Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: "Dwight Joslin" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_studio Subject: Re: Getting texture maps onto the Yaroze Date: 4 Aug 1997 01:54:53 GMT Organization: Spectrum GameWorks Lines: 45 Message-ID: <01bca07a$cbdc54c0$051abacc@prolog.prolog.net> References: <33DFBC50.156@sprintmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: du05.scr.ptd.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 You can save a 3ds file as a DXF file and then use DXF2RSD to convert it. The image will appear on the Yaroze but only a white image appears. If anyone can tell me why I can't get color rsd's, please do so. It's a good chunk of change for a program that Sony distributed a "special deal" with it's Yaroze sign-up package. If I had known that there were no tools available to convert 3d info, I wouldn't have bought it. I do like 3d Studio though. And I truly enjoy the Net Yaroze program but as I understand it, the Japanese programmers got Lightwave 3D. Oh well.... Jack Bowman wrote in article <33DFBC50.156@sprintmail.com>... > This is a re-post of my previous message which someone chose to delete > instead of answering. If deleted again, I will just email it to > everyone I can find. > > ------------------------------ > > I have several models made in 3D Studio and saved as .3ds files, > complete with texture map data and keyframe data, including 96 animation > positions on 30 or so sub-objects. Should look great on the Yaroze. > > But it seems there is no way short of buying the $30k Developer's > package for the Playstation that I am going to get the .3ds data to the > Yaroze. > > I have not been able to find ANY program for less than several thousand > dollars that will read my .3ds files and create Yaroze-compatible (i.e, > .rsd or .tmd) files and also retain the texture map data, and it looks > as though I will have to wrench the keyframe data out of the .3ds files > some other way anyway! > > So far no one at Sony has been of any help, and the one program I could > find out about (SoftImage) that will interface neatly with a Playstation > requires a plugin that is sold only if you have the $30K Playstation > license. > > I am beginning to feel that Sony is sadly lacking in support for > purchasers of the Net Yaroze, and I don't know how they expect to build > a grass roots Playstation software community with that attitude. > > Perhaps the name should should be changed from "Let's Do It!" to "Do it > Yourself!" or maybe "Go away kid, you bother me!". > > Well, a new Nintendo should be available soon.... >