Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Anthony Durity Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: Cool idea.... 3DS Max plugins... Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 13:23:03 +0100 Organization: Matrix Games Lines: 48 Message-ID: <33BB99A7.FFC5FEE5@cyberia.ie> References: <33AAB627.3007@cyberia.ie> <33AC6900.6791@reptile.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-159.dublin.iol.ie Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) To: rune.solberg@reptile.no X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Rune Solberg wrote: > > Matrix Games wrote: > > > > Here's a good idea, why doesn't some enterprising chap write a plugin > > for 3DS MAX that exports direct to TMD instead of all this dozy .dxf > > faffing around! > > > > ps, we want a % of all the royalties for every plugin sold. > > > > The lads at Matrix. > > Hey! That's a good idea! > > Wait a second... oh! Animetix already did that! :) Check out > www.animetix.com or something (there is a link from the SCEA site) > > I emailed them weeks (months?) ago for a beta, and they said they'd get > back to me, but they never did... So much for customer support. :( > > Lars Hi Again, We got details from Animetix! The product is called GAMUT-PSm. A company in Gilford, England called Freehand is acting as their distributor. They can be contacted on 01483 894 000. The retail price is £795 sterling ex. vat. The GAMUT-PSm blurb says that the product - automatically converts texture bitmaps to TIM format. - there is a VRAM manager plugin to specify output resolution, pixel depth, image and CLUT location in Playstation VRAM for each bitmap. - the information can be saved and reused - use of TIM files as textures in MAX - face and object level setting of transparency and Gouraud-shading in MAX - convert triangles to quads (which is great we think) - exports RSD, TMD, TIM and ASCII that includes ANIMATION (very important, I was going to have to write this) - documentation and interface library (though one expects this for £795, hmmmm) So that's about it. I reckon we're going to get it. I'll let you know how we get on. Ciao, Anthony.