Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Andrew Murray" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Vector Characters akin to Asteroids Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:28:21 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: host217-43-186-98.range217-43.btcentralplus.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Hi Jon, I don't have a CAD package or anything... will 3ds max be able to output comma delimited files? Thanks, Andy M. "Jon Prestidge" wrote in message news:c75f2q$h5l1@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > Have you got any sort of CAD package you could use. With most CAD packages > you can draw something in vectors, obviously, but then there is usually an > option to write-out the co-ordinates in a generic comma delimited file > (instead of DXF or whatever) which you past into your source code. It > might save you some work... > > ... was that what you ment or did you mean you wanted some sort of algorithm > to draw them automaticallly? > > As for displaying them -- I'd use the 2D line function (I think it's called > gsline or something like that) it worked quite well for me. > > Also I have some routines I wrote that draw text using vectors using that > line drawing function... you can have those if you like. > > Jon > >