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by Brian David Pearson · in Collada Test · 02/15/2012 (12:44 pm) · 13 replies

i have a 3ds model file i got of a website made in 3ds and i want to use it but i cant find how to export to Collada format and i don't have 3ds nor am i willing to buy it EXPENSIVE

can you help me?



Also i have looked in the forums and i cant find how to make hexagon 2 files in to collada format do any of you know of a way?
or can find one?
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
02/15/2012 (2:15 pm)
Did you pick up Daz Studio as well? You should be able to load .3ds or .obj files into it and then export as Collada from it. At least, I think so. I'm trying to remember the export formats.

Brian David Pearson
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#2
02/15/2012 (2:36 pm)
well how do i export in different format cause i click export in daz4 and it only exports it not giving options to change formats when exporting

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
02/15/2012 (2:45 pm)
I don't remember since I haven't used it in a while. Is there a Save As... where you can change the file type? Have you asked on the Daz3D forums how the best way to get Hexagon data into the Collada format?

Brian David Pearson
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#4
02/15/2012 (2:55 pm)
yes only in hexagon and it only formats it in to the following formats: Carrara, Amapi developer, Wavefront OBJ, Second life sculptie, 3D studio, STL, DWG, DXF

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#5
02/15/2012 (2:58 pm)
What you need to figure out next is how to get it from an .obj or .3ds to COLLADA.

Brian David Pearson
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#6
02/15/2012 (3:04 pm)
how do i do that

Brian David Pearson
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#7
02/15/2012 (3:07 pm)
if it does not have that format?

Brian David Pearson
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#8
02/15/2012 (3:12 pm)
Thanks found a app that does just that

Brian David Pearson
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#9
02/15/2012 (3:14 pm)
i now am having another problem i put them in torque and it doesn't show its like its invisible

Ahsan Muzaheed
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#10
07/08/2012 (11:27 am)
use fragmotion for convertion.free version also work well.
then use blender 2.48 to export it into collada.

Torque Owner Dan Webb
PsyCandy Games
#11
07/24/2012 (2:24 am)
Blender imports .3ds fine. I buy models in .3ds specifically and I've had only 1 issue with it. All I had to do was flip the normals and that issue was fixed. Exporting has a trick to it though. You need to save it as a .blend before exporting the .dae for some reason. I guess internally it's a two step operation.

Torque Owner Gary Roberson
CJW Enterprises
#12
08/02/2012 (1:42 pm)
Youi might bpick up something like Ultimate Unwrap shich supporst Collada!

Jimmy R Armes
#13
10/31/2012 (4:48 am)
I know this is an old thread but I'm gonna necro post. The new Daz Studio 4.5 and export to collada. I haven't tested it with Torque though.