Maya/softimage?

[The Thibz]

 Hi, first, i love this engine. Currently i'm trying to create a class to render a landscape (very basic at the moment, if some people are interested i'll post it).

But what make me post is 3DSmax, a friend who will make some models for me asked if there's a way to export in .haddd with maya or softimage. Maybe you could give an exporter (but i doubt you would have the time) or a link to a method to create one?

thanks for this great engine, best graphics of all free engine  :D

[donald]

 Hello, they have md5 support, and if you have Doom3 game, there are plugins for maya and XSi, you just need to have the game installed. It works as a sort of dll for the game. It's easily found at doom3world.org , at forums, modelling section.


If you are not refering to animated characters, but scenery and statics, you may go for OBJ(native export from Maya, perfect export from XSI), it tends to be good enough. Unless you plan on porting some fx and particles. I dunno what kind of support they have for advanced stuff(also lightmaps, multitexturing, etc) in scenery export (plugins, etc) as been a while since last time I talked to them.

They'll know better ;)  

[donald]

 Here:

xsi

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=7836
http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic...p?p=79932#79932


maya
maybe this
http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=6882

oh, yup...for Maya7, here.. :
http://www.facinghell.com/


some sort of maya importer
http://home.earthlink.net/~seith/doom3.html


This all is mainly for md5.

OBJ export comes with maya, and xsi obj export is found I think at softimage site, I can't remember if it actually came included or downloaded from the softimage site...

However, all this is free.

Something like collada format would be interesting for the engine, if really all packages are getting full suport of it, as is scene and character full support, supposedly.

[The Thibz]

 thank you very much for the answer  :)