3ds max map exporting

[Silent Kane]

I've recently started working on a map exporter for 3ds max.

It currently supports exporting full hammer compatible geometry.

Displaying of Source textures and .vmf import will follow soon.
I'm also planning to add entity support etc.

Click here to view a screenshot of hammer displaying a simple sphere object exported from 3ds max.

Updates will be posted here.

 

[Dario D.]

Cool. That should make curvy architecture a lot easier, as well as complicated / curvy layouts.

 

[SidewinderX]

Does this convert the geometry to brushes? I'm not a mapper, so I might have this wrong, but I thought the purpose of using brushes in hammer was that the player doesn't render brushes that aren't seen, but if a player see part of a model (from, say, max) he renders the whole mesh.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

http://www.maple3d.com/MainFrameGLB3Page.htm

Here's a similar tool you might want to look at for ideas for your program

One thing I don't like about the tool is it costs like almost 100 bucks to use *sigh*

 

[AgentXen]

This sounds like a very good idea.