OT: 3D File viewer

Aiken · #1 May 19th, 2004, 06:14 AM

David, try DirectX 9.0b SDK. It has to include Mesh Viewer (in the Extras or Tools folder) disigned to view .x file format. I know nothing about the quality of this but at least it's free.

Edit: oops forgot link

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[ May 19, 2004, 05:15: Message edited by: aiken ]

Aiken · #2 May 19th, 2004, 06:44 AM

Or better this: JTEdit http://www.jtgame.com/jtedit/jteditmain.html
===quote===
DirectX .x skinned mesh and frame-based formats, ASCII and binary.
Autodesk .3ds format plug-in, includes animation support.
Blitz3D format plug-in, full support.
JTGame stream and specialized ASCII and binary formats.
All supported formats are natively readable/writable via standard Open/Save As dialogs.
====quote====

It's free and smaller than DX SDK (5MB).

[ May 19, 2004, 05:46: Message edited by: aiken ]

David E. Gervais · #3 May 19th, 2004, 12:20 PM

Thanks for the links Aiken. I'm downloading them both as I type this. I'll check out the JTEdit first and if it is good enough I'll forgo installing the dx90bSDK until a much later date.

I wonder why the search engines I used never pointed me to the JTEdit page. I guess Teoma, google and altavista haven't taken a snapshot of the web in that neck of the woods.

Oh well, thanks again for the links.

Cheers!