Wings3D Import Export Suite!

Planned Release Date: February 3, 2003

  • Enables Blender to read and write the Wings3D File Format.
  • Works only with Blender v2.23.
  • Imports all wings files.
  • Exports Vertex Colors/Radiosity Solutions.
  • Exports only well-behaved and topologically correct meshes (i.e, closed meshes, manifolds, meshes imported from wings, etc).

See a screenshot of an example exported object at the very bottom of my site along with some more info and news.

This will be interesting! I assume it will handle UV-coordinates and normals back-and-forth as well!?! [that would help a lot - particularly the normals for smoothing]

Actually, there is no support for UV-coordinates, for now. Normals are handled correctly.

excellent idea, i hope youll realease it, i cant wait… %|

umm…it’s mid day and it’s the third…and i really need it for exporting a model to wings then to 3ds :slight_smile:

This should really come in handy. I was hoping to get a more direct method of transferring stuff between Blender and Wings3D. (Once I get more used to modelling in Wings3D that is…)

Also, just wanted to thank you for your Displacement mapping scripts; they have really come in handy on several occasions. Keep up the good work.

i need that script!!!

finally realised it’s a part of yer other scripts io suite %| that coulda been printed somewhere else.

and i can’t get any of yer scripts to work. :x :< :x

they keep giving me errors, like with wings script it says:
Traceback:
file"wings.py, line 717, in ?
attribute error: argv

same thing in all of them except for the file, and the line number.

i have python version 2.0.1, but no pythonpath variable.

i’ve tried uninstalling then reinstalling but no go. :x :x :x :< :< :< :< :x :x :x :Z

Yea! Works like a charm. Really good stuff.

Now - pleeeeze add UV support and I’ll be happy as a clown! :slight_smile:

dittohead,

I’m no python expert, but you should set a PYTHONPATH variable. See the installation instructions on my page for some tips and the python docs.

I think this might fix the sys.argv error. jms once said that the Blender module also has its own sys module, causing some conflict.

Try this and see if it helps:
set pythonpath=d:\Python\DLLs;d:\Python\Lib;.;e:\blender

I really hope you get it working. Let me know.

umm…excuse my dumminess…where do i use this set pythonpath at :expressionless: :expressionless: :expressionless:

i feel like an idiot… :expressionless: :expressionless: :expressionless:

You should :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7723 {just above this… heh heh}

thanks for pointing this idiot there :expressionless: :stuck_out_tongue: :expressionless: %|

wow!
this is an important plugin! thanks!

i can’t get it to work yet,
i tried all the steps you mentioned
on your page, but i keep getting
errors like this:

PYTHON SCRIPT ERROR:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wings.py", line 717, in ?
AttributeError: argv


i even reinstalled python,
but no luck… any ideas?

The sys.argv problem has me stumped.

change:
if len(sys.argv) == 1: # if no arguments are specified,
to:
if 1: #len(sys.argv) == 1: # if no arguments are specified,

That might work.

i get these errors with the LW script:

 PYTHON SCRIPT ERROR:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lightwave.py", line 285, in ?
AttributeError: argv

And these with the Space script:

 PYTHON SCRIPT ERROR:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "truespace.py", line 431, in ?
ImportError: No module named hexdump

export.py/import.py work fine…

is this a unique problem?
do you think it’s only relative to my computer?

Oops! I forgot to include my hexdump module. It’s not really needed, so you can comment out the reference to hexdump on line 431. That should fix truespace.py.

As far as the LW problem, see my last post. Also, what OS are you using.

And do you guys know that there are two windows versions of Blender v2.23 around? It depends if you dl’d the zip or the exe installer. Here are the dates and sizes:

11-16-01 11:38a 1,214,464 blender223.exe
11-20-01 2:33p 1,217,024 blender223a.exe

Who knows if this makes any difference.

hmmmm…
i couldn’t seem to find those two lines…

why does it create that error?
do you think you might release
an updated version of your script that would
curb the “argv” error?

sorry to be such a pain in the arse…

:slight_smile:

scorpius,

Just wanted to add my thanks, your import/export suite has made a real didfference in my ability to use Blender with other software…I use the obj export frequently and now the Wings… Wow.

Great Job.

having the same problem… making your changes makes blender crash…