#translators
A big question for you, but first a little background. We either
directly use or use through one of our affiliated companies, the
following software tools.
a.)Wavefront
b.)Alias
c.)Softimage
d.)3D Studio
Now, we have a continuous nightmare trying to move geometry back and
forth between 3D Studio and the other three programs. What I would
like to know is if your company currently has any tools or plans to
release any tools inthe extremely near future that will make my life
easier?
Additionally if you have a utility to move the geometry back and
forth, does it properly translate multi-mesh scenes without turning
everything into a single block? Does it work in batch mode? What O.S.
does it run in? and does it utilize actually binary formats as
opposed to ascii formats?
I don't want a dxf translator, because it's pretty useless to try to
read large dxf files into anything.
If the tool doesn't exist then I'm going to hire a couple of
programmers to write it. It's rediculous for us to have such a
powerful tool as 3DS and not be able to easily utilize it with the
rest of our tools.
Through Wavefront, I can pull dta from virtually any government or
scientific source and convert it to a mesh, but when I need to
effectively triangulate the mesh and bring it into 3DS with it's
original integrity, it just doesn't work.
Anyway, What do you have to offer? Paul