There are an exporter for Blender (TVM and TVA) ?

[mauricio.cunha]

Maybe I am the unique to quest it, but is possible make an exporter for Blender ?
If exists a specification of TVM and TVA format, where I found ?

[SylvainTV]

Nope, there is none unfortunately.
Nope TVM and TVA specs are not released. The formats re quite tied to the engine structure  for quick loading and not easy to write/read.

[mauricio.cunha]

Nope, there is none unfortunately.
Nope TVM and TVA specs are not released. The formats re quite tied to the engine structure  for quick loading and not easy to write/read.

I use exporters created for single persons that received the specification of a file format (like blitz and .b3d format) and created excelents exporters for Blender.

The file format of TVA / TVM not is opened ?

[jviper]

No. Your better off exporting to .x from blender, then if you really want, save out to tva/tvm.

[mauricio.cunha]

No. Your better off exporting to .x from blender, then if you really want, save out to tva/tvm.

Yes...yes...
But the standard exporter for .X file format of Blender have bugs.
WHen you use the exporter standard the final file dont is converted to TVA/TVM.
Anyway, I'll continue using this technique with the DirectX Exporter v3

[jviper]

You're going to run into that poroblem frequently. You just have to find a good exporter. Problem is many 3rd party exporter scripts are just not written correctly, as if people are not checking the DirectX File format beore they start writing code (or they don't understand it).

[mauricio.cunha]

Very strange...
The standard exporter of .x format works fine for TrueVision, but the TrueVision dont recognize the group names of .x file created.

Code:

    public void Initialize()
    {
        this.m_filename = BillyEngineFolders.Folder(BillyEngineFolders.CONST_BILLY_FOLDER_TYPE.eCBFTLevel) + this.m_scenename + "\\@map.x";

        if (System.IO.File.Exists(m_filename) == false)
        {
            throw new Exception("File " + m_filename + " not found !");
        }


        //material configs...
        m_mesh = m_scene.CreateMeshBuilder("cenario");
        if (this.m_filename.ToLower().Contains(".tvm")) m_mesh.LoadTVM(this.m_filename, true, true);
        if (this.m_filename.ToLower().Contains(".x")) m_mesh.LoadXFile(this.m_filename);
        m_mesh.SetShadowCast(true, true);
        m_mesh.SetMaterial(m_mesh_material);
        m_mesh.SetCullMode(CONST_TV_CULLING.TV_DOUBLESIDED);
        m_mesh.SetShadowCast(true, true);
        m_mesh.SetPosition(0, 0, 0);
        m_mesh.SetCollisionEnable(true);
        m_mesh.SetBlendingMode(CONST_TV_BLENDINGMODE.TV_BLEND_ALPHA);

        if (m_mesh != null && m_mesh.GetGroupCount() > 0)
        {
            SetInternalObjects();
        }
    }

    private void SetInternalObjects()
    {
        for (int i = 1; i < m_mesh.GetGroupCount(); i++)
        {
            //nome always empty
            String nome = m_mesh.GetGroupName(i);
            Debug.Print(i + " ==> " + nome);
        }
    }

[SylvainTV]

That's really another problem.
Group names are currently not loaded from .X files.

We will add support for TVM exporters later on.