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Blender p3d import-export

Crashday p3d model import-export addon for blender 2.83, 3.6 and 4.0

IMPORTANT NOTE: This plugin is made for Crashday .p3d format! It wont work for ARMA or other games!

Usage

Installation

To install, download latest version from github releases (blender-p3d-import-export-master.zip) In Blender go to Edit->Preferences Select Add-ons Click "Install..." button at the top and select downloaded zip file

Importing

You can import a model in File->Import->Crashday (.p3d) When importing you can also add up to four texture path's. If provided, the addon will try to load textures from these folders.

Exporting

You can enable export-log which is created in the same folder as the exported file and contains export log as well as meshes list, used in .cca files. This info is also logged in Blender's console.

Lights

In Lights tab a panel named "Crashday - Light" was added, which lets you edit Crashday's light settings. Though, makep3d sets coronas to off and environment light up to on for every light, which may mean those values are obsolete.

Moddeling guidelines

CD .p3d format does not support a lot of options available in blender and also uses some old techniques to achieve certain things. Because of that users need to model and structure the scene in a certain way to achieve a good look. Y+ axis in blender is forward direction for cars. Z+ axis is height in cd world.

Materials

For materials a new panel was added named "Crashday - Material". This panel has material type and texture name used by Crashday. There is no need to add an extension to the texture name, but remember CD uses .dds or .tga.

Creating hard edges

CD .p3d files do not store any information about normals which means we can not change how smoothing works(only by using pre-set material types). While Flat materials will show triangles and all the edges will look hard, Gouraud materials will smooth everything. Sometimes it is needed to create a hard edge on smooth surface. The CD way to do this is to split the edge.

Mesh flags

Since this is highly undocumented, you really shouldn't mess with those. The exporter will auto set every flag as Crashday usually expects. Every mesh has a flags field saved into .p3d. This fields stores some general information about the mesh. Usually, only 'Main', 'Visible', 'Tracing' and 'Collision' are set by the exporter. Other ones i used by the game and set on model load. For example 'Detachable' flag might be set when a mesh with 'det_' is found. In short, these flags are not supposed to be edited not by the game, but who will stop us from trying ;). Some flags should have no effect, but others might.

TODO:

  • print error when no uv unrap was present, or create a default one
  • when importing sort car parts into collections
  • save export import settings if possible
  • apply obect mode rotation
  • correctly center meshes
  • add flags export
  • maybe load .cca and add positions
  • automaticaly set floor
  • check if no material is on object
  • option to export models with applied modifiers
  • correctly set smoothing based on material when importing
  • error when in edit mode
  • check material names and .tga automatically

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Blender plugin to export models into CrashDay's p3d format

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