Leoncini
 

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Da: pli...@li...
[mailto:pli...@li...] Per conto di Rony Gombis
Inviato: sabato 12 maggio 2007 15.26
A: pli...@li...
Oggetto: [Plib-users] PLIB 1.8.4 model readers ehancement


Hello All,
 
Will there be a new version of the plib which would provide update of  the
model format readers or will specifically add a new reader to the library
for the gmax models format ?  
 
Thanks for your answer.
 
Rony.
 

Re: [Plib-users] R: PLIB 1.8.4 model readers ehancement

[<st...@sj...>]

> Rony,
>
> Do you refer to the native .gmax format? Is it documented? Can you please
> post a link to the format description?
> As most of you probably know since the end of 2006 Gmax is no longer
> available as a standalone product, but only along with games (and related
> game pack). I'd like to know if such versions still save the .gmax format.
>
> Currently the only bridge towards the 3DS Max world is the .ase ASCII
> export
> format, but I suppose it is not a GMax-supported export format.
>
> Anyway should somebody be willing to do it, it is not difficult to add a
> new
> format reader to Plib/SSG - beyond the available readers' code, I'm sure
> developers and advanced users can help on this.

ASE comes from an example plugin that comes with 3DS - but it's only an
exporter.  You can't import ASE into 3DS Max.  I searched for a 3DS plugin
to read ASE - and the only one out there only works with version 4 and 5
of 3DS.  Since 3DS is up to version 8 now, I think it's pretty clear that
3DS doesn't support ASE anymore.

If gmax supports plugins you might stand a chance of getting the example
ASE plugin exporter working in gmax - but it sounds like you'd need to do
some significant effort to write an importer for gmax.

It's pretty easy to adapt PLIB to read/write new formats - there are
dozens of example readers and writers to use as examples.  The issue is
usually a matter of whether you can find documentation for whatever file
format you are dealing with.