Milkshape 3D Ascii vs. Textures

Frosty555 · 17th December 2007, 07:33 PM

Hi everyone,

http://www.inivis.com/forum/showthre...ight=milkshape - This thread talks a little about my concern.

I am writing some OpenGL software and I wanted to use AC3D as my tool to create and manipulate models for use in the program. I was looking at using Apron's fairly full featured Milkshape 3D Ascii Loader (http://www.morrowland.com/apron/tut_gl.php - about mid-page).

However, it looks like AC3D, while it exports the texture coordinates, does not actually have any way of including the texture file associated with each mesh.

So uhm... I guess my question is why not? And how hard would it be to make it do that? Milkshape's Ascii format *does* support texture files in the materials. Is there any way to get AC3D to include the path to the texture file in the export? Maybe an alternative plugin? Geez even a programatically inserted comment above each mesh indicating the path would be fine :P.

17th December 2007, 07:33 PM	#1
Frosty555 Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1	Milkshape 3D Ascii vs. Textures Hi everyone, http://www.inivis.com/forum/showthre...ight=milkshape - This thread talks a little about my concern. I am writing some OpenGL software and I wanted to use AC3D as my tool to create and manipulate models for use in the program. I was looking at using Apron's fairly full featured Milkshape 3D Ascii Loader (http://www.morrowland.com/apron/tut_gl.php - about mid-page). However, it looks like AC3D, while it exports the texture coordinates, does not actually have any way of including the texture file associated with each mesh. So uhm... I guess my question is why not? And how hard would it be to make it do that? Milkshape's Ascii format does support texture files in the materials. Is there any way to get AC3D to include the path to the texture file in the export? Maybe an alternative plugin? Geez even a programatically inserted comment above each mesh indicating the path would be fine :P.