fun with .pso

Okay, all done and sent back.

Rats... something went funky with the compression. I can extract the lwo and lws files, but the textures give me an error. Can you send just the textures uncompressed (just attaching them)?

EDIT: Nevermind... I'm not thinking. I can convert them myself.

Perhaps I need a bit more coffee this evening...

EDIT: Good grief... my system was blocking unzip from opening the iff texture files. I've never run across that before. I had to open the properties panel of the zipped file and check unblock.

Virus protection is just getting silly these days... [xx(]

Jasper, the cube is on the way.

Thanks again Cambragol.

Thanks everyone, thats helped learn a few bits.

Exciting progress!

Yes, one of the things converter.exe does is to convert the LW style projection stuff to per-vertex texture co-ords - which as far as i can tell is the same thing as uvmapping.

The OpenGL viewer thing I wrote just takes the uv co-ords in the .pso and uses then to do the texture mapping.

If I understand this quote, then you are saying that the Flux engine itself uses "standard" UV mapping? It is just that the PS model team created the models in Lightwave 5.6 and so the converter was designed around the 5.6 texture mapping.

Would this mean that a new converter could be written to take UV mapped models directly? Bypassing the need to work around or "patch" the textures back in? My reason for asking is that Lightwave 5.6 is hard for people to get. And lightwave itself is very expensive. But there are many lightwave format compatable tools in existance.

If that's the case, I'll do you one better.

Jasper, do you understand the pso file format well enough to write a converter that can take a .3ds model with UV mapping and convert it? That would eliminate the need for Lightwave altogether and allow people to make models with vitually any 3D package, even free ones.

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