Voxel Section Editor III will be featured on SBGAMES.
This paper explains the process that night build versions of VXLSE III does to convert the voxel based models from Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 into texturized 3D models.
It will show how it converts the volumetric data into 'cubes', then, it smoothes the surface, give colours and normals values for each vertex and it generates the texture. You can see these things working by grabing the latest beta version of the program. Load your voxel, change the palette to uniturb.pal or something different from unittem.pal and open the 3D Modelizer at the Tools menu. The process takes less than a second, except for diffuse texture generation. That may take few seconds on bigger models, but usually less than 13 seconds on most machines.
Although I'm aware that this feature is not being much used yet since VXLSE III only exports .obj models, which is the worse file format for this kind of thing. I've recently progressed a bit with the .collada exporter, but I had to halt my work on that in order to create the presentation for the symposium.
The full paper will be available in this site after the congress is over.
And, don't worry, I'll still have internet from my cell phone (works everywhere in the country) and also from the event and the hotel as well. So, PPM will still be updated in these days and I'll still look at the forums.
