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DarkBASIC Discussion / Will files from Animation Master work?

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Spunky sk8er
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 00:08
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I have animation master and i dont know if any of the ways i can save can be used with dark basic... anyone know ?
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DB newbie
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 00:27
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what kind of files does it save or export?

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Spunky sk8er
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emm i dunno... it saves .prj's and it exports .ply .3ds .av2 and i dunno.... i love the interface and how usable the program is but i dont think its compatible with dark basic... i hope it is... animation master was 200$ -.-
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Dodic
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 01:25
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.3ds will work with dark basic (at least it should)

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Spunky sk8er
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 01:26 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2006 01:38
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good! cause i really love animation master

(edit) anyone for sure that any of these files work with db or not?
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Dodic
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 01:40 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2006 01:41
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.3DS files work for SURE in DB


Though there is a bit of problem, animations in .3ds dont work in Dark Basic, only movement animations in .3ds work, by movement i mean something moving, only that, no rotations or anything else working...

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DB newbie
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 01:51
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3ds will work.

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Jack
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Im not shure. There are a lot of problems with 3ds and animation
- I think it wont work

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nojbox87
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 12:15
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can u not get some sort of converter for them? i dont really know myself just throwing around ideas

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SimSmall
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006 16:42
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Quote: "Im not shure. There are a lot of problems with 3ds and animation "


Some 3DS exporters don't export animations, just the mesh (such as the Milkshape 3DS exporter)

There's also the issue of DB not being capable of reading joints. Objects animated by moving joints around only work in DB Pro
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Quote: "Objects animated by moving joints around only work in DB Pro"



Thats wrong. I can load models with joints in DBC from milkshape but there are a lot of problems if you want to do that. You know there are a lot of diffrent .x and you have to pick the right one out

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SimSmall
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2006 12:38
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Quote: "I can load models with joints in DBC from milkshape"


Fails for me every time - I just gave up and bought DB Pro
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Pincho Paxton
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Actually, models in DB Classic must have joints, but not bones, or mesh deformation.

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Quote: "Actually, models in DB Classic must have joints, but not bones, or mesh deformation.
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Exactly

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Spunky sk8er
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 00:57
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CRAP..... animation master uses bones.... ugh -.-
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SimSmall
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 17:32 Edited at: 4th Mar 2006 17:33
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Quote: "models in DB Classic must have joints, but not bones"


I was taught that they basically meant the same thing

http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/forum_temp/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17918 (Paying particular attention to the last paragraph of the last post)

Now I'm curious, what's the actual difference between the two? (Sorry for hi-jacking your thread spunky...)
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Pincho Paxton
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Bones are parts of a skeleton inside a 3D model or Human. Joints are the polygons that fit around the skeleton in many different parts like hollow cylinders, hands feet, and head.

DBPro can use a whole mesh which is not built from cylinders. More like a human skin. This is called mesh deformation.

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The Nerd
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Posted: 5th Mar 2006 12:42 Edited at: 5th Mar 2006 12:43
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The loading times when using 3DS files in darkbasic can kill... It's much faster to use something like .x... Or even better, .dbo format. But that only works in dbpro...

Why not convert from 3ds to x?

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SimSmall
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Posted: 5th Mar 2006 15:55
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Quote: "The loading times when using 3DS files in darkbasic can kill..."


I've only ever noticed that happen with DB Pro - classic seems to take only a fraction longer to load 3DS files
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