nedlands1 wrote:Well, AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max are both made by Autodesk so I would believe that there is a chance of importing your 3D CAD drawings into Studio Max and then through all the hoops into the game. Don't quote me on that - it's just a hunch.
Autodesk make many diffrent types of 3D software, I used AutoDesk Inventor a hell of alot at collage, really nice dimension driven CAD, very fast, very accurate thou you couldn't make curved objects that easily like you can in max. all AutoCad, 3DsMAX and Inventor work in very diffrent ways, ive used them all and can use them all pretty well, they are no where near the same.
and nicoliani, if you really think we are going to pay some one to animate for us you must be off your head.... As soon you bring money like that into a free mod which is a non-profit orginisation, ie, the only money we have goes to server costs etc which come from your donations and awards. As soon as you start paying ppl, I know I and many other devs who work soo hard at this mod are not getting paied and this guy on the other side of the world is getting paied to do something that should be done out of passion, not money. Other devs will start to want money, not enough money is there to pay all the devs, the whole system collapse or we end up turning into something like EA where all we think about is money and spend 90% of our time thinking on how we can make more money instead of thinking how we can make the game better.
If you can find any one to work for us cos they want to do it for the same reason all the rest of us do it, thats fine, but we are not going to be paying any one when we already have a perfectly good animator, just hes a little couped out with r/l stuff at the mo and we do not really need to rely on animations as much since we already have a bunch from vbf2, its just nicer to have new animations.
