Before Truespace, Caligari published 3D software for the Amiga OS.  The program Caligari Broadcast saved objects in the .sobj format.  I have some objects in that format but can't find anything capable of converting them to .obj.  There was a bug in Truespace 1.0 that caused these objects to come in with offset axes.  I think it was fixed later, but I'm not sure where to get early versions of Truespace at this time, and if they still would work under Win7.  I had a program called PixelPro ages ago that could read the .obj format, but I've never been able to get it to run since leaving Win2K years ago.  Anyone have a suggestion for this unusual problem?

is the file format text or binary ?

accutrans from micromouse handles some caligari formats, I do not know if it handles the ones you need.  30 day trial.....

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Bill

Quote - is the file format text or binary ?

Based on how a file looks in notepad I'm guessing binary...  Text, I think, would be easier to parse.

"CALBSOBJVERS002
 
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it's .SOB and tS 4 can read it... dunno about 5/6/7... and since MS killed Caligari...

Quote - it's .SOB and tS 4 can read it... dunno about 5/6/7... and since MS killed Caligari...

It may be the same as .sob, but all of them were originally saved with the extension .sobj.  I do have some older versions of Truespace laying around somewhere, was hoping to find something a little smaller to handle the task, and hadn't used Truespace since moving to Win7 64-bit.  I suppose they should still work if I can find the disks.

.sobj was what I saw looking around a bit - had never heard of it. I got the free TS7, but yet to install it. Imports probably don't go back that far but you never know. If you have a copy of Win2K or 98 around, using VirtualBox, VirtualPC etc. to set up a virtual machine might be helpful for those old programs.

It's been a while, but I seem to remember that CrossDos truncated the extensions to three letters when you wrote an Amiga file to a PC formatted disk (it also shortened file names to ten letters to conform to MS-Dos conventions).  That might be why .sobj files often only survive today with the .sob extension.  Makes we think I probably renamed my files manually at some point in time...