Quick and Dirty Darwinia Shapefile Viewer (Perl)

[Jackmn]

Requires: Perl
OpenGL plugin from http://www.bribes.org/perl/wopengl.html


Program: shapeview.txt

Takes one argument, which is the shapefile name with path.

Controls:
W/S/A/D - Rotate
Q/Z - Zoom in / out

Not terribly pretty, but it does it's job.

Since I don't know how to produce the material effects (yet!), the program simply gives the models false colouring.

Example output (Incubator):

[Starfyre]

Hey, that's pretty awesome

I think False was working on a model viewer as well.
Excellent job, though, 'll go toy with it

[Hektik sniper]

nice work, will be handy ;o

[elDiablo]

I talked to false, and he's already made a php one. However, I couldnt get it to work, so meh

[false]

Requires: Perl
OpenGL plugin from http://www.bribes.org/perl/wopengl.html


Program: shapeview.txt

Takes one argument, which is the shapefile name with path.

Controls:
W/S/A/D - Rotate
Q/Z - Zoom in / out

Not terribly pretty, but it does it's job.

Since I don't know how to produce the material effects (yet!), the program simply gives the models false colouring.

Example output (Incubator):

The coloring is pretty simple.

If you want my (horribly+quickly written) PHP code you are free to it, just ask -- the only thing it doesn't do correctly is place the objects of the models correctly.

[Cyberdyne]

This is great, have you worked out the colour yet?

This could be the start of a crude model editor.

Could plot all the Positions: of the Fragment: and draw a red dot there. Select the Positions: with keys for up and down and plot a larger yellow dot on selected Position with co-ords printed on screen.
Change position with Ins/Del (x) Home/End (y) PgUp/PgDn (z), change step to move by with + and -, and save that points x,y,z with Numpad Enter in the .shp file.

I`ve been trying, but have only just got perl to try this model viewer out.
Have to learn some more.

[Jackmn]

Oh, I know how the colour system works. It's just that I would have to apply lighting, otherwise solid colour objects would just appear as silhouettes.

I used to have it use the proper colours, but I really didn't feel like having to provide user controls for manipulating a light.


Best thing for editing would be to just convert the files to and from MD2. The formats are very similar (in the way points/polygons/strips are stored. MD2 isn't plain text, obviously)

[Superpig]

This could be the start of a crude model editor.

It would be infinitely more worth people's time to write plugins for existing modelling packages - Wings3D, Blender, Milkshape3D, etc.

[Icepick]

There is a plugin for 3dsmax, which last I heard, Chris was checking the legality of releasing it before he did so, along with the model files from the game.

[Falling Guy]

Plender would be good to have a plugin for, its free, open source and works on lots of OSs.

[MicrOchiP]

There is a plugin for 3dsmax, which last I heard, Chris was checking the legality of releasing it before he did so, along with the model files from the game.

do you know the name of the plugin ?
The standard 3DMax SHP importer doesn´t recognize the darwinia files.

[#fookin.RedOctober]

Not only that you could cut out any uneeded bits and end up with your own specialist model editor.

If only I could get my WiFi card to work with linux, I'd of moved linux 5 years ago if I had been able to get modems to work with it.

[MicrOchiP]

does anyone knows were to find a opengl module for perl (win32) ?

[Jackmn]

It's linked in the first post mate.

[MicrOchiP]

that one is offline.

EDIT: its up, sorry for the inconvenience