Preventing "Triangles" when making models
Preventing "Triangles" when making models
So i have that problem that haunts me for a quite a while,
when i am making models in Wings3D and exporting it to a 3ds one and loading up Upspring and loading that Model,
it creates "Triangles" my original Model in Wings format doesn't got any Triangles added to it,
same thing happens on 3dobuilder as well
Pic: http://img5.imagebanana.com/view/qvk3e2 ... angles.JPG
Left: Wings 3D
Right: UpSpring loading up TDED25.3ds
when i am making models in Wings3D and exporting it to a 3ds one and loading up Upspring and loading that Model,
it creates "Triangles" my original Model in Wings format doesn't got any Triangles added to it,
same thing happens on 3dobuilder as well
Pic: http://img5.imagebanana.com/view/qvk3e2 ... angles.JPG
Left: Wings 3D
Right: UpSpring loading up TDED25.3ds
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
That`s because 3D models in Spring, TA3D and TA can be constructed only from polygons with 3 sides (triangles). You can convert quad polygons to triangles in Wings3D before export, but anyway, your 3D model can be constructed only from triangles.
Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
this makes no sense i have seen other 3do models that got no Triangles how come?Balthazar wrote:That`s because 3D models in Spring, TA3D and TA can be constructed only from polygons with 3 sides (triangles). You can convert quad polygons to triangles in Wings3D before export, but anyway, your 3D model can be constructed only from triangles.
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
generic polygons are not easy to handle properly, and they are always tesselated before being rendered. Video harware only understand triangles. Also you have geometrical inconsistencies with more than 3 points in space since because of rounding errors you'll define volumes instead of real polygons, so there is an ambiguity problem.
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
Yes but..
http://img5.imagebanana.com/view/lt095i ... iangle.JPG
This is an custom Model from Command&Conquer modification for Original Total Annihilation
and it doesn't got any triangles as you can see from the Picture
how do i achieve this?
http://img5.imagebanana.com/view/lt095i ... iangle.JPG
This is an custom Model from Command&Conquer modification for Original Total Annihilation
and it doesn't got any triangles as you can see from the Picture
how do i achieve this?
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
Probably importing the data from a file format that supports generic polygons in a software that supports some kind of generic polygons from that specific file format ...
Why do you really need generic polygons ? (It's probably possible to do it with triangles even if it's less convenient)
Why do you really need generic polygons ? (It's probably possible to do it with triangles even if it's less convenient)
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
Because at the moment i suck at UV Mapping and so i need to stick to 3do because i can make the unit quickly textured with acceptable result,
and the Triangles makes it look more uglier and it causes "bad lightning" like one of the triangles is brighter then the others one etcetera..
and the Triangles makes it look more uglier and it causes "bad lightning" like one of the triangles is brighter then the others one etcetera..
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
if you're looking for a flat lighting model, 3DMEditor can do it, just select an object and uncheck the gouraud option, if needed you can also separate triangles that share some vertices in order to avoid lighting errors thus making triangles of a same polygon appear all the same.
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
Hmm.. it seems 3ds export creates triangles on it.. but not OBJ ,
but because OBJ can have only a single objects and not several.. it is a pain in the ass to do that,
oh well maybe i need to get used with it..
but because OBJ can have only a single objects and not several.. it is a pain in the ass to do that,
oh well maybe i need to get used with it..
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Re: Preventing "Triangles" when making models
Yeah, try to get used to it, since most of the 3D editors operate with triangles.
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