Are there any model formats that one can use on a commercial game with out breaching copyrights or paying royalties? Or do i have to reinvent the wheel and create another model format? If there are any what is the best to use performance wise? I know that some fromats eat more ram then others and some take too long to load on big animation sequences. I have done work with md2 and md3 but I cant use these in a commercial game. Any suggestions?

Milkshape 3D? As far as I know it's royalty free. You can download and use it for 15 or 30 days for free, not sure which. The URL is: http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/
Don't know how it does performance wise, but I think it's used by alot of OpenGL programmers. It has supports skeletal animation too which is nice!
It also opens loads of different model formats which is handy!
There's also a tutorial at NeHe's site for loading the models and Brett Porter has a tutorial for doing the skeletal animation.

[edited by - J-the-Bear on June 10, 2003 5:37:16 AM]

I''ve not heard that you need to pay royalties for 3D studio, maybe you could use that - it seems to be what the industry uses.

Theres some source code at www.gametutorials.com in the ''code dump'' section under the community tutorials for animated 3DS.

Altho personaly I prefer brett porters milkshape loader (plus milkshape is a hell of a lot cheaper). I''ve no idea which is faster.

You may use dotXSI in a commercial project. It''s a really nice format, not to say, one of the best I''ve ever seen. It does include everything you could possibly need.

And you won''t have to pay rights to use it.

To defenitly be shure to have a free format that has exactly what you need you could allways make your own, i have, and it works great.

Turnip MOnster said

"Altho personaly I prefer brett porters milkshape loader"

Where can I find this code for animation of a milkshape model by brett porter?
Got a link?

Also lc_overlord said

"To defenitly be shure to have a free format that has exactly what you need you could allways make your own, i have, and it works great."

Do you know of any tutorials or examples of coding milkshape plugins? I know a few come with the source but they arent commented much.

I would like to have a look at brett porters milkshape animation code. it would be alot easier then coming up with my own.

Clicky
just ignore the DirectX stuff.


.lick


[edited by - Pipo DeClown on June 10, 2003 8:59:44 AM]

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Where can I find this code for animation of a milkshape model by brett porter?
Got a link?

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here is Brett''s site I use it myself...

http://rsn.gamedev.net/tutorials/ms3danim.asp

This is the link you gave me. i dont know if its me or not but the skeleton animation code there does nothing but crash my computer? Does anyone have an older more stable copy? Im using vc++ on windows xp pro...

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Original post by cphantom7
I have done work with md2 and md3 but I cant use these in a commercial game.

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Why not? Id doesn''t (and legally can''t) protect it''s file formats.