3D Converters

Lightmaps [8MB]
July 2010 This application improves visual quality dramatically by adding lightmaps automatically	A 3D world with lightmaps looks dramatically better then one without. Click here to read more about lightmaps and about this application. Click here to download

July 2010

This application improves visual quality dramatically by adding lightmaps automatically

A 3D world with lightmaps looks dramatically better then one without.

Click here to read more about lightmaps and about this application.

3DSTATE supports the MD2 format directly. MilkShape 3D is a good program that allows you to convert other formats into the MD2 format, edit MD2 files and more.

MilkShape 3D is a low-polygon modeler, which was initially designed for Half-Life. During the development, many file formats have been added.

MilkShape 3D has all basic operations like select, move, rotate, scale, extrude, turn edge, subdivide, just to mention a few. MilkShape 3D also allows low-level editing with the vertex and face tool. Primitives like spheres, boxes and cylinders are also available.

MilkShape 3D has also skeletal animation capabilities. This allows to export to morph target animation like the ones in the Quake model formats or to export to skeletal animations like Half-Life or Genesis3d.

MilkShape 3D currently supports 37 different file formats from 27 different games/ engines/programs.

Download MilkShape 3D yourself and see how easy it is to create models!

3DS MAX 5 and 3DS MAX 6 Converter (Author Vasbin - BEV Team )

Make your 3D World look exactly as it looks in 3DS MAX including shadows, lighting and many other effects.

Here is how:

1. Download the converter and add the the 3ds script file to 3DS MAX Scripts directory ( the *.ms file)

1. Inside 3DS Max add lighting shadows and other effects till your Max world looks really good.

2. From the Rendering menu choose Render To Texture

3. Select Channel 2 and LightingMap and then click on the Render button (you can also increase the lightmap size to at least 768x768 for better results)

4. Converting the world to 3DSTATE wld format. Run the script (Tools->Max Scripts -> Run Script) and that's all !

5. [Optional] Convert the wld file (text format) into the 3dstate file format (binary format). This will speed up the time it takes to load a world significantly. You can do it by loading the wld file and then calling STATE_engine_save() or by using these tools (wld to 3dstate converter and a simple viewer)

You can now load the converted world from your code !

Many thanks to Vasbin of the BEV Team for his great work !

Note the soft edges of the shadows and how the shadows overlap nicely.

3DSTATE Tools Package 2.0 [ 2.3MB]
1 . 3DSTATE Terrain Builder Using 3DSTATE Terrain builder, you can convert maps into an interactive 3-D world. Consequently, the user can fly around and explore this newly created terrain. Use this application along with the 3DSTATE World Builder.		2 .3DSTATE World Text Editor. Use this tool to edit our *.wld files manually - see 3DSTATE file format help below.

3DSTATE file format help [300 KB]
3DSTATE file format (wld files) is a very straight forward format for describing 3D worlds. Please note though that if you write a converter from 3DSTATE/Morfit to your target format, it is better not to go into the file format specifics ! Simply load the world using STATE_engine_load_world(...., EDITOR_MODE) and then go over all the polygons and output them in your target format.

The Bev-Team 3D Animation Tools Package 1.0 [ 1.83MB]

Animated meshes, Character Studio, Bones Pro, MD3, New MAX 3d animation plugins. It is now all supported using the 3DSTATE 3D Engine.

Feedback and tutorials are more than welcome.
Please send to Jonathan ( @ 3dstate.com )

Half-Life to 3DSTATE converter ! (beta)

By many people Half-Life is considered to be the best game with the best graphics quality ever made.
Now you can use this supreme graphics quality inside your game using the easy to use 3DSTATE 3D Engine.
Please make sure that the Half-Life worlds that you use are free to use.

Quake to 3DSTATE converters !

Using 3DSTATE you can now create a great looking game with only a few days of work.

Using free Quake levels created with any Quake editor, your game can now look as good as Quake3 without having to spend time on the graphic details !
Special thanks to the creator of these converters: Helmut Janisch dragon@ainet.at for this huge contribution to the 3DSTATE community.
Please note that light-maps and the fast frames per second rendering are only available with version 5.0 and above.

3DS to 3DSTATE A converter from the 3DS format to 3DSTATE.	VRML1.0 to 3DSTATE by H. Poort
MAX3.1 to 3DSTATE	Max2.0 to Quake MD2
MAX2.5 to 3DSTATE	MAX2.0 to 3DSTATE
MAX3.0 to 3DSTATE	Converter from MD2 to 3DSTATE MD2 format viewer and converter Enables viewing quake 2 models and converting chosen frames to 3DSTATE format.
MAX4 to 3DSTATE 1.0 Beta	3DS MAX ASE to 3DSTATE Converts from 3DS ASE (ASCII EXPORT) to 3DSTATE
3DS MAX 5 and 3DS MAX 6 . Click here for more details
Note ! Note that 3D animation plugins for 3DS MAX are included in the Bev-Team 3D animation package (See above)
A converter from MD3 to 3DSTATE is included in the Bev-Team 3D animation package (See above)