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________________________________ From: Luc-Eric Rousseau [luceri...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 June 2015 11:29 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Writing custom loaders for .emdl and .scn files in other apps I wish there *was* a spec! On Jun 2, 2015 4:11 PM, "Angus Davidson" <angus.david...@wits.ac.za<mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote: Maybe now that Soft is EOL, the best goodwill gesture from Autodesk would be to actually release the file specs. It serves the purpose for them of allowing people a way forward without having to try and convert decades of stored assets. The digital version of closure. ________________________________________ From: Matt Lind [speye...@hotmail.com<mailto:speye...@hotmail.com>] Sent: 02 June 2015 09:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: Writing custom loaders for .emdl and .scn files in other apps .emdl and .scn file formats are not open or published. It's been a gripe of users since day one. To get these files into another application you'll need to import/export using an existing file format, or write your own translator using the SDK and construct your own file format. I have been doing the latter for the past few months to salvage some old work. It's possible. Ability to do it is dependent on your specific needs. If you insist on using the .emdl and .scn file formats natively, you'll need to hack the files to figure them out. What makes the issue more complicated is the file formats use COM/OLE concepts to store data. You'll need to understand COM/OLE to a limited degree to figure all of it out. Years ago Luc-Eric did mention a compound file viewer that could be used to view the contents of .emdl and .scn files, and I remember trying that out, but even with that viewer it was not trivial to understand. Finding someone with expertise in this area, as well as 3D, will be difficult. I would advise writing your own translator, or hiring somebody else to do it for you. Matt Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:07:58 -0500 From: Tim Crowson <tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com<mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com>> Subject: Re: Writing custom loaders for .emdl and .scn files in other apps Let me clarify... obviously I'm not asking about the I/O SDKs for other apps... I'm asking about info on XSI's native I/O formats. On 6/2/2015 11:19 AM, Tim Crowson wrote: > Where would I go to find information on writing loader plugins for > other apps for loading .emdl and .scn files? 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