3D World Studio public test (formerly know as Cartography Shop)

#1 So are we still going to have to buy the torque pipline for cartography shop, cause you mentioned that the .DIF format is going to be added in the the final version itself.

#2 Cool, playing around with it now...

#3 No need for Tom Spilman's Torque Pipeline? direct export to torque native file formats?

#4 I didnt notice it was cartography shop.....i thought u had made a mistake and put hammer images....
but no, this new versino is a lot like hammer in interface and menues (so...i like it :P)

#5 So what's the price of the EA version?

#6 Eeew, VisGroups. :( Too bad you guys copied that from hammer, that's its worst feature IMHO.

That said, looking forward to trying this out.

#7 Ooooh. Cool!

#8 Visgroups are not bad....they are not too usefull...specially if u have an option to put a number of brushes all together as if they were 1... (which, btw i dont know if 3d world studio has it)

#9 You don't have to ever use visgroups, but I find them to be very helpful. Objects are automatically grouped into their object type, but you can reorder them however you wish. If you are having trouble seeing part of your map in an orthogonal view, just hide visgroups you aren't working with, so that the view is less cluttered. For example, I can hide all the meshes in the scene just by unchecking the "meshes" visgroup.

I will be writing a direct Torque exporter, as well as .dts mesh importer.

#10 So will Cartography Shop be able to finally import objects like .3ds? That would be a major help! ;)

#11 Currently, the program loads .x and .gls. There is a complete list of file formats I plan to support on the site.

#12 I've been dinking around with the demo (v5.23) and it's cool. I like it, there is one thing so far that's driving me nuts. The Viewport font looks hollow and well, I had to check my glasses when I started to make sure it just wasn't me. Is it possible to make it solid, maybe as an option, or maybe to turn it off? Otherwise it'll just bug me to no end. :)

Thanks!

#13 Can you please post a screenshot? The font used is just MS Sans Serif, and shouldn't look "hollow" at all.

#14 So how much will it cost? and how long before a .dif export will ship? they are the two main questions from my point of view.

#15 Soon, very soon.

I'm hoping to have everything ready to go tomorrow morning.

#16 .dif is cool, .dts static would be better :)

For example, if I model a building, but need some complez peice on non-col geometry that alligns perfectly with the building, I can model it right along side of the building, and then export it seperately... Ah, wichful thinking :P

#17 YAY, Ive played with the demo and I love it(for me its much easier to use than quark.

#18 Chris, that's the plan.

Something like 60% of my users are Torque people...I'm going to put a lot of effort into good integration with your engine.

#19 If you had that up and going, OMG, this tool would rock so much... I suspect that would seriously put the hurting on the Torque Constructor when it comes out.

I'll have both, but, my money is on Cshop ATM.

#20 This map export plugin allows you to set up to three compiling programs to run the map through. This is useful both for running the map through map2dif, as well as for Half-Life or other bsp compilers.

You can use special variables in the parameters box:

mapfile$ - full map path and file
mapname$ - file name, no path, no extension
mappath$ - file path, no file name

Download

Let me know if anything is missing.

I don't really know how map2dif works, so please let me know what the commandline should be.