What tools are officially recommended to build the interiors in T3D?

#1 Anything that can export to .dae should be fine, your preference.

#2 Thanks. So... does it mean there could be only one format .dae in T3D and it can be totally used instead of .dif and .dts files?

#3 Interiors could be Collada or DTS - whatever you are more familiar with. Recommend not using DIF's though.

#4 I see. Only one format will make things easier. Thanks!

#5 Technicly the DAE gets converted at runtime into a DTS by the game engine, this file then remains until a change is detected in the DAE file.

#6 Thanks for the reply. How about the animation sequences for the .dts files? Does the .dae format store the sequences as well?

#7 sorry to jump in on your thread, better then opening a new one.

so if any tool is the same, when i try and export an object the walls become transparent as i go around it. was going to switch to quark since other posts have said that you can do it only with that or constructor.

Thanks

#8 @Justin
Check your normals, it sounds like the "faces" of your polys are pointing the wrong way. Do a search through the docs of whatever modeling software you're using if you don't know how to.

Quark/Constructor are for old DIF/BSP style formats, DTS = mesh models.

#9 Thanks ive tried it and it works in the sense that from the outside the faces are visible . But when i enter again the same problem since the normals are pointing out. I want the user to walk from outside into an interior.

Thanks again for your reply

#10 dont change the direction of all the faces, only the faces that dont show

#11 @Justin .. you need to create outside AND inside walls (box inside a box).
Unless you mark the walls as two sided, but then it will be the same
texture inside and out, and polysoup will only work on one side.