CompuServe Messages

ACK!! I don't know what happened! I'll blame it on WinCIM or CSNav. <g> Seriously, the message SHOULD have read as follows: Actually, someone who thinks they know how to do this automated mapping need not know how to do IPASes to try out their algorithms. Just save a 3D Editor scene as a .ASC file (one of the choices given when you do Save As). The resulting file can be read by any ASCII-capable program, including text editors capable of handling files longer than 64kB (all but the very smallest scenes will produce pretty big .ASC files, and some DOS editors and the Windows Notepad are limited to 32kB or 64kB in total file length). You could, for instance, write a QuickBASIC or Visual BASIC or any other language program that has facilities for reading lines of text from a text file and passing them to a string variable for processing. I'm not sure, but I believe TSE (The Script Extensions) BASIC has such ability, so you could use it to write a mapping .PXP, but I believe TSE can also handle .3DS files and even the current scene's objects directly, so there is no need to use .ASC with it. But if you don't have or know TSE BASIC, you can use just about any other programming language with the .ASC files.