DTS and DSQ file format documentation?
by Jarrod Roberson · in Torque Game Engine · 01/05/2003 (3:22 pm) · 4 replies
Does anyone have any readable file format information on the DTS and DSQ formats?
I dug thru the milkshape and max exporter code and was wondering if there was anything more readable amd more definative than trying to reverse engineer the format from the source?
Something along the lines of the documenation on this site.
I dug thru the milkshape and max exporter code and was wondering if there was anything more readable amd more definative than trying to reverse engineer the format from the source?
Something along the lines of the documenation on this site.
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#2
There are no official DTS docs maintained by GG. DTS exists solely as a means to get model data efficiently into Torque; ergo, it is not meant to be a really "open" format, like, say, PNG is. Of course, if you're writing an exporter, that's another matter...
12/26/2003 (12:28 am)
It seems that the stuff in dtsSDK is pretty clearly self-documenting. There are some apocryphal notes, but I think they've mostly made their way to the bit bucket.There are no official DTS docs maintained by GG. DTS exists solely as a means to get model data efficiently into Torque; ergo, it is not meant to be a really "open" format, like, say, PNG is. Of course, if you're writing an exporter, that's another matter...
#3
Also take a close look at the shape code in the engine.
It may be confusing at first (especially if you are not familiar with the sort of c++ style), but it really does all make sense :)
12/26/2003 (2:17 am)
Take a look at the blender exporter, or the source to any other exporter available (lightwave, 3dsmax, etc). Also take a close look at the shape code in the engine.
It may be confusing at first (especially if you are not familiar with the sort of c++ style), but it really does all make sense :)
#4
12/26/2003 (9:33 am)
Docs would be sort of superfluous because the DTS format is designed to mate very efficiently with Torque's rendering code... 
Daran Davis