Slitherine

Pip,

I've researched on how to make an exporter for MS3D ...

Tutorial ... http://www.xbdev.net/3dformats/milkshape/index.php
Tools Needed (free) ... http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/

Note : When the tutorial was written the tool was Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (link in tut) which is replaced with The Visual Studio® 2010 Express (link shown above).

Now, I could (being programming challenged) make an attempt to write an exporter to s3f ... but I could probably only export a static object (for now).
To do this, I would need an object s3f example ... ie, the CRATES would be perfect, it's only a box right?

I don't know where you are at when making exporters but I could (at least) start the project ... and with your help make it happen!

I'd prefer that the professionals at Slitherine (Pip, did I every mention that you guys are awesome ) make an exporter ... because we can all be 6 feet under by the time I make an exporter .

Anyway ... thoughts? comments?

Thanks,
Rob

Can MS handle the animations in some way? And IIRC MS wasn't free? I know it used to be and I went to take a look thinking it would be ideal. But I don't want to be seen as endorsing a pay-for tool - although we're happy to support them - if that makes sense.

I'll take a look at the link though. The S3F format is specifically designed to hopefully not care about internal animation formats, it just gets final transforms and positions.

I'm also still looking at perhaps just making something to convert or even natively load .X files as then we can leverage other people's exporters and importers to do the heavy lifting

Cheers

Pip