DeleD Community Edition

[Paul-Jan]

Don't you just hate manually sorting through your texture files, whenever you want to share your favorite DeleD scene with someone else? Tired of manually unzipping textures into the correct texture folder, somewhere on your harddisk?

The solution is here: DeleD Package Importer/Exporter Plugins.

Using the exporter, you can export your scene and all required textures into a single packed file, called a .DPS file (DeleD Packaged Scene).

Using the importer, you can import a .DPS file in a single click. The scene will be loaded into DeleD (so you can save it under any name you like), while the textures are automatically copied into your DeleD texture folders.

This functionality will eventually be included in the DeleD core application, but for now you can simply use these plugins to get the functionality into any recent version of DeleD.

As always, any feedback (bugs, requests, praise, etc) is most welcome!

Note for those who are technically minded: a .DPS file is just a renamed .ZIP file, so it's certainly possible to manipulate them by hand, if so desired.

[Mr.Fletcher]

Now it would be cool to have some kind of online database here at delgine.com, where you could upload your scenes to
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[stressless]

I agree with mr. flether,
a online database with "public" files made by deled users.
It should be a big task, but i think the results will be worth it.

[elementrix]

ah thanks paul this is so incredibly usefull.

And yes an online database would be perfect
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[elementrix]

sorry to say, but I think the .dps extension already exists!

if I make a dps file the Divx player sees it as a file of his kind.

Divx Player Skin File

I might be mistaken ofcourse.

EDIT: you might also want to make DeleD capable of opening dps files straight away, instead of having to download the plugin, just make it available to save and open this file. It's awesome!
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[Mr.Fletcher]

You're very lucky if you find an extension that doesn't already exist.
Guess how many .dat formats there are
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[elementrix]

well extensions can go up to 4 letters? (like .tiff) so you can have 26x26x26x26 = 456976 different combinations that isn't that hard to make a new one right xD

I also had one other question, it is possible to see how the code of the dps file is build up, because wordpad can't open it here. or if you save the file, the dxs and textures just get's saved in all the proper folders?
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[Mr.Fletcher]

[Starnick]

[elementrix]

or the .nothing format:P what would that be xD oh you can't make the word . x x x :O
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[Daaark]

There is nothing wrong with .dps. There are no extension police.
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[ridwan sameer]

Good Plugin, This is awesome

Although i still havent created any large scenes, i think this will be very useful for experienced modellers

[jwatte]

Btw: extensions can go to any number of letters you want. For example, we use ".schema" and ".animation" and ".material" as extensions. You can register them in Windows, and they work out just fine, just like any three-letter extension. The three letters are just a convention. And there are lots of collisions that are worse than the DivX / DeleD collision -- how about ".dat" or ".bin" for example? :-)

[Starnick]

I'm quite partial to the ".bob" format

[paul_nicholls]