michaelhinrichs / blemd Goto Github PK

welcome to BleMD. this project was for goal to import nintendo GC/Wii ".bmd" 3D models, using blender (blender.org)

The history of this plugin is long, and incredibly hard to trace.

It started with BMD Viewer from YAZ0 (just where is this person's home page?), in C++, then BMDview2 by thakis (https://github.com/nico)

it has a copy on the google code server (http://code.google.com/p/bmdview2/)

Originally I saw it from this discussion thread: http://www.emutalk.net/threads/54262-BMDView2-Linux?p=447701

And that had this download link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21757902/bmdview2.tar.gz

An older Readme.txt file that was found from a file BMDview2.rar said:

latest version of BMD View 2 at
http://emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=26919&page=18
[...]
The official emutalk thread for this program can be found at
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=26062 (part 1), and at
http://emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=26919 (part 2).

Oh, and it is here (http://www.vg-resource.com/thread-21121.html) too.

then, because the exportation was really lossy, MaxBMD, a MaxScript variation that used 3dsMax from Autodesk, was created. It was based on bmdview2pre3 (homepage at http://amnoid.de/gc/ download source at http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=26919&page=39) by thakis. it still had a lot of bugs, and a LOT of different branches. Plus 3dsMax is expensive, And (from my perspective) maxscript is hard to debug due to the need to reboot 3dsMax (a several-minutes process) after each modification. the discussion where it originaly(?) appeared is here: http://www.emutalk.net/threads/44490

It was then adapted by Niacdoial (me) from Avatarus-One's version on Github(https://github.com/Avatarus-one/MaxBMD/) and a bit of the latest BMDView2 program (and planning to use more of it for better materials) to use blender instead (plus, it is a python plug-in, so that language is far easier to debug, and robust IDEs exist)

Finally, the current verion (BleMD) is part of a no-admin-needed pipeline (if you have the right C++ libraries (most PCs do))