Worldspace units. Workflow for placing objects in world?

[neo187]

Hi all

i was wondering if anyone had any guidelines or suggestions as to how to place models made in an app like Blender into the game world. I am very much used to tools like Unity where you have a visual editor...

I was thinking that I could build the entire scene in blender and then simplyy export it but then if I wanted to "build" the object to get bounding volumes I would only get a big box enclosing the entire room.... or not?

So in that case, if I wanted to import different objects singularly, do you guys know what the JPCT units correspond to? Say in metres/feet so as to work out a co ordinate from the Blender scene?

Thank you!

[EgonOlsen]

There's no such thing as a unit/meter relation. Have a look here (for example. You'll find this question several times in the forum): http://www.jpct.net/forum2/index.php/topic,1560.msg11278.html#msg11278

jPCT's loaders are objects loaders, not scene loaders. I prefer to place my stuff in code, but then again, i prefer using ASCII as a level format even for 3D... .

[neo187]

Thank you, that helps. So you recommend importing each element singularly? Cos in Blender you can actually merge a number of meshes into one object and export it as one. But then I am guessing that only one bounding volume for the entire thing would be created when you set the collision and build it?...


For example, the four walls of a room, do you recommend to place each wall singularly or would the collision work fine if you import the four walls as one object?

Thank you for your help!

[EgonOlsen]

I suggest to merge as much geometry into one object as possible. Everything (i.e. rendering, collision detection...) will be faster that way in almost every case.

[neo187]

Cool. I made a test in the end with a mesh consisting of a floor and four walls. I was impressed to see that the collision checks actually work with each individual wall, I was afraid that the engine would only create a big bounding box enclosing the entire mesh but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Thanks for your help!