mercury_zap opened this issue on Nov 26, 2001 ยท 10 posts
mercury_zap posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 2:25 AM
Hiya. I came across a problem. I downloaded some figures from a Japanese Poser site. They would not work correctly with my English version. I was wondering it was possible to still use them? or maybe perhaps convert it somehow into a workable version?
Nance posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 9:13 AM
That's a new one. Never seen any of the work from the Japanese contributors that needed any type of conversion. Care to share the link and let us try it?
VirtualSite posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 9:47 AM
Ive asked this before myself. Theyre in something called a m3d format, and none of the converters seem to work. A real shame, because theyre all gorgeous work.
Nance posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 5:58 PM
He used the term "figures", as opposed to models or meshes, so I assumed they were already Poser files. Not so MZ? Whups, sure enough, it's in his thread title. Just curious, but where have you found the .m3d files VirtualSite?
VirtualSite posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 6:34 PM
If you go into ISO's site, there's a link to something called "Neo-Japan", which takes you to a page that has all these extremely cool Japanese props on it. If you follow those individual links, they take you to something like eight pages of props, all gorgeous, all in that damn m3d format. Somehow these work in the Japanese version of Poser (according to one of the folks I corresponded with), but not in ours.
Nance posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 7:59 PM
New one for me. Have you found out what app the format originated with?
VirtualSite posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 8:05 PM
No idea. I believe there was a thread about this some time ago, so I'll check the archive and see what it was described as back then.
mercury_zap posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 8:11 PM
VirtualSite is right. That is how I found them almost to the letter. Man, that's s~o depressing because they really are amazing. :(
justfit posted Wed, 28 November 2001 at 12:01 PM
m3d format is for "3D My home designer". One of most popular Japanese casual-3d-cad program published from MEGASOFT. (URL http://www.megasoft.co.jp/) I've never heard/seen coverter from m3d to another. But if you can get "3d my home designer", perhaps you can export data using it(perhaps DXF format).
VirtualSite posted Wed, 28 November 2001 at 12:53 PM
I sent a note to Megasoft to inquire about a converter. Ill let you know what I find out.