Despite RenderWare's age (circa 1993) and seemingly popularity, not many RenderWare-specific programs have been created that make RenderWare scripting (ideally, modelling) easy. Creating RenderWare objects was very irritating to me at first and all I had (and still use, for the most part) was a text editor (I like UltraEdit the best) and viewer. So, hopefully, people new to RenderWare object creation will have an easier time of it than I did.

Some of these programs can fit into multiple categories, but I tried to group them into the most appropriate ones. For example, modellers can also be used as viewers, texture mappers, and even converters, but not usually editors.

Note: If anyone has any additional information about the existence of any other RenderWare-specific programs other than those listed/linked to from here, specifically modellers that can load/import and/or save/export to RenderWare script (RWX) format, email me.

Icon Legend:

• : downloadable file
• : viewable screenshot

Path: a directory specified in autoexec.bat where programs look for files. See alternate definition. By placing all the RenderWare DLLs (dynamic linking library) into the same path directory (I use "c:\utils", for example) you don't have to have multiple copies of the same DLLs in each program's directory. This will work for Active Worlds 2.2-, too (AW3+ doesn't use RW DLLs).

Windows compatibility: I've only tested most of these programs on Windows 98 and Windows 2000 so if you have another Windows version (95, ME, XP, etc) and they work fine, let me know. They should all work on any Windows 9.x+ version but you never know...

Modellers

3DI | 4DBuilder | AccuTrans | ClayWorks | Modeler | SpringDance | TerraFormer | VENOM | Wings 3D

RW3 DFF: ZModeler, Sketch-Up

Modellers allow one to visually, through the use of a graphical user interface (GUI), create a 3D model (hence the term modeller). This is, usually, a much easier (and intuitive) way of creating a model because it is done in real-time without the need for constant opening in a separate viewer after a modification has been made, for instance. Good modellers allow for individual vertex creation/manipulation/deletion, texture mapping, hierarchial clumping, etc, while remaining simple and easy to use. Unfortunately, not many such modellers exist. Of the commercial ones I've tried (3D Studio 3/Max 2 Beta/2.5/3/4/5/6, Caligari trueSpace 3.x, NewTek LightWave 3D 6.5, and Alias|wavefront Maya 3/4), I find them unintuitive, hard to use, and have "clunky" user interfaces. Needless to say, I am not "turned on" by modelling, find it very frustrating, and still mainly just use a text editor and viewer to create RenderWare objects (though as of mid-2004 I have, for some reason, been picking up 3DS Max and am making an increasing amount of objects with it). Hopefully that will change soon if a RenderWare-specific modeller can be developed and updated...

Until such time, or until an existing modeller (3D Studio/Max, LightWave, sPatch, trueSpace, Maya, etc) with correct RenderWare script (RWX) exporting capabilities comes along, editing a text file (which is too much like programming to me) will not be easy. But, for the most part, it's all we have so we have to make due.

Exporters

Exporters are modeller plug-ins that export (save) to certain 3D model/object formats. These exporters allow some 3D modellers to save to RWX (RW2.x) or DFF/BSP (RW3+) format:

3D Studio Max RWX Export Plug-Ins

• 3DS Max 1.2 (45K)
• 3DS Max 2 (45K) - Mