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3d modeling question

Postby Falcon500 » Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:25 pm

this is an easy question, i hope.

do any of you know if the 3d designer ProDESKTOP 8.0 can make usable .mdl files (like airplanes)
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Re: 3d modeling question

Postby Felix/FFDS » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:32 pm

Not an easy question if one can't even get to a product description page!

If the program can export a textured and animated )according to the Microsoft SDKs) model into a direct x file, then you can run makemdl.exe on that x file.
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Re: 3d modeling question

Postby Falcon500 » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:36 pm

what sort of ending would that have
(example duh.XXX)? i can export as a bunch of different files.  
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Re: 3d modeling question

Postby Felix/FFDS » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:55 pm

it would be a strict "x" ending as in myplane.x
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Re: 3d modeling question

Postby -sam- » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:32 am

Never ever use a CAD Modelling software for the creation
of 3D Modells.. !! expect you want to build that thing in realworld later. For Visualisation or Realtime Applications CAD Geometry is always the worst choice.
 
I could write now 10 sides to describe
all the problems that could occur with CAD imports.
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Re: 3d modeling question

Postby Falcon500 » Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:07 pm

well thank you Sam, i was just wondering if i could model with ProDesktop. I am taking a class in high school and so far i am making my teacher mad already, many times i cannot do things the exact way he wants them so i "come up" with my own way of doing things.

btw luckily my teacher is 25miles away
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