Serious help needed converting!!!!

labtek9 · **Serious help needed converting!!!! -** 10-01-2009, 06:06 AM

hey i found a droid & clone model but i dont know ANYTHING about converting so i was hoping somebody would convert this droid and clone I found its what I need to almost complete my game who ever knows how to convert I WILL GIVE FULL CREDIT FOR CLONE AND DROID!!!

Thankyou for you help

labtek9 · 10-01-2009, 06:15 AM

and this

x2495iiii · 10-05-2009, 07:48 PM

Two bits of bad news:

1. I just got a program recommended by Dr. Jim (the expert in these here parts) called 4D Blue which can export models in a format Alice recognizes, but it doesn't take the model format you have, .pk3 (Quake file format) and .glm (Ghoul mesh, an apparently unknown file format, as Google only yielded the obvious, that it's a 3d file format, and nothing else)

2. Just looking at the textures and icons included in the pk3 files, it looks like the models you found, though very nice, are actually TOO nice, or too complex, for Alice to handle anyway.

My advice: find a simpler model in a more popular format, like .3ds or .obj, or ask Dr. Jim personally and see if he'll help you out.

10-20-2009, 09:38 PM

a question? can u convert sketchup files to alice? i heard that u change it to a *.ase file. but it doesnt work. the file's a lightsaber of darth vader's, and a desktop computer.

x2495iiii · 10-21-2009, 03:47 AM

It took a MASSIVE amount of work, but here's the finished product.

I don't recommend using the lightsaber very much, as it has a polygon count of nearly 20,000, way too large for Alice to handle easily. It should be okay in simple worlds or for display, but don't get carried away.

10-21-2009, 05:53 PM

Thank you so much how did you do it????

x2495iiii · 10-21-2009, 08:28 PM

I exported the file from Sketchup Express as a .dae file, then downloaded a plugin which allowed Blender to import (and export) .dae files. Once imported, you can export it as a .3ds file, which can then be converted to a .ase (Alice-friendly) file. After that, however, you have to open the .ase file in notepad and delete all periods in the names of any materials or nodes in the object (and that's the hard part).

It took me about two and a half hours total of searching, downloading, converting, deleting, and testing to get it finally done.

10-22-2009, 08:48 PM

oh wow. well, thnx. im not gonna say u didnt hav 2. that sounds rude. but i have skp free. and it duznt export very well.

x2495iiii · 10-22-2009, 11:22 PM

Sketchup Express is Skp free. That's weird, though, since Sketchup Free should be able to export just fine, just in terrible, obscure formats.

Chris101b · 10-28-2009, 02:31 AM

You know that in notepad you could gone to "edit->replace" and then replaced all of the "." with nothing. Takes a few seconds