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Title: file formats imports
Post by: VDP on October 19, 2009, 11:18:03 AM
Hey everyone, this is my first post so take it easy!  My 3d rendering experience is mainly architectural, and when I stumbled across Terragen 2 I was literally blown away! 

My problem is this: I have a very large area in dwg, skp and even 3ds if it helps - but only in separate pieces - as currently, the file becomes too large in autocad or sketchup to stitch together.  Is there a way I can import .dwg files or similar (or convert them to something compatible) into Terragen 2?   My next avenue maybe dwg -> xml? 

thanks,

VDP
Title: Re: file formats imports
Post by: Ogre on October 19, 2009, 11:25:32 AM
Take a look here

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=4247.msg44466#msg44466
Title: Re: file formats imports
Post by: VDP on October 19, 2009, 11:31:45 PM
Thank you! I'll give that a go.
Title: Re: file formats imports
Post by: rcallicotte on October 20, 2009, 02:56:15 PM
Some users here are incredibly helpful and most are just plain nice.  Don't worry.  We all have something we don't know.


Quote from: VDP on October 19, 2009, 11:18:03 AM
Hey everyone, this is my first post so take it easy!  My 3d rendering experience is mainly architectural, and when I stumbled across Terragen 2 I was literally blown away! 

My problem is this: I have a very large area in dwg, skp and even 3ds if it helps - but only in separate pieces - as currently, the file becomes too large in autocad or sketchup to stitch together.  Is there a way I can import .dwg files or similar (or convert them to something compatible) into Terragen 2?   My next avenue maybe dwg -> xml? 

thanks,

VDP
Title: Re: file formats imports
Post by: Oshyan on October 20, 2009, 11:31:05 PM
TG2 can import OBJ and LWO formats right now, so if you can get your model(s) into that format, they should come in just fine. To include texturing info you'd need to use OBJ with a properly formatted MTL file.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: file formats imports
Post by: N810 on October 21, 2009, 09:22:10 AM
At one time I had a tool to inport/export obj files for autocad...
I forget if it was lsp or arx but I do rember it was simple and free,
If only I could find it...  :P

I think it was called something like OBJOUT ???