Quake3World

I made this program that loads .ase-files and renders them. I use OpenGL for rendering. I think it only works with 3dsmax exported files, not q3map2 exported ones. Anyways, why don't you try it out!

Download: http://alm.gamedesign.net/aseface.zip



BTW, you can move it with WASD and rotate with arrows. 1 is wireframe mode, 2 turns lighting on/off. Page up/ page dn moves in and out of the screen.

edit: Update : Now with some model info printed out on screen.

Don't have any ase's... don't want to open up a pak either... looks pretty keen though. Got an LOC count?

What's LOC?

There's an .ase-file included, btw.

seems nice, will try it out later. That image a red 'x' to anyone else?

Image appears fine.

Might be worth seeing if you can add some form of basic read out like how many faces/verts/number of textures, etc that kind of thing.

Pretty spiffy. Agree with Kat though, would be nice with some info readouts. :icon14:

interesting - do you have plans to release the source? i'd be interested in that. (been thinking of doing similar stuff myself)

i always wondered, how large can an ase file be to cause gtk crashing...?
or is it depending on your pc specifications?
nice job, gonna try it soon

I made some very detailed ASE's atleast, when making the Velvet Yard map, not large in space meaning, but large as in high quality with ALOT of faces...

tkilla wrote:i always wondered, how large can an ase file be to cause gtk crashing...?
or is it depending on your pc specifications?
nice job, gonna try it soon

GTK won't crash (not usually at least) but *physically* and in theory you could make an ASE model as big as the grid in the editor.

Seems _one_ of my pipe ASE's take as much as 11MB, if you can make your viewer handle that it would be great AlM.

MegaMan44 wrote:interesting - do you have plans to release the source? i'd be interested in that. (been thinking of doing similar stuff myself)

Acctually, I already did.

http://alm.gamedesign.net/aseface_src.zip

Kat wrote:Image appears fine.

Might be worth seeing if you can add some form of basic read out like how many faces/verts/number of textures, etc that kind of thing.

Yeah, that shouldn't be too hard since I've got all that stuff stored in variables. Just gotta figure out how to put text on the screen.

You managed to make a OGL model viewer, but not text on the screen? :odd:

Hipshot wrote:You managed to make a OGL model viewer, but not text on the screen? :odd:

Well, there's not so much OpenGL stuff in there, just drawing triangles I put in variables read from a text file. 99% of what I've done is C++ coding, the OpenGL stuff is just for rendering the stuff I've read from a file, which isn't that hard to do.

Also, I would like so that the text will appear in the same place on the screen always, regardless of camera position, like a HUD, which I think is a bit harder to do. I'll definitely look into it though.

ALMighty wrote:...I'll definitely look into it though.

Thanks. You'll probably find you'l get more users with that type of info.

Also something else to think about... do you want the viewer to be capable of handling highpoly models similar to those using in renderbumping for D3? If so you'll need to work on allowing the *fast* import of 100's MB of ASE data as those things can get hhhuge.

ALMighty wrote:Also, I would like so that the text will appear in the same place on the screen always, regardless of camera position, like a HUD, which I think is a bit harder to do. I'll definitely look into it though.

Check out these tutorials from http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Text in opengl isn't too hard. For quick and dirty stuff, there's some things that convert fonts to opengl display lists.
See wglUseFontBitmaps and wglUseFontOutlines http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... r_2r8z.asp

Most 'real' applications use textured quads (store your glyphs on a texture like quake etc does).

off-topic
Is there a good ase-importer for max btw?
Gtkr takes a crash overhere, when loading large poly ase's. Only when loading, once loaded there is no problem
Showing no shaderimage, only wireframes for entities helps

tkilla wrote:Showing no shaderimage, only wireframes for entities helps

View >> Entities as >> Skinned and Boxed

i know i know

Sorry, I misread your post. Got wasted badly yesterday and it seems to be affecting me still

OK, I made a little update with some info printed out on the screen. Try it out!

Download: http://alm.gamedesign.net/aseface.zip

Didn't anyone wanna try the new version?

Just did. Nice. :icon14: