Mesh files

[waronmars]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering if those more gifted in programming than myself have any idea about opening the 3d files from Empire? Is it likely that they'll be able to be opened without tools from CA?

Thanks alot

[waronmars]

I have been looking at the 3d files in a hex editor, and I'm wondering if theres not a way to convert these files into something legible, even if it's not straight into a 3d program. At least to get a list of float values somewhere in the files? Can any coders recognise anything that might be a list of numbers in these files?

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

I think [user]Captian Barbossa[/user] started to write a script for converting, but couldn't finish it.

Just hotlinking my thread to make sure all of you interested in modeling can access it:
Request to CA: please give us a model converter

[Captian Barbossa]

The main reasons I couldn't finish that script are A) I don't know enough about maxscript, and none of the tutuorials I've been able to find say anything about writing exporters (not even the maxscript docs), and B), I have no idea how the files are structured.

The main purpose of the script was supposed to be to import the Rigid Models, although thinking about it, they might be responsible for controlling how the physics engine interacts with the models.

And looking at the output of a hex-editor gives me headaches.

I also tried making a model viewer in C++ using an onlne tut, but I got lost there too, the Express edition of C++ I have wasn't creating several files that Tut said it would do automatically....so....

I think i better just stick to what I know, and stay with 3d moddeling, and leave the programming/script writing to the real programmers on these forums.

[waronmars]

just said he wrote a viewer that works, I hope he writes an importer/exporter...