new headquarters and modeling - all here now.

[ratarf]

Good job, looks great!

[Lixtan]

Don't forget to leave us the meshfiles when you think you are finished, as we currently don't have an exporter to the PIE format.

I don't think I understand what you mean by 'mesh files.'

[DevUrandom]

Well, you created models, also called meshes. And the files which contain them, in Blender, 3DSMax or Maya format, would be what we needed. So not that you silently pass away and we stand there with nice pictures of awesome models, but have no chance to ever get the actual files.

[Lixtan]

Oh. What format do we want them in, then? I'll upload with that. Also, do we want each piece individually?

Like, if so, I would only be uploading one body at a time?

Or would all of them at once work?

[DevUrandom]

Really doesn't matter to me... If you created the models in Blender (I think you did, didn't you?) then you can safely upload it in that format.
You can put them all into one zipfile. One body per modelfile would be nice, though.

[Lixtan]

No, no, I made them in Rhino. (I prefer Rhino over Blender, it can do more, and it's easier to use.) I can export in all the formats that Blender can, though, so it doesn't matter which I use.

[rush2049]

may I suggest using AC3D format, or .ac files to store the mesh's for now.  Untill we get an export script to convert to the updated pie files...

Blender already has a .pie import script....  its nice, kinda to look at the old models in all there blockyness.

[Lixtan]

Cool, that works. Here they are:

[cybersphinx]

Blender already has a .pie import script....  its nice, kinda to look at the old models in all there blockyness.

Sou yoou have a PIE import script for Blender that works? Can you post that here please?

Oh, and as for a model format, COLLADA is supposed to be an interchange format, don't know if it can do anything AC3D can't though.

[karmazilla]

Hmm... AC3D seems pretty simple... I might be tempted to have a stab at prototyping some converter'ish thingy over the weekend. And on that note; I wrote a PIE file manipulation API in Java a while back - does anybody know where the source, or even a compiled .jar file is to be found? lav_coyote? Anyone?

[lav_coyote25]

where did you post it karma?
if its anywhere it MAY be on the rts site... i will have a look in my "archives" ::)  approximate when did you do this?

[karmazilla]

Um... I think it at some point got uploaded to the berlios file server, not sure though... Cranphin used it in the later versions of his pie file viewer app, which I don't have either.

[lav_coyote25]

;D hmmm is this the right thing?

[rush2049]

I believe this is the import script that I aquired, who knows where....

it can import the .pie files, but cannot export anything, and also it only supports the resolution of the pie files we have now....  (to be changed later)

[Watermelon]

I believe this is the import script that I aquired, who knows where....

it can import the .pie files, but cannot export anything, and also it only supports the resolution of the pie files we have now....  (to be changed later)

I looked at the file,it seems the import script is intergrated into blender(import 'Blender' and calls blender functions directly via python),so it will be very hard to modify or reverse the procedure in this script to make export script.

I think a hacky script/converter that is independent from blender might be a better approach for exporting blender model to pie if both formats are 'plain text'(pie is plain text not sure about blender's),but unfortunately I am not familiar with both formats...