New 3dsMax Exporter dll information

Bontakun · Post by **Bontakun** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:32 am

Lioric! Save me! Only 4 days left in this year!

& Phwoar, first post page 8 &

Alas · Post by **Alas** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:19 pm

The plug-in looks great! It indeed saves months and months of work for many MAX users… I can’t wait for the release date, can just hope it will be an xmas gift

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IMO the best way to test fully test the project is to release beta versions to community

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Happy holidays!

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:50 pm

IMO the best way to test fully test the project is to release beta versions to community .

Yeh I agree we will find a lot of issues and things we want it to do.
But beta testing is a good process. It helps the developers to listen better to the few testers.

Vectrex · Post by **Vectrex** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:11 pm

well my artist has all but boycotted out current workflow and stopped until the exporter comes out!

So yeah... um no pressure

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:10 pm

well my artist has all but boycotted out current workflow and stopped until the exporter comes out! So yeah... um no pressure

Yeh same here, I havn't even started to look at the new 3dsmax8 until it comes out. Although we are programming right know.

cheers

IFASS · Post by **IFASS** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:49 pm

less than 2 days to go.. question is.. will he make it?

Grompie · Post by **Grompie** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:30 am

My first post in this topic!

1 Day to go

IFASS · Post by **IFASS** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 11:57 am

Grompie wrote:My first post in this topic!

1 Day to go

Haha,

Talked yesterday to Lioric, it'll be released after the holiday. Currently they're reviewing the tutorials and other documentation.

Just have patience a little while, this is gonna be really nice.

Bontakun · Post by **Bontakun** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:28 pm

Happy New Year +11 minutes. Well for those in eastern Australia anyway.

OK well I guess I can wait a little longer for a new years present. Just not all year, m'kay ?

& er sinbad, i think the forum server time is fast by 12 minutes... &

ajs15822 · Post by **ajs15822** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:10 am

Well the holiday is mostly over for me ;P. I'm so eager to actually use this thing I created a forum account just to tell you.

Sadly I have spent many weeks creating, rigging, and animating my characters in 3dsmax 8 only to find that I cannot export them to OgreXML format (nor can I downconvert them to 3dsmax 7).

So really, you are my last hope, thank you for all the effort you have put into this endeavor and I pray for a speedy release!

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:15 pm

Sadly I have spent many weeks creating, rigging, and animating my characters in 3dsmax 8 only to find that I cannot export them to OgreXML format (nor can I downconvert them to 3dsmax 7).

Hmmm before you go to all that trouble make sure something like it will export at all to Ogre.

There are things that might not exports at all.

Like parametric morphing for biscepts etc.
Where the elbows axis can control the morphing of a part of the mesh.

A really cool feature that I would like to see suported in Ogre and in an exporter...but sadly isn't supported.

Well hopefully we see soon what works and what not.

cheers Lee04

Post by **sinbad** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:02 pm

ajs15822 wrote:Sadly I have spent many weeks creating, rigging, and animating my characters in 3dsmax 8 only to find that I cannot export them to OgreXML format (nor can I downconvert them to 3dsmax 7).

CVS already has a fix to make the existing exporter work in Max 8, you should search the forum.

http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... hlight=max

Like parametric morphing for biscepts etc.
Where the elbows axis can control the morphing of a part of the mesh.

Just sounds like a useful rigging tool to me, to make it easier for the artist to set joints up properly; doesn't sound like anything that can't already be exported to the general skeleton format. If it's not mappable to skeletal deformation then might not be a practical realtime feature anyway. But in any case, anything Max-specific won't make it in unless someone with Max decides to add it. You can dream all you like but unless you're willing to help make it happen, dreaming is all it is. Take a leaf out of Lioric's book and get your hands dirty if you want something done in 3DS.

For example, Dagon includes quite a few new animation features but the chances are that only XSI and Blender will support them initially. Support in other modellers will only appear when people who own them pitch in.

