BFF - Bobo's File Format
(formerly known as Back From Five)
MaxScript 0.4.2 (09/24/2003)
Copyright (c) 2002-2003 by Borislav Petrov |
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SHORT DESCRIPTION |
BFF
is a MAXScript based object exporter under development.
It lets you
transfer basic object information between different versions of 3ds max using a
MAXScript intermediate format.
No importer is required! |
The script was
developed mainly to move data from 3ds max 5 back to 3D Studio MAX
R3.1 in a game development pipeline. Still, it supports large data sets. It
has been
successfully tested with objects over 800.000 faces and with large
number of objects (1000+) and should work with even bigger assets.
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WHY NOT USE ONE OF THE EXISTING EXPORTERS? |
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.OBJ does not translate all max-specific
properties
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.ASE can only export, the unsupported
importer is not available for all Max versions
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.3DS is the main transfer data format in the
max world, but
- 3DS does not preserve UV coordinates
completely (supports only one TVertex per Mesh Vertex, one Texture Channel) -
BFF supports all 100 Channels with multiple TVertices per Vertex.
- 3DS has a data limit of 64K faces per object.
BFF supports arbitrary object size.
- 3DS does not preserve max procedural maps.
BFF supports the complete max material tree.
- 3DS supports meshes only. BFF supports
EditableSplines and procedural primitives, has (limited) modifier stack
support and can be extended to support Patches, NURBS etc.
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WHAT IS NEW IN THE LATEST VERSION? |
The following improvements have been made to BFF:
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Scene format has been split into Scene and Object
.ms files. This lets you quickly disable the loading of single objects by
remarking single lines from the main file and enables the import of very
large scenes with thousands of objects which used to cause MAXScript
memory problems in previous versions.
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The directory structure has been changed to a more
logical hierarchy.
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Support for Material Editor materials export has
been added and enabled by default.
- ZIP Archive support has been added. Now you
can optionally archive all files of an exported scene to a single ZIP file to
move to another machine.
- Editable Poly support has been enabled
through Editable Mesh conversion on import. This means that the data will be
exported in the Editable Mesh format and a conversion to Editable Poly class
will be attempted when the scene is being imported. If the target platform
supports Editable Poly objects (3ds max 4, 5 and 6 do), the object will end
up as EPoly. If it does not support such objects (3ds max 2.5 and 3 do not),
the object will end up as Editable Mesh as in older BFF versions.
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BFF TOPICS |
BFF Installation
Using BFF to export and import
3ds max scenes
BFF File Specifications
BFF Version History
BFF Features List |
PUBLIC BETA DOWNLOAD |
Download BFF
v.0.4.2 (new W.I.P. version)
Download BFF v.0.3.6 (old stable
version)
DISCLAIMER:
This is Beta software.
It might not do what you expect it to.
But sometimes it could save your behind ;o)
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