help with .3ds

[Flowen]

Hi, I haven't really posted here in a while. I couldn't find out anywhere else, I have about ten .3ds files of different sonic characters with axis (or move) points! All of which I can not find a way to find a program to manipulate them with. Can anyone help me out?

 

[Ritz]

If you're trying to handle .3ds files, you're going to need Autodesk 3ds Max, which isn't exactly free. Alternatively, you can try to convert the file to a friendlier format with a program like Okino Polytrans. While that isn't free either, you can download a trial somewhere. The trial version only lets you convert, like, 5 polygons, though. And it really doesn't work very well. At all.

Also, would Vector happen to be among those models, pray tell?

 

[Blitzzo]

If you're thinking about using them in a 3D engine, then try DirectX models (.x). They load in many 3D engines such as DarkBASIC Pro. Don't bother using .3ds in a game. You should use the most native and compatible model format for your engine as possible. I don't know a whole lot about other 3D engines, but .3ds loads incredibly slow in DarkBASIC.

I think there used to be a good free converter called Crossroads, but it somehow vanished. When I make models, I make them in Wings 3D and then import and convert them to .x using the modeling program Blender. I know Wings 3D can import .3ds, and maybe Blender too, but I don't remember.

 

[Ritz]

I use Milkshape for all my converting needs. It isn't free either, but it works quite well.

Tell you what; mail me the models, and I'll try converting them for you.

 

[Flowen]

K, but I'll need your e-mail address. And there isn't a Vector.

 

[Ritz]

Oy, there's never a Vector.

Also, click the 'email' button under my post.

 

[Eidolon]

There is a torrent of colored and converted Sonic Heroes models on Soniconthe.net if you want to try those.

 

[Monsteriestyn]

Sonic Heroes 3D Model.torrent:

3D Models of Sonic Heroes Characters.

But just playable characters.

Amy, Big, Charmy, Cheese, Cream, Espio, Omega, Rouge, Shadow, Sonic and Tails

*.3DS

Enjoy it ! ^^ ;)

Just curious, but is there a reason as to why no Vector models exist?

 

[Ritz]

Just curious, but is there a reason as to why no Vector models exist?

Yeah, that was me using the public GHZ account.

 

[Monsteriestyn]

But that sucks. How will we be able to get that model? That thing is even more rare than a jar of peanuts in a pickle barrel.

 

[Ritz]

We probably won't. There's got to be a reason no one's done it yet. I've asked around the SWS2B/Sonic Cult fora (Most likely where the models were initially ripped), and nobody over there seems to know, either. Not that I've gotten many answers.

I'd post a topic on the SWS2B boards, but it seems a bit too early to be asking most likely idiotic questions.

 

[Shadow Hog]

We probably won't. There's got to be a reason no one's done it yet. I've asked around the SWS2B/Sonic Cult fora (Most likely where the models were initially ripped), and nobody over there seems to know, either. Not that I've gotten many answers.

I'd post a topic on the SWS2B boards, but it seems a bit too early to be asking most likely idiotic questions.

Contradiction much?

 

[Ritz]

No. When I said "SWS2B/Sonic Cult fora", I meant the community in general. Mainly, the IRC channel. But most everything I say goes ignored in there, so I'd be more likely to get an answer on the message board.