Converting Oolite DAT models?
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Converting Oolite DAT models?
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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Re: Converting Oolite DAT models?
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.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?)
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D'oh... didn't realise that somebody had already thought of that!
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Re: Converting Oolite DAT models?
I recognise that line of questioning...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?)
...what are you up to, eh?
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That would be telling, especially if my idea comes to naught...
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Re: Converting Oolite DAT models?
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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Re: Converting Oolite DAT models?
Wings would be good enough to start - I could export from Wings to something else from there...
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