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hello,
i got a skeleton model in 3ds and converted it with 3DWin. its all one
big smooth triangle mesh. i'd like to break it up so that the skeleton
wasn't frozen into one pose, such as making the forearm and upper
arm separate meshes so i could get arm movement.
i got an idea that i could add some visible rulers to the render so that
i could see where the different parts were, and then write a very simple
visual basic program to separate parts out based on a rough visual
judgement of coordinate limits of selected parts.
BUT... i don't want to make the job 10 times harder than what it is.
would i be able to accomplish this in moray, or some other low-dollar
3D app which could then be reintegrated into pov-ray?
thank you, miker
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> BUT... i don't want to make the job 10 times harder than what it is.
> would i be able to accomplish this in moray, or some other low-dollar
> 3D app which could then be reintegrated into pov-ray?
There's a thread above about getting Amapi 4.15 for free. It should do the
trick.
G.
--
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http://www.oyonale.com
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Graphic experiments
Pov-ray gallery
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thanks gilles,
i downloaded it and i'm playing with it right now. i imported the
3ds and it didn't take long to figure out how to rotate, translate,
and zoom so i could see what i'm doing, but its gonna take some
figuring to break the mesh apart... i used the lasso tool to select
the arm, and that worked. i tried to delete it (i figured if i could
delete it then i could delete everything but the other arm, and then
i could save it as a file and repeat the process for the other parts.),
but it deleted the entire skeleton.
the ungroup looked promising, but it wasn't activated... i imagine
it needs to see several objects welded together before ungroup
is an option.
is there an amapi support group? hmmm... maybe i need to
search "amapi" under newsgroup listings.
anyway, just wanted to say thanks. by the way, i owe you an
apology. i checked out your site and it got soaked from me
drooling all over it. ;-)
miker
"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapg inrafr> wrote in message
news:3bc1ec61$1@news.povray.org...
> > BUT... i don't want to make the job 10 times harder than what it is.
> > would i be able to accomplish this in moray, or some other low-dollar
> > 3D app which could then be reintegrated into pov-ray?
>
> There's a thread above about getting Amapi 4.15 for free. It should do the
> trick.
>
> G.
>
>
> --
>
> **********************
> http://www.oyonale.com
> **********************
> Graphic experiments
> Pov-ray gallery
>
>
>
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MR wrote:
> hello,
>
> i got a skeleton model in 3ds and converted it with 3DWin. its all one
> big smooth triangle mesh. i'd like to break it up so that the skeleton
> wasn't frozen into one pose, such as making the forearm and upper
> arm separate meshes so i could get arm movement.
I'm working on a model converter now. If it wouldn't be a problem, I'd like
to see that model so that I could make my converter useful for this sort of
thing.
Got a valid email?
--
Jon A. Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html
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hi jon,
no problem. my email is rob### [at] cranenavymil i'm not
exactly sure what you have in mind. 3DWin converted the model
into pov-ray with no problem. its just me trying to divide it down
into parts thats the kicker.
be forewarned that the 3ds is about 250KB.
thanks, miker
"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
news:3BC245D9.FD2D9FDB@geocities.com...
> MR wrote:
>
> > hello,
> >
> > i got a skeleton model in 3ds and converted it with 3DWin. its all one
> > big smooth triangle mesh. i'd like to break it up so that the skeleton
> > wasn't frozen into one pose, such as making the forearm and upper
> > arm separate meshes so i could get arm movement.
>
> I'm working on a model converter now. If it wouldn't be a problem, I'd
like
> to see that model so that I could make my converter useful for this sort
of
> thing.
>
> Got a valid email?
>
>
> --
> Jon A. Cruz
> http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html
>
>
>
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Steve Cox's UVMapper may come in handy as well
http://www.uvmapper.com/
-tgq
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thanks trevor,
evidently it does some things other than just its main purpose of
texture mapping for wavefront obj files, since i'm wanting to hack
on an imported 3ds mesh. i'll read further into his documentation.
miker
"Trevor Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Steve Cox's UVMapper may come in handy as well
> http://www.uvmapper.com/
>
>
> -tgq
>
>
>
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