solid2obj

Wolfire's Black Shades solid file converter to obj file

Screenshots

Screenshots of game models imported successfully in blender :

Ingame example of meshes converted to solid files (a simple UV-sphere as head and a Glock-17 made by tigg) :

Current status

Supported :

• Converting solid file to OBJ file (vertices, triangles and corresponding colors)
• Exporting colors to a mtl file
• Conversion from obj to solid file

Unsupported :

• QUADS unsupported in OBJ files (using blender, the option 'Triangulate Faces' has to be checked in the OBJ export options panel)
• textures (solid files don't support them in their state)

Limitation(s) :

• solid meshes can't have more than 1200 vertices and 400 triangles (without altering and recompiling the Black Shades sourcecode)

Usage

solid -> obj (with 3 args)

./solid2obj <input_solid_file> <output_obj_file> <output_mtl_file>

input_solid_file    :   a valid solid mesh file
output_obj_file     :   name of the output obj file to create
output_mtl_file     :   name of the output material file to create

! WARNING output files WILL be OVERWRITTEN !

obj -> solid (with 2 args)

./solid2obj <input_obj_file> <output_solid_file>

input_obj_file      :   a valid obj mesh file
output_solid_file   :   name of the output solid file to create

! WARNING output file WILL be OVERWRITTEN !

Building

On GNU/Linux:

Version for GNU/Linux

$ make

Version for Windows

$ make -f Makefile.win32

Links

Wolfire's Black Shades page

Black Shades modding thread