[Radiance-general] 3DS to RAD

[stefke b]

With programs like 3DWin by Thomas Baier (PC-only), file conversion should 
not really be a problem.

What you say about polygonising everything is true. Only when using file 
formats that support other kinds of geometry (NURBS, Bezier-patches, 
CSG-constructs) then you'll be able to have the most economic conversion. 
There is no "general 3D-file format" at the moment, so unless you can write 
a plug-in for your software directly, you'll have to live with these 
limitations...

If we could get the software-firms aware of the importance of Radiance, then 
they could write export-plugins with a much better support of the 
radiance-primitives.

Radiance is however capable of rendering files with a lot of polygons. It is 
not the fastest way, but it'll get you there.

I use the ConRAD-program from Ole Lemming and most models come through. It 
is not unlikely that these models generate octrees of more then 100MB, which 
takes time... but the results are OK.

--- stefkeB ---

>From: "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe@gmx.net>
>Reply-To: radiance-general@pab-opto.de
>To: radiance-general@pab-opto.de
>Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] 3DS to RAD
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:36:49 +0200
>
>Hi!
>
>Ole Lemming wrote:
>
> > What about the 3ds->ConRad->Rad conversion ? ;-)
>
>The problem with 3ds is that it will triangulate
>EVERYTHING - and only the windows-version of formZ
>has an 3ds-export.
>
>CU, Lars.

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