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Re: Helper applications for 3D modeling
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:21:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Andrew Westrate wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Lee Gaiteri wrote:
> > I've been long annoyed at the lack of a ponytail hair piece in LDraw, but
> > unfortunately I've never been in much of a position to model one. Modeling new
> > parts is painstaking work. I did get to thinking, though, that for parts that
> > are so complex, why not see if there's some other application to help get the
> > hard parts done faster, then tweak it and convert some parts to primitives for a
> > final piece?
> >
> > I discovered there's a shareware program called Pictomod3D that can convert
> > photos taken at various angles to meshes, textured or untextured. In theory this
> > would be a dandy way to convert an existing part into something usable in LDraw,
> > at least as a first step. Has anyone else used this program, or another program
> > like it, for part modeling? And if not, I wonder if it might be a good idea for
> > the part author community to explore this option.
> >
> > Lummox JR
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> That's pretty interesting, so it's certainly worth a try. Converting to LDraw
> format could be difficult, though. But I know of a tool from another 3d project
> I've been working with, the game VegaStrike, called mesher.exe, which can
> convert .OBJ files to an xml triangular mesh. Once it's in that format, it
> probably wouldn't be too hard to convert it to LDraw triangles.
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> look here for the binary:
> http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vegastrike/trunk/data4.x/bin/
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> Andy
You may want to try 3Dto3D It can convert dat files to and from sevral formats
including obj and 3DS . You can download it at:
http://www.tb-software.com/download_4.html
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