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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Question about Patch 4

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darkCorridor
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Posted: 11th Mar 2003 17:59
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Hey,

I've heard that in Patch 4 all 3d formats except .x have been removed is this just for Beta testing and they will be there on genral release or is this permanent for Patch 4?
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Chenak
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Posted: 11th Mar 2003 18:37
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its permanent for patch 4, there gonna put them back in for patch 5

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 11th Mar 2003 22:27
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they're not putting them back... they're adding converter functions that convert these formats to DBO on loading.

but i wouldn't worry - cause as soon as i can get my grubby hands on the DBO format there will be some exporters being developed for the more used 3D Packages, Milkshape/Maya/3DS Max - i can't code for Lightwave or trueSpace yet, cause i've never figured out howto get a plugin working.

but hopefully for these main packages will be good enough for most users (especially as most seem to use Milkshape or 'not-quite-legal' 3DS Max)

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darkCorridor
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Posted: 12th Mar 2003 17:48
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thanks!

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Magefire
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So how will the converter functions work? At the beginning, when you tell it to load an object that has a .3ds extension, will it just automatically convert it to the format or do you have to use a function on the file?

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 12th Mar 2003 18:45
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it'll probably do it discreetly and just add like Nth amount of second on the loading time and setting up of the resources

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freak
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removing the useful option to import 3ds files and oblige the users to use a system of convertors?

is'nt that making it all more difficult?
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Rob K
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Posted: 12th Mar 2003 23:46
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DBPro does the conversion automatically.

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^^ Basically in addition to DBPro_Basic3DDebug.DLL there are ConvX.dll, Conv3DS.dll etc. files.

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 13th Mar 2003 00:17
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well done raven get that max plugin ready.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 13th Mar 2003 01:11
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Mike said he'll send me the stuff when the patch is released officially as they might still change the format, sounds a little overly custious to me cause rewriting the model format now would be a little insane on the eve of the patch - but then again i suppose it could happen

so we await the patch ... and hopefully then i can test if it works as well hehee - which is always good

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