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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.5
I am vary glad to see that SH3D going to release v4.5.
On this page try the model called Trees 9. When imported with v4.4 the model is OK and shows 9 trees. When imported with v4.5b the 9 models are all centered around the same X,Y coordinate.
Hans is right. When importing some grouped objects it become centered. I think already reported this issue. It happens both obj and 3ds format. Suppose if two objects have same pivot location like object_2 have pivot located at 0,0,0(x,y,z) and object_6, pivot located at 0,0,0(x,y,z) but both have different positions in view port/drawing then it imported to SH3D it become overlapped. See the example but it needs to be arranged in this way. In 3dsMax, for grouped objects when it is exported this bug does not affected while re importing and the groups become ungroupes automatically. In my opinion SH3D require some more script that locate the object based on pivot and this pivot arranged based on grid positions. Hope I explained it properly. If you don't get what I mean let me know. I am ready to explained it more.
This modern closet doesn't import in v4.5b, but it does import in v4.4, although without textures or texture groups. The OBJ model does import.......
Importing 3ds file is success but texture changed.(Obj shows no problem.) [In my experiences 3DSMax sometimes 3ds format does not working properly with smooth effect(not turbosmooth like add vertex), materials especially MentalRay and Vray, instace... So I prefer the mtl editable obj. If you really like to add supporting new format then why don't animation supported FBX. Did you ever try open .max file using 7zip?. ]
The trick is to save each TIFF file it uses as JPEG (or PNG) files keeping the original name even if its suffix is tif. Just need a little patience:
If jpg can import as tif then why HDRI can't import. Waiting for HDRI support as Modify 3d view -> Sky(Texture). I am very much interested to know current progress of yafaray code conversion.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.5
sree.arun.kr, I don't want to add support for a new format, I want to replace the existing library that loads 3DS files by one I programmed myself, so it's easier to maintain. I'll look at the pivot feature and hopefully will fix the new 3DS loader.
If jpg can import as tif then why HDRI can't import.
You misunderstood my trick: Sweet Home 3D doesn't support TIFF, it's just able to read any file containing some data at JPEG format, even if its extension is .tif or anything different from .jpg or .jpeg.
I am very much interested to know current progress of yafaray code conversion.
Nothing.
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It was tough but I think I was able to resolve remaining issues in 3DS support. At least, Sweet Home 3D should be able to import models as well as OBJ models converted with FBX Converter. Please, test it in the last Beta version.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.5
Emmanuel,
The tree model now imports correctly. The chair model also imports correctly.
The old house model cannot be imported correctly, despite using the trick you described: - use original 3ds file, convert images to jpg, delete original tif, then rename jpg to tif. - I also tried to change the 3ds file: using a text editor I changed all references of tif to jpg, then I changed images to jpg. No success.
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Thanks AruN and Hans for your tests
The old house model cannot be imported correctly, despite using the trick you described: - use original 3ds file, convert images to jpg, delete original tif, then rename jpg to tif. - I also tried to change the 3ds file: using a text editor I changed all references of tif to jpg, then I changed images to jpg. No success.
I wouldn't try to edit a 3DS file with a text editor, because it contains various data used to validate file content length. But no problem to view its content to find out the images files it references. Did you move the images files out of the tex subfolder?
The tarantula can't be imported because the 3DS files doesn't contain any 3D faces (only two lights).
The excavator data is probably incorrect since Autodesk's FBX Converter reports the same issues (like the two models of Model3D.biz I spoke about in the first message of this thread).
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.5
Emmanuel,
Regarding the old house model: I tried to change the 3DS file using first gedit, then notepad (Remember, I'm using Ubuntu). In both cases I think the problem is that all kinds of non-printing characters aren't recognized by the text editor, and are changed to incorrect values. The result is that the modified file is useless.
And no, I didn't change the directory of the tif/jpg files.
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Can you add a feature? free to rotate objects. It is very important. Very useful. Otherwise, we can only continue to export the model, and then import the model to rotate it.
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Sorry YGYL, if it happens, there are very very little chances that it will be in the next version.
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