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hmm
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Is it possible to export an object from DBPro to a textured/coloured .X/.3DS file? Wouls it require a special plugin? Is one available?

...just curious.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2004 02:48
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It's quite simple to create a .X file from an object, although you do lose limb data and maybe animation data too - I've not experimented with that part.

MAKE MESH FROM OBJECT 1,1
SAVE MESH "Filename.x", 1

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hmm
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But don't you lose texture/color with the save mesh command?

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That depends ...

I've used this method to rescale X objects before - if the original model contains a reference to a texture, then that reference is kept.

I've never tested to see what happens to any textures that you add using code within your program.

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Something to remember, .X has a plain text format. In theory, you can write anything that .X supports using simple file IO. It just may not be as easy as you expect it to be since you have to learn about templates and such.
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So in theory you could make a 3D model editing program out of DB?

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x binary however is one more step to prevent people adjusting your models.

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the x file comes in 3 flavours
1 - text
2 - binary
3 - binary compressed

and you can tell what it is by looking at the first line


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rogue the camper, yes, you can make an X editor/modeller out of DBP. You'd have to study the format, but you can get the info on that by downloading the DirectX SDK from Microsoft for free.

Binary is also possible since you can write memblocks, but for game dev purposes I think that would be overkill. If you need compression and better security, just use ZIP or some other archive format for your models.
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Yeah, I've been just playing around with the plain text version. Now able to edit some stuff using notepad. Thanks for all your responses.

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