I have been working on a cross platform game engine for many years now and it is pretty danged solid now. I am using it to build a Windows only 3D Model Display/Editor and the alpha version is shaping up. I don’t quite have the texturing ready (linear and sphere map algorithms are finished but display capability is not complete) … only 2 editing functions are exposed in the alpha release … However, it seems to work well on all PCs i have tried it on.
Could some of you download this app and give it a whirl … gimme some comments … see if it works?
Note : So far only Alias/Wavefront models are supported …
http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/e/leopardp/MagnaFacets.zip
It requires DirectInput 8 (DirectX8) and I have included the DLL … dunno if that will work for those of you that don’t have 8 or 9 installed but its worth a shot …
Thanks!
Paul
Instructions
- Unzip the archive to a folder of its own …
- Load a model with File->Open. I have included several in the Data/Models subdirectory of the installation folder.
- If the model is too large or too small to be seen you can zoom in/out as described in the controls or use Tools->3D Tools->Unitize to scale it to a unit size centered about the origin.
- Remove redundant vertices (weld them) through Tools->3D Tools->Weld
- File->Save* doesnt do anything at all
For some reason the tool tips dont show up for the toolbar so here is a brief summary for some of the buttons:
- Red Notebook - Opens preferences dialogs … some stuff works, some doesnt
- Rainbow - Set background color
- Axes - Toggles axes display
- Light - Toggles Lighting
- Cloud - Toggle fog (disabled)
- Wire box - Select wireframe mode
- Solid box - Select shaded mode
- Dotted Box - Select points mode
- Green button - Start real time clock (rotates model)
- Red button - Stop real time clock
- Warning button - Resets real time clock
- Clock - Toggles real time clock display
- Green Video Camera - Turns on realtime movie capture (takes a pic, bumps the clock, takes another, … etc… Stores frames in ./Capture folder
- Red Video Camera - Stop movie capture
- Camera - Takes a single snapshot
- Sine wave 1 - Toggles FPS display
- Sine wave 2 - Reset FPS monitor
- Grids - go figure
Controls:
- Right Mouse - Zoom in/out
- Left Mouse - Rotate model
- Left Shift/Left Control/Left Alt - Constrains rotations about a single axis
- P Key - Switches Left Mouse to PAN mode
[This message has been edited by pleopard (edited 07-24-2003).]