DeleD Community Edition

Jeroen · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject:

@Vampyre: what are your system specs? And did you, by any chance, remove some of the textures after installing DeleD?

Daaark · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

Okay...

My system specs haven't changed since the last post... hmm what topic was that.

I don't have any DMF files. After the first crash, I deleted everything in the deled folder, and started fresh. My second, third, and forth runs through the program last night were with a clean copy, and no maps. I just made some shapes and toggled the options.

I have been getting bugs when interacting with cylinders for mulitple releases now... I just keep forgetting to bring it up. Smile

Jeroen · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject:

ingalmeyer · DeleD PRO user Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 9

Hello,

I am having a problem exporting to an x file. When I export textures and/or materials, my software errors out. The debug file says that that it can not optimize the mesh. I am using truevision3d 6.2. If i export without textures and/or materials my software opens the mesh with just white borders (which is the norm if not exporting textures). Any ideas?

Windows 2000
Truevision3d 6.2
ATI Radeon Card
Visual Studio 2003

Paul-Jan · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:53 am Post subject:

That's kinda strange! Some questions:
1. Did this problem occur with previous versions of DeleD as well or is it a new problem?
2. The 'can't optimize mesh' error, is that the result of a Mesh.Optimize in TV3D? Note how I am not exactly a TV3D expert, but could you try loading it without the Mesh.Optimize?
3. You never had this problem with any other .X files?
4. Does the .x file load correctly in the direct mesh viewer, or any other application?
5. Are people on the TV3D forums familiar with this error?

I can imagine the geometry of the .x file being of such a complexity (perhaps containing degenerate polygons) that it can't be 'optimized', but I don't see how removing the materials and textures would change that.

If everything else fails, and no-one else is able to provide any insight, can you send me the particular .dmf and textures, so I can give it a shot? As you can imagine, we think it is kinda important for TV3D users to be able to load DeleD files Wink

Jeroen · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:54 am Post subject:

ingalmeyer is exporting textures and they don't work in Truevision... another user can't see textures in the Material Editor... I'm beginning to think these problems are related and we need to take a close look at texture-handling code (when reading/writing them from/to disk). Just an idea... we're at it!

ingalmeyer · DeleD PRO user Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 9

granada · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject:

Paul-Jan · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:

Thanks for informing us!

Two random remarks about jpg's:
1. For some reason there seem to be a lot of bmp's-renamed-to-jpg floating around. Programs looking at the file header (like the Windows Explorer) have no problem with those, but other programs (like DeleD and most 3d engines) will try to load them as a jpg and fail miserably.
2. The general support for "progressive JPG's" is not too good either.