Infiwinians looks awsome, but I think it would be better if there was a bit of fog so you can tell the ones in front from the ones in back better. Maybe I should go play with blender...

Wow, thanks for your detailed reply. I know about Multiwinia and I can't wait to play it, but it didn't occur to me that it would be using the exact same model format (or similar) as Darwinia. This gives me even more reason to work on both the exporter and the importer. The first programming languag...

Is anyone still interested in Blender the import script? I have a bit of time that I can use to fix it if it is wanted/needed.

I had the import script finished a while ago, but I forgot to post it on this thread. I have uploaded the file here. It is still quite buggy, but most of the shapes import correctly. Color support is broken, and if anyone has ideas, please let me know.

I have fixed those problems for the most part, and posted the new version in the other post (see the end of page 7 of this thread). But I still have a few problems with the triangles to work out. For an example of this, import incubator.shp. I also cannot figure out how to set colors for the vertice...

I have been playing around with it for a while, and I noticed that the vectors are not being converted to Blender's orientation. I also figured out that some of the shape files use triangle strips instead of lists, and I am working on a way to fix that now. Lowell: I wish I could clone myself too. :)

Ok, I have fixed a lot of the problems, and it loads a few shapes ok (armour), and all the parents are created correctly. TODO: Fix a couple of triangle problems (look at incubator.shp) Add color support. (There is code that is supposed to work in shp_fragment.create, but it crashes Blender) Test th...

I have decided to work on a SHP importer for Blender. I am pretty fluent in Python, and I have been playing around with Blender for a while, and looking through the other import/export scripts for it, it doesn't seem like it should be that hard.

I have been using Blender for a while now, and I know python pretty well. If there is a request I could try and make an import script for Blender. I might even start now, but I will work harder on it if there is enough requests.

Ok, would the linux version work on PowerPC? I am about to install Ubuntu, (not just for this, I have been meaning to do this for weeks), and I was hoping that I could play it. But I remember somewhere that even on the same linux distro, the programs have to be recompiled for the other systems.

I would like to buy Darwinia, but I want to play it on my Mac as well as my PC. If I were to buy the Windows version, could I copy the data files to the mac demo? Or what would I have to do?