posted 05-12-2001 02:19 PM               

PROGRAMS NEEDED

-TRViewer 0.80
-STRPix3
-Rhinoceros
-Crossroads Converter (Get it)

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Using TRViewer, open the TR file containing the object you wish to retrieve.
2.) Find the object and then right-mouse click on the object's name and select "Export to 3DS" and save it sumwhere.
3.) Load Rhinoceros and open the file you saved it under.
4.) You're going to need to resize the object because @ the moment it is extremely large ( too big to be imported). To do this, click the "Transform" menu, click the "Scale" sub-menu, and then click "Scale 3-D". Click on point above the object and then click again below the object in the "Perspective" screen. Resize the object. *You may need to do a little trial and error here, unless you can find sum way to scale it.*
5.) Save the file as a .3DS file (don't try to save it as .DXF yet, it'll mess things up).
6.) Load the Crossroads Coverter, and open the .3DS file you saved the resized object to.
7.) Save that file as AutoCAD (.DXF).
8.) Load STRPix3 and open the .WAD file you want to import the object mesh into.
9.) Scroll through the meshes until you find a single intact mesh under one of the ANIMATION slots in the .WAD file.
10.) Click "Import Dxf" under the file menu and then select the converted .DXF file.
11.) Finally, save the .WAD file.

PROBLEMS

-The process is very time consuming.
-The objects are not solid (you can walk through them in the game).
-The textures do not show up.

That's it!! To see a picture of the results, click here.

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Rock on.

posted 05-12-2001 02:26 PM               

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Take the blue pill, and you wake up in your bed, and believe what ever you want to believe.

posted 05-14-2001 09:29 AM               

You can save DXF from Rhino selecting "3dface" method and "Autocad ver 13" option in the DXF export dialog.

>-The objects are not solid (you can walk through them in the game).

If you replace a original solid object for your new Object then it wil be solid too.

Or you can use TRLE to edit the object colision info.

T.P.

posted 05-14-2001 05:56 PM            

I have had much better luck with rhino lately. the problems I was having before where due to my own confusion. when Turbo describes saving the object as a layer name, I was thinking of the entire model as a single object. any model is actually made up of several or many objects. (each one must have this layer name). the associated texture is less important, as long as you assign one to the layer. (you can always retexture latter).

other things to note:
the vertices limitation of aprox 255. this refers to the number of vert's when the mod is in strpix.
when you are working in rhino as a *.3dm, you will have a higher number of vertices.
it is when you save back to dxf in the manner Turbo describes that your vertices will come back down.

if you have any more confusion I will be happy to help.
C ya -rob

posted 05-15-2001 08:42 AM            

also thank you so much for your kind comments!
-rob