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djblackdragon
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 Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject: Loading a .dmf into DarkBasic |
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| I was wondering how to load DeleD's native .dmf file into DB. Any help is much appreciated. |
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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If you want to use .dmf, you'll have to write your own parser in DB. If that's not an option, you can always export to X and use those X files in DB instead. But, .dmf holds more information than X so writing your own parser is almost always worth your while.  |
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djblackdragon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried exporting to a .x but when I loaded into my collision code, it said could not load file at line... |
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Chris
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| The trouble with the .x file could be in the materials, make sure there are no spaces in the texture names, DB doesn't like this. |
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djblackdragon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you so much!! It ended up being the materials. It was the floor texture that it didn't like. Thank you again. |
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Chris
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Thats ok, had the same problem myself a few months ago. Took me hours of testing before I realised what it was. |
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Jeroen
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Space should be banned! 
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djblackdragon
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, now that that question is out of the way, I have one more. Is there any way to make an object look like glass? |
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djblackdragon
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Any body have any ideas how to do the above? |
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Chris
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| The way me and Khris did it was to do all glass as a seperate object, then load both objects and trun on alpha blending for the glass object. |
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djblackdragon
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, i'll just code it in instead. Now for my next question: How would you export lightmaps in .x, or would I stil have to make a parser to load the .dmf into DB? |
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| djblackdragon wrote: |
| Ok, i'll just code it in instead. Now for my next question: How would you export lightmaps in .x, or would I stil have to make a parser to load the .dmf into DB? |
Lightmaps require multiple sets of UV coordinates per polygon which is something X does not support. DMF does, so writing your own parser would be worth your while. It also shouldn't be very hard because of its simplicity + you've got a detailed description in the Help file and all the Help you need on this forum.  |
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djblackdragon
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, thats what I thought. I'll get to work. |
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