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:27 pm

Yes true. We should be happy if the exporters supports whatever Dagon can do.

I was just saying that not all riggs are exportable.
And before you wast a lot of time you better make sure you can eport it and use it.

It will be intresting to see if we can contribute to Lorics exporter later.
I for will use other packages to export morphing until the 3dsmax supports it. But I will use 3dsmax for everything else.

Post by **jacmoe** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:35 pm

Lioric wrote:The exporter is going to be (and is) opensource

When the thing is ready, you can contribute all you like.

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:08 pm

When the thing is ready, you can contribute all you like.

Very cool. We will contribute.

bravey · Post by **bravey** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:41 pm

Hello guys can any one tell us what the progress of the new exporter?

and will we see new news this week end?

Bontakun · Post by **Bontakun** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:29 pm

I finally have the news we all need to hear. So good is this news, that you have two choices of which news you choose.

Option A: It will be done "in two weeks", *OR*

Option B: It will be done "when it's done".

Should you choose option A, just remember that in two weeks when you ask again if it is ready yet or not, the answer will be "in two weeks". Unfortunatley you can not get your money back and choose option B instead. (*)

((*) Judges decision is final. No correspondence will be entered unto. Spoken by Some Dude. Authorized by Oh Noes That Idiot!.)

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In other words, shush now, don't ask. Everytime you ask adds two eeks (edit: and two weeks) on to the finish time. Wait.

And of course, the final piece of the humor will be Lioric announcing in the next post that it's done...

krazyscotsman · Post by **krazyscotsman** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:50 am

Just wondering if there's any news on this plugin.

Thanks.

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:06 am

Just wondering if there's any news on this plugin.

Oh no! You just added another two weeks!

DrPain · Post by **DrPain** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:35 pm

I feel like a kid on a long car trip.

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?

AcidFaucet · Post by **AcidFaucet** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:02 am

"GASP! The exporter went gold!" -enthusiastic believer

"Oh no, that's just copper" -Lioric

[wimper wimper, sob sob, tear] -entusiastic believer

"Don't worry just 2 more weeks!" -Lioric

"O-o-kay" -enthusiastic believer

"Oh wait, sorry, 2 more weeks until it goes Beryllium" -Lioric

"Well then how long until it goes gold?" - no longer enthusiastic pseudo-believer

"Well, let me think. There's iron, bronze, silver, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, brass, glass, hydrogen, helium, lithium, plutonium, Radon, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Magenta, Pink, Crimson, Red, Blue-Green, Sky-blue, Purple-Orange, Orange-berry, Strawberry Mango, and Pina collada before it goes Gold."

[blink, blink, blink blink] -no longer enthusiastic non-believer

"So that'd be 60 weeks before gold is released" -Lioric

[staring with two differently sized gaping eyes] -no longer enthusiastic non-believing soon to be assassin

"Plus 2 more weeks because you asked about when it was coming out" -Lioric

[eyes bloodshot, a bulging vein is now the very topmost point of the head, nostrils flared] "Fine then, back to painting my warhammer 40k minis" -enlightened and now infinitely more wise former believer and enthusiast

"Oh I forgot one other thing, I'm taking a 6 month vacation next week." -Lioric

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THIS POST IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Joshua · Post by **Joshua** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:57 am

Maybe we could keep this thread a bit less like Open Mic Night at the Improv.

If nothing else I think the jokes are becoming offensive to Lioric, who is actually putting in the work for this tool. I understand that everyone, including my team, is anxious for a release but there is a fine line between inquiry and pestering.

Lee04 · Post by **Lee04** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:04 am

Seriously, I don't think anyone here want to temper with Lioric morale.
We are just cheering because we are so happy with what his is doing.

Lee04

dr_amr · Post by **dr_amr** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:20 am

I hope the exporter will be out soon, last time I checked was a month ago and yet no news, hoping the delay is for a reason ( surprise or something? )

shawng · Post by **shawng** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:04 am

great work..

any chance someone could turn this into a maya plugin > ?

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