Importing TGD's into MAX

[Aragon Speed]

A few days ago, while I was looking for something else, I found a small plug-in for 3DS Max on a forum that allowed you to import TG2 files. I thought I would come back and get it later. Can I find it again? No...

If anybody knows where I can get this plug-in, could they post a link please.

[Oshyan]

Here's a forum thread with discussion and a link: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=172.msg1253#msg1253

- Oshyan

[Aragon Speed]

Thx. I'll go there now.

[DeathTwister]

OMG your kidding right?, OMG I'm going there as well, Wow if they could do that, wow that would be more then interesting I think.

DT

[1k0la]

May be I just don't understand at all how the script from emecstudios works in 3ds max But Can someone make a mini tutorial on how it works?
I Saw someone who said this script works, so it's possible!

When I import my .chan file in Terragen 2 no animation is playing, my camera rest in same place from Frame 0 to 100 or either... May be it's juste a little thing to do or click...

I'm desperate because it's a wonderfull news to animate camera in Terragen2 before Final version coming

I used Terragen 2 to build landscape for a Short movie, but I've had to play a bit in compositing to fake 3D environnement :-S But it looks pretty good, good enough to be select in festivals


apologize for my bad english

Thanks

[gneale]

You need to use a reference object in max to offset the camera animation data from.  The script basically uses this object as a reference point to 'measure' where it is in the scene at that specific frame, and outputs this info in the *.chan file you create on export.

-G

[1k0la]

Thank you gneale

[xNickx]

But how export terrain to 3ds MAX? I can export only sunlight...

[gneale]

The way we went about it was to export a very wide, top-down shot as a .lwo file.  We'd then export that out of Lightwave as a .obj object and import it into either maya or max (depending on the artist).  From there you have a relatively good approximation of the mesh to animate your camera from.  Then we'd just shoot the camera's channel data back into T2 and render it out from there.  Worked pretty good. 

-Geoff

[MooseDog]

The way we went about it was to export a very wide, top-down shot as a .lwo file. 

nice one!