File: Coz-dr8.tgz Author: Alain Gautherot, gauthe_a@epita.fr Release: March 16th 1997 Compatibility: DR8.2 Location: /pub/contrib/gfx Notes: Why that stupid name? --------------------- Because. 8o) What's that? ------------ This is an early preview of a 3d objects viewer Cool, what 3d objects? ---------------------- 3d2, 3ds, dxf, obj, nff, off, gr (dirty home made format) How does it work? ----------------- Guess what? Run the application and drop 3d files on it. That simple! Use the keypad to change view: 4 & 6: rotate Y (or V) 2 & 8: rotate X (or U) 1 & 7: rotate Z (or N) 3 & 9: Zoom in/out Installation ------------ Well, this is a standard .tar.gz file. You can: - use Xplode browser add-ons (see on ftp.be.com) - use a terminal: type gunzip Coz-dr8.tar.gz tar xpvf Coz-dr8 Coz-dr8.tar You get a Coz-dr8 directory with a binary called Coz-dr8 and a few object files. If you've already downloaded 3dMo-dr8, you may recognize the head2 and triso objects. The objects with the 3dMo-dr8 application can be viewed with Coz-dr8 (this is the famous "gr" format) Enjoy! More objects ------------ You want more objects? Well, sites providing such a stuff are numerous on the Internet. Anyway, here are some interesting sites for free models: http://www.3dsite.com/ http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/objects.html http://156.46.199.2:80/3dcafe/meshes.htm http://cedar.cic.net/~rtilmann/mm/obcatdx.htm http://members.aol.com/mjx1936140/3dpage/3dpage.html http://www.3dlinks.com/ There are, of course, a lot of other sites. If you know *free* and *good* ones not stated in the previous list, just email me. From some of theses sites, you may reach the Star Wars modeling alliance the two 3ds objects were taken from. What's next ? ------------- Well, as you'll probably can see, there's still a lot of work. You can actually only look at the dots objects. Once the clipper is over, it will be much better... - the parsers are not fast enough (just try a 1Mb dxf or obj file!!!) I know how I can speed it up, but I'm a bit lazy... &( - may be support some other formats (if you have any idea...) - include objects shading (Bouknight, Gouraud, Phong), then mapping Bugs ---- First, it can't be. Bugs are always due to the BeOS bugs ;) However, if it happened that a bug continuously occur with a given file, the you can help me: drop me a mail with the input file location Second, some file format parsers look like... Hem... mess. That's it. Mess. Thus, some files are parsed, but no object is given in output (it happened for 1 dxf file): this is due to the lack of information on that format (a lot of fields are skipped) Help me ------- This application is helloware: if you enjoy it (well, it can't be that much for the moment), send me a hello. If you're up in 3d territory, don't hesitate to contact me, so that we can exchange some ideas on 3D & BeOS. I need friends... ;) From the same author -------------------- * 3dMo-dr8: a 3d demo. I think it's worth downloading it... Please do!!! 8) * Viou-dr8: a bitmap processing application used for a project. Includes a DSP/PowerPC comparison. Interesting. -- Alain GAUTHEROT Email: alain@cs.stevens-tech.edu, gauthe_a@epita.fr http: http://www.epita.fr/~gauthe_a It doesn't matter how long the sword is if the man doesn't know about virtue