Got the plane (Screen Shots included)

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:49 am

anyone have a .mesh format plane (flat 4sided) w/ 1000 vets

if you do please post it

i don't really care if it has a texture i just want to try out something that i am making
(i don't really have the 3d utilities to make it)
thx

Edit: i was able to use blender to make a plane

Mr.Bloodworth · Post by **Mr.Bloodworth** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:43 am

Dan wrote:anyone have a .mesh format plane (flat 4sided) w/ 1000 vets

if you do please post it

i don't really care if it has a texture i just want to try out something that i am making
(i don't really have the 3d utilities to make it)
thx

No dot mesh, but i can make you a 3DS, or OBJ.

And do you mean 1000 vertcies or polygons?

baxissimo · Post by **baxissimo** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:00 am

Not having "the 3d utilities" shouldn't stop you. Everything you need is freely available.

Here's what you need to do:

Step 1: Download Blender from http://www.blender3d.org
Step 2: Download Blender to Ogre Exporter from http://www.ogre3d.org under the Dowloads -> Tools section.
Step 3: In Blender make a plane (space-bar -> "Add" -> "Plane")
Step 4: Subdivide to your liking (W key followed by 1 key will do it)
Step 5: Run Ogre exporter to generate a .mesh.xml file.
Step 6: Run OgreXMLConverter on the .mesh.xml to make a .mesh

Or better yet, seeing as how you are probably a programmer and not a 3d artist (one can at least hope), use the OgreXMLConverter to convert any .mesh to XML and examine the resulting format. From there it should be pretty trivial to figure out how to write a simple script in python, or whatever your favorite language happens to be, that will generate the necessary <mesh> and <geometry> and <faces>, etc blocks. It's a pretty simple format for something basic like you want with just one submesh and one or no materials.

One more alternative: build the mesh from scratch programmatically in Ogre. The Water demo basically builds a tesselated plane as its first step. Then it perturbs the Z coords to make waves, but you can leave that part out.

Hope that helps!

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:35 pm

thx Mr.Bloodworth, and baxissimo that will help (i guess i need to learn blender better

) ill try to make one myself

monster · Post by **monster** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:45 pm

What about Ogre::MeshManager::createPlane?

http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/api/html/cla ... hManagera5

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:16 pm

Thx for the response Monster, but i need a .mesh file for the way that i do my collision (triangle ray) and i got a plane made

Post by **nfz** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:06 pm

Dan: once you get Ogre to create the plane for you, you can use the mesh serializer to export it for you to a .mesh file:

http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/api/html/cla ... rializera2

baxissimo · Post by **baxissimo** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:52 am

monster wrote:What about Ogre::MeshManager::createPlane?

Cheater!

Just kidding. Yeh, that sounds like the way to go. Probably a better idea than spending a week trying to learn Blender

.

@dan - are you sure your collision scheme really requires that you load the plane from a .mesh? How could that be? Whether you call MeshManager::getSingleton().createPlane() or load a .mesh from a file, the result is an Ogre::Mesh in memory.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:03 am

well, i didn't know that, but i made a plane in blender

Here is a screenshot of the simple plane

This is another screenshot after the penguin wore a path into the snow

At least i was able to start to make what i wanted

discipline · Post by **discipline** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:25 am

Hey lookin good! That penguin must have been walking for quite a while!

Post by **:wumpus:** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:06 am

Lol, cool penguin

joi · Post by **joi** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:56 pm

Keep it up!

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Got the plane (Screen Shots included)

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Re: anyone have a .mesh format plane (flat 4sided) w/ 1000 v

i finally got one made