Exporting a Blitz3D rendered scene to a 3D printer
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| I have done a little research into what file types are acceptable by 3D printers. Apparently these are some of the 'common' ones: types: STL, OBJ, X3D, Collada or VRML97/2. I need to search the forums for exporting 'scenes' which B3D has rendered into a 3D printer esque format. Anyone with personal experience of achieving this appreciated. This is one source of information with respect to 3D printing: http://3d.about.com/od/Creating-3D-The-CG-Pipeline/ss/Preparing-A-Model-For-3d-Printing-Model-To-3d-Print-In-5-Steps.htm#step6 |
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| exporting to obj is easy since you can read the output file with notepad so it is easy to debug... There is a code example in the code archive ( http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=2801 ) but if i remember correctly, it always exports 3 vertices for each triangle whatever if some triangles which share vertices have the same normals or not, so this can slow down rendering (because of duplicated vertices) (but it may not be a problem for what you are trying to do) |
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| @RemiD, thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated ;) |
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