[Radiance-general] Radiance plug-in for 3DS

[Iain Macdonald]

Jeffrey,

I also get the same behaviour as John reports.  In my experience going 
from dxf -> 3ds -> mgf -> rad (works better than dxf -> rad directly) 
missing surfaces are due to errors in the original cad model or small 
errors in curved surfaces being triangulated.  I would recommend 
checking the original model.

Apart from that could there be any 3ds primitives that are not 
translated by 3ds2mgf?

Iain

John Mardaljevic wrote:

>> I then export out a nice
>> 3DS file from 3D Studio, and run the 3DS2MGF -> MGF2RAD style of
>> conversion, and it gets most of the way through the conversion but  then
>> hits a 'Unexpected EOF'. If I then render the RAD file things are
>> missing, for it didn't finish the conversion. It happens with this
>> script as well.
>
>
> Jeffrey,
>
> In my experience, the 'Unexpected EOF' report occurs with every  
> successful execution of 3ds2mgf.  In which case, the report may have  
> nothing to do with the missing geometry.
>
> Sorry I can't be of more help, but I thought it worth pointing out  
> that this seems to be normal behaviour for 3ds2mgf.
>
> -John
>
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