Plugin ideas and requests

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By Ryan, via e-mail:

“Is it possible to export the alpha layers to .DDS? TrueVision 3d only uses .DDS's alpha channel to do transparency for texture splatting and its a pain to have to run the maps through a program I made to transparentify the pngs based on amount of black and white and then open it in photoshop and save as .dds.”

— Aaron 2008/09/17 06:05

See title, or this forum thread. — aaron 2008/02/02 23:54 (for nicethugbert)

See title, or this forum thread. — aaron 2007/08/13 03:42 (for kendo353)

See title, or this forum thread. — aaron 2007/08/05 13:57 (for prautio)

See title, or this forum thread. — aaron 2007/08/05 03:04 (for madcowthomas)

How about an exporter for Google maps? —aaron 2006/11/12 16:27 (for monks)

Here is the relevant forum thread — aaron 2006/11/17 22:10

By byteasc in this forum thread.

Done — aaron 2010/01/07

By guy Riessen in this forum thread.

Done — aaron 2009/04/18

By Macbeth in this forum thread.

Done — aaron 2009/06/13

By Shealladh in this forum thread.

Done — aaron 2009/07/04

By Justin, via e-mail.

Done! — aaron 2009/01/17

See title, or this forum thread (by 3DUser).

Done! — aaron 2007/09/07 21:02

I think it would be a great idea if someone wrote a plugin that was a 3D renderer. — aaron 2006/10/23 08:57

Well sod it, I've done it myself. aaron 2007/03/02 16:55

I'm thinking it would be nice if someone would write an exporter to allow you to export a project to formats that can be pulled into TrueVision 3D easily. (The heightfield to a bitmap file, and the texture to a bitmap file, with filenames that “match”. For example, “testLandscape-HM.bmp” and “testLandscape-TX.bmp” for the heightmap and texture files, respectively. I don't have the resources to write one myself. Mixael 2006/11/11 19:16

Okay, I think I can bash this together quickly. Are there any other requirements (e.g. size must be power-of-two, etc.)? — aaron 2006/11/12 16:27

Here you go! (note this requires an update to L3DT v2.4.2.11, 13-Nov-06) — aaron 2006/11/13 04:13