(Sorry about my previous messages to the list I seem to have a button pushing problem today.)
Creator is just fine for modeling depending on what you're looking for. I use it for modeling aircraft, buildings, and pieces of cities all the time. I believe newer versions of it even do multitexturing and shaders, but I have only used older versions of Creator that can only handle a single texture. Creator saves .flt which maps very cleanly to OSG's scenegraph structure. Artsy modelers like 3ds max are powerful and let you do lots of pretty stuff such as making very organic (curvy) models and use really complex material properties, but they don't map as well to OSG's structure. You'll need to rely on an exporter like OSGexp to get your models into OSG. I have used OSGexp successfully, although sometimes I needed to hack it a bit to get exactly what I wanted. For an airport I'm guessing you could get the job done faster with Creator, but there's no simple answer to your question. It's best to do a test model in each package and get it loading in OSG. Depending on the types of models you want, one modeler might be a whole lot better than the other. - Terry > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:59:15 +0800 > From: "Loong Hin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [osg-users] Creator vs 3D Studo Max > To: <osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Hi, > > I've a flight simulator project running on OSG 2.2 whereby we need to model a > geo-specific airport. > > We will need features like creating the airport lighting system, geo-specific > buildings, multiple LODs. > > We are considering whether to use Multigen Creator or 3D Studio Max to do the > job, any advice? Thanks a lot > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
