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Title: Glest Wiki Question Thread
Post by: Omega on 7 May 2011, 19:41:46

This thread is for asking questions so we can place answers on the Glest Wiki. For example, I've run into road blocks before when making parts of articles where there is insufficient information.

So, to start this off, it doesn't look like there's many, if any, Linux users on the wiki, so I'll try and fill in the Linux paths myself. Where are Glest, MegaGlest, MegaGlest's user folder, GAE, and GAE's user folder located on Linux operating systems? Anyone know about Macs or FreeBSD?

As well, could someone with more technical experience in how GBM, MGM, and G3D work? GBM and G3D have very limited pages with almost direct snippets from the code, and could use some documentation on how they work. We could get some actual 3rd party tools like import/export scripts if people had better documentation.

Title: Re: Glest Wiki Question Thread
Post by: CruzR on 9 October 2011, 00:35:39

Quote from: Omega on  7 May 2011, 19:41:46

As well, could someone with more technical experience in how GBM, MGM, and G3D work? GBM and G3D have very limited pages with almost direct snippets from the code, and could use some documentation on how they work. We could get some actual 3rd party tools like import/export scripts if people had better documentation.

More documentation on the file formats would definitly be useful...
I am currently running into problems exporting a model to g3d, and if I had a better understanding of this format, I could fix the model :-(

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I think glest tries to guess which vertices inside a mesh form a face via the normals, which seems to work for simple models, but fails miserably on more complex ones.
(At least there is no structure in the xml files which controls which vertices form a face, so it has to guess it somehow.)

Title: Re: Glest Wiki Question Thread
Post by: hailstone on 9 October 2011, 01:07:45

Quote from: CruzR on  9 October 2011, 00:35:39

More documentation on the file formats would definitly be useful...

This might be useful: https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=5396.0