Making a new ship tutorial

[Serpico]

First of all: Ahoy, everyone! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />

I would like to ask: is there a tutorial on how to make a new ship from scratch? And what software will I need? I saw Maya+ `plug-in` somewhere but I prefer GMax or Maya PLE. Is it possible to make and export a new ship using one of these programs?

Serpico

 

[NathanKell]

If you can get the ship in some convertable format, yes.
By convertable I mean something like OBJ, 3DS, something like that that 3D Exploration (or something like it) can read and convert to VRML.
If you want to go the Maya Plugin route, then you need Maya (`non-PLE`) 4.5; if you want to use Inez's tool you need something that will eventually reach VRML format.

So, yes, GMax->Quake MDL->VRML is a path that works (MDL because that's the only format I know that GMax can export and 3DEx can read*).

Can Maya PLE export at all?

*Technically untrue, because IIRC someone wrote a _script_ that will output the object to OBJ format, but not as a file, as a dump to the script window. Since OBJ is plaintext.