Is there a way to import ase files

Sage

I was wondering if there was a way to import ase files into max.

I found a way. I using the asc II importer found at http://www.maxplugins.de and that seems to work fine. I have to change the file ext from asc to ase for it to work. Is there a better way to do this?

Alex

Eric Chadwick

I don't think so. ASE/ASC is a really old format. Just plain text though, so converting it to another text format that's more widely supported couldn't be too hard... like say OBJ.

Eric Chadwick

Hey Sage, I'm browsing the max9 DVD, and I found a script that might be better, dunno.


\Samples\Scripts\Examples\ASCII.dat
\Samples\Scripts\Examples\Example_ASCII Read.ms

--Created by: Ravi Karra [ravi.karra@ktx.com]
--This scripts reads positional data from a ascii file and creates objects
--You need to have the ascii.dat file in the same directory as this

Vailias

if all else fails you could download the unreal 2.x runtime. Import the ase as a static object and export it as an OBJ.

Sage

Thanks guys. It's not really a big deal I just wondered why Max never got a stand alone format that could hold animation and all the scene info. 3ds just blows. Sometimes it unwelds all the verts on my models and screws up the smoothing groups. I thought ase was kind of that except they never had an importer straight out of the box. The asc plugin works fine and it's actually for version 6 and works fine in 8. Just one of those plugins that just work. The reason I was interested in ase was because it's supposed to export brushes out of GTKRadiant with only visible faces. Obj exports all the faces. The other reason I was thinking about ase was to export to older versions of Max, since .max isn't backward compatible. I should add that to your thread Per. Thanks for the reply.

Alex

Eric Chadwick

BFF is the best format for backwards-compatibility, but it is max-specific (being maxscript-based)
http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/darkmoon/bff/