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From: laura smith <laura_smith@interactive.sony.com>
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Subject: Re: Managing a complex 3D world
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:05:38 +0100
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Paso wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> If I want to put in the frame buffer a complex 3D world, as a town with
> some building, how can I manage the 3D world maked with a program like
> 3D studio?
> 
> Cheers,
> Paso



In 3D Studio and other packages, create and output
3d polygon models, in rsd or dxf format. (3ds outputs in dxf).
If dxf, convert to rsd using the dxf2rsd tool.
To use on Yaroze, you must convert the rsd files to tmd
using rsdlink; the tmds created, and any TIM textures that they
use, must be loaded into memory.

When 3d models are in the Yaroze memory as TMDs, you can display
them using GsDOBJ2 structures; these allow the polygon models
to be moved and rotated in the world.
The '3d' demo should give some clues as to how this works.

Hope this is useful

Lewis