Hello, I was considering purchasing Cinema 4d. Are there any export to gamestudio mdl plugins available? How are Cinema 4d users getting their work in to 3d gamestudio. Thanks very much for any info.

I think youll be able to export it to 3ds, then you can import it into med as a .3ds file, then use it from there... other then that, i dont know.

there's an *.x plugin available. if you are purchasing the latest c4d, you will get the fbx exporter which will enable an almost 1:1 transfer to gs.

Hiya.

.3ds doesn't retain animation info, however. The .x format does retain animation info, but it is notorious for each developer deciding how the .x file is going to be written...ending up with a sort of crap shoot on whether or not any particular program will successfully read in the .x file as expected. For example, I use XSI. If I animate something, then export it in .x format (v8), and import into 3DGS, I get the animation *most* of the time, but it always mangles the bones (typically, the first bone in a chain gets 'removed'...even though the vertixes that it was assigned to still animate correctly).

Until Conitec can produce the import/export plug-ins themselves for all popular 3d programs (I'd put that at: XSI, Maya, 3DS MAX, C4D, Lightwave and trueSpace), or something died-in-the-wool like .fbx for A7...getting animated stuff into 3dgs is a PITA.

the max, c4d and xsi formats are proprietary and their specifications change with each version, so it is unlikely that 3dgs will ever support them directly. few programs are able to convert .max files, and if so they are much too expensive (>polytrans).

There is freeware exporter .x for C4D, and it export animation.