3D tools for designing new units?

[GottaLove88s]

Guys,

When you're creating new units (for example, Merr's Hetzer is seriously cool) what software do you use?
Are there any programs/apps that can "read in" a current BA unit 3d model/skin and let us modify and save it?

Thanks for any advice!
GL88

[pipfromslitherine]

There are a few stickies at the top of the forum here. We use MAX, and there is an exporter script in the 3D pack you can grab from the wiki/STUB docs. There is also an exporter for Blender that works. I also recall that someone (I want to say Rich?) came up with an exporter for gMAX which he used. I'd need to find the thread.

The pack includes a number of sample units to let you see how it all hangs together. We don't have the ability to import into any packages from the s4f files - it's actually somewhat trickier than exporting because of the way we store the data.

Cheers

Pip

[enric]

You're only talking about PC software, right?

[pipfromslitherine]

I think so, yes. Although there could well be a Blender version for Mac?

[GottaLove88s]

Yup, was just looking around... There's a Blender for Mac and Linux... http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender... For freeware, this looks pretty darned amazing!

So you said that there's a 3d pack somewhere that we can drop some units back into Blender and experiment?

[enric]

GL the link you posted did not work.

[pipfromslitherine]

Blender Exporter: viewtopic.php?f=104&t=21328

3D unit details: http://www.slitherinebravo.net/GameWiki ... _3d_models (though some of the info is for MAX).

Cheers

Pip

[pipfromslitherine]

GL the link you posted did not work.

Got truncated:

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Cheers

Pip