From: Paul Furber <paul AT sprintlink DOT co DOT za>
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Subject: Re: Allegro 3D examples needed DESPERATLEY.
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 21:40:00 +0200
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> Erroll Leggo writes:
> >I was wondering if there is any program to convert wireframe models
> >from any of the popular formats to allegro?
> 
> Allegro doesn't really have a model format as such. The 3D functions are
> a lot lower-level than that: Allegro will draw your polygons, and it
> will do various geometric transformations for you, but it's up to you to
> store the model however you like...


Probably the best example I've found is 3DSRDR which is a small C
program to read in the .3DS format from 3D Studio. It's quick and it
doesn't take long to convert it to output a header file which contains
an object list from the model. Look in

http://www.cdrom.com/pub/demos/incoming/code/

Anyone want to do collaborative work on a higher-level 3D engine with
keyframing, cameras, lighting, real-time rendering and some model work?
It would use Shawn's excellent base of code in Allegro but provide
high-level funtionality like RenderScene() or something ;-)
Mail me if you're interested.


Paul.