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AlmightySR
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 Posted - 08/13/2002 : 11:05:22 AM
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This is a letter sent out to discreet and the 3DS Max team. For some reason thier 3D team does not know how to do it OR havent thought about it. Please respond with any info.
-----I’m an Design Draftsman. All my designs are done in 3D with AutoCAD ArchitecturalDesktop 3.3 using the commands in their "Design" menu. Currently I have been trying to get my 3D DWG ArchitecturalDesktop 3.3 drawings into Quake III to analyze design layouts in a Real Time environment. The currently available Real Time Tours that are out are too limited for me in movement and true real-time. I think that you should develop a package with Quake 4 and a Add-on with some form of transfer program that knows how to change ArchitecturalDesktop 3.3(4 is coming out soon) into levels for many games(any game engine that can handle orbs, arcs, ovals, and other complex shapes). Releasing that into the professional Architectural Market would bring in a lot of revenues for Discreet and any other group(ie. ID Soft) that wants to get involved. In fact if you managed to get your hands on the rights to some 3D gaming Engines and a few 3D engineers you(discreet) would benefit from all revenues. Go into any Architectural forum and you will see the demand that is currently no being supplied for REAL "Real Time" worlds.
As you can see I am very interested in using these games that have full real time motion in my line of work. If I have made a mistake and there is a program out there that does this please let me know. I have been experimenting with Tempest and if you would like the results from my experiments I would be happy to give them to you. I am very anxious to see a script out there that knows ArchitecturalDesktop 3D Designs and can decipher them into something that Tempest understands how to use. Currently Tempest is laking in many areas of translating 3DS(the format a export my drawings to as I have not found a script the takes it straight from AD 3.3) to a editable block. If you would like the results of what I have found I can send them.
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thank you,
~AlmightySR
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