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Converting Oolite DAT models?

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How easy is it (or indeed is it possible) to take the .dat files that oolite uses for the ship models and covert them back into something else a 3D modelling tool can use? (i.e. reversing the python obj2dat process?)
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How easy is it (or indeed is it possible) to take the .dat files that oolite uses for the ship models and covert them back into something else a 3D modelling tool can use? (i.e. reversing the python obj2dat process?)
It's no more difficult than to use the python dat2obj process. The script for that is on the same download page as the obj2dat script. :wink:
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:oops: D'oh... didn't realise that somebody had already thought of that!

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
How easy is it (or indeed is it possible) to take the .dat files that oolite uses for the ship models and covert them back into something else a 3D modelling tool can use? (i.e. reversing the python obj2dat process?)
I recognise that line of questioning...

...what are you up to, eh? :wink:

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That would be telling, especially if my idea comes to naught...
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the python script DAT2OBJ works w/ a box modeller like Wings, but if you use owt else you might just get a bunch of unconnected vertices.
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Wings would be good enough to start - I could export from Wings to something else from there...
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