 | | Re: Ahhh... the soil of my toil —Steve Bliss
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| | | Wow. You went through all the processing to combine co-planar, congruent triangles into equivalent quads? I'm in awe. Have fun! Steve (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Ahhh... the soil of my toil —Jeff Boen
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| | | | (...) well... yeah... i mean... that cuts the number of lines in the .DAT in half... heehe... i figure i should try to make the .DAT as compact as possible, since converting from a 3DS model is going to mean i won't be using any LDraw primitives.. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Ahhh... the soil of my toil —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Doesn't 3DS have objects which are equivalent to LDraw's primitives? Seems like commercial software would want to be able to do curved surfaces... (...) Ahh. Well, I guess it did. Steve (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Ahhh... the soil of my toil —Jeff Boen
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| | | | (...) nope.. i mean, you can create a sphere or cylinder, etc. in 3DS with primatives, but in just about all commercial modeling/rendering software (lightwave, softimage, MAX) everything is distilled down to verts/faces... those primitives are still (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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