Help Please
by Fred Thompson · in General Discussion · 11/02/2002 (12:41 pm) · 4 replies
I've been playing RW for about 2 months now and have made my fair share of maps in the process. Along this time I have picked up an intrest in helping the community and creating models/concepts for Realm Wars. I was wondering what program you all use to create the models and if there is a tutorial/explaination on the process of LOD because i'm kind of unsure on how that works. Any help would be appreciated.
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#2
actualy, if you want to help with the models for realmwars, you could probably just make the models and save them as 3DS files and just submit them like that, I'm sure pascal wouldnt mind exporting them for you... so dont worry about the exporter, if you have maya you should be able to start producing content for realmwars :)
11/02/2002 (3:13 pm)
it sure is, but there is no way to export the models to .dts format (torques model files) once your done making them, for that you will need to use max which has a max2dts exporter, or milkshape (I would recomend this because it is only $20), but at the moment I dont think anyone has written an exporter for mayaactualy, if you want to help with the models for realmwars, you could probably just make the models and save them as 3DS files and just submit them like that, I'm sure pascal wouldnt mind exporting them for you... so dont worry about the exporter, if you have maya you should be able to start producing content for realmwars :)
#3
11/02/2002 (6:06 pm)
Thanks for the help. The reason i have maya is because my dad is in the commercial arts industry and he has "connections". Anyway, i have some experience creating 3D models with a very basic program called StrataVision 3D. So not only would this be helpful to everyone but also to me because it's a learning experience. 
#4
As for which programs that you can use... well currently only Max R3 to R5 , Milkshape, and Lightwave 7.x have DTS exporters so whatever you build your model in needs to be transported into one of those three programs and then pushed out into DTS.
Logan
11/03/2002 (8:45 am)
AFAIK there should be a Realm Wars art submission FAQ coming soon guys.As for which programs that you can use... well currently only Max R3 to R5 , Milkshape, and Lightwave 7.x have DTS exporters so whatever you build your model in needs to be transported into one of those three programs and then pushed out into DTS.
Logan
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