9 replies to this topic

[blanton]

Hi everybody, it's been months now that I have been trying to figure out how to load an external model from blender or something like that. I looked through hundreds of tutorials but every singe one of them is out dated. Please, can somebody tell me how to load external objects into the game? I really wanna start learning 3D but without knowing how to load external models, I can't start.

[Mayhem Games]

I recomend you use GMOgre. Ogre3D has a plugin for Blender (I believe it only supports 2.49a and below) which exports models to .mesh. Importing the mesh file requires only a line or two at minimum to import.

[blanton]

sigh =/

[Gamer3D]

Here's the file format description. You can write code to load that. Alternately, export to an OBJ file, then import that using one of the many scripts floating around. Or to MD2/MD3. Or to 3DS (Pretty sure there are some scripts for it online. I know I've made one, but not posted it).

Anyway, that's my take on your problem.

[Robert3DG+]

I recommend just creating your models ingame using a script and then referring to them from there.

[JYoshi10]

This is what I do.
First, create your model in whatever program you want, then export it to .obj format.
Second, open the with GMModelFix, and make sure everything is correct (like UVs and normals). Export to .d3d format.
Last, import to your game. (I'm assuming you know how to do that.)
I also found this dll. Might be interesting.

[nh_99]

To load my models I use Homunculus Model Converter (download here). Then, just put the model in the game folder and load it using this script:

modelname=d3d_model_create()
d3d_model_load(modelname, "modelname.d3d")

This works as long as the object isn't too big.

Edited by nh_99, 01 February 2012 - 12:42 AM.

[starfire_64]

Hi everybody, it's been months now that I have been trying to figure out how to load an external model from blender or something like that. I looked through hundreds of tutorials but every singe one of them is out dated. Please, can somebody tell me how to load external objects into the game? I really wanna start learning 3D but without knowing how to load external models, I can't start.

I watched this video on YouTube about loading models from blender, or any program that can export to .obj. It got me started with my3D Game.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Qa8qpumSuGA

Edited by starfire_64, 26 February 2012 - 05:20 PM.

[Buff-Robotix]

My personal favorite .obj to .d3d converter is anim8or and script written for it found on this page. It is the only converter that has never failed me.

[Gamer3D]

My personal favorite .obj to .d3d converter is anim8or and script written for it found on this page. It is the only converter that has never failed me.

Anim8or is old (Last update was in 2006), and rather outdated. Perhaps a better solution is to load obj files using a GM script. If you find a good description of the file format (and it is a simple enough one) it won't be hard to make a script to load it (I've made scripts to load obj and 3ds files, and OmicronGamer made some to load MD2 and MD3 files).