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From: Paso <giulio@mbox.ulisse.it>
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Subject: Re: Managing a complex 3D world
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:16:18 +0200
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laura smith wrote:

> 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

Laura Smith?

I'm joking. Let's make it serious.
I already have got some experience with Yaroze 3D models data, RSD and
TMD format, camera view, and so on. 
Some days ago a friend of mine has used Autocad 13 to make a simple 3D
world to let me test some stuff on a "big" 3D background...
The dxf2rsd hangs every time I try to covert the dxf!
It seems that this tool is able to covert a simple 3D model but is not
able to covert a 3D background (like a little town).
Now if you tell me that the procedure to implement a 3D background is
similar to implement a simple 3D model (I mean DXF->RSD->TMD) How can I
manage this tool problem? (If it's a tool problem...)

Ciao!,
Paso