trueSpace COB import for Blender

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trueSpace COB import for Blender

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Import tS object files to Blender updated to work with the new 2.80 beta version.
The Blender 2.74 conversion was done in 2015

http://clintons3d.com/plugins/carrara/index.html

Original for Blender 2.32: http://scorpius.github.io/blender-plugins.htm
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Excellent. Thanks! I have some old TS things I want to use but I don't want to install TS just to get them.
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Added some more changes today:

imports curves
reads all transformations: translation, rotation and scale
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Todays changes:

Rotations are not converted correctly so they've been removed
Position and scale are still used
Added lights
Reads the scn file extension
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Thank you Clinton for all your efforts. It's greatly appreciated.
A test made with the previous version didn't work for me. I mean, simple objects load well but entire scene generates errors. See below.

I will try the new one.
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Todays update:

Rotations are working now. This was also affecting other items like scale in the first version released.

Only problem is lights are off by 180 degrees. trueSpace lights point in +Z direction and Blender lights point in -Z direction
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Final update, for a while:

imports trueSpace scene layers into Blender collections
import cameras

light and camera rotations are off by 180 degrees and I think the camera may need an additional twist on it's view axis for it's top to point upward
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Thank you Clinton.
I can load entire scenes without errors now. Scn support is great :superbanana: .
tS2blender_02.jpg
Will you add animation and material support ?

The renders below come from trueSpace (VRay) ; I can't wait to see how it would render with Blender's Eevee real-time render engine !
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Emmanuel wrote: 07 Dec 2018, 18:29 ..

Will you add animation and material support ?
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Thanks for the feedback, it's nice to know that it's helpful to someone.
Might add animation and materials in the future after solving the camera and light issues.
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Awesome Clinton!
Thank you!

Might mention to Save As with the .py file extension. For me it was saving in the .hml file extension
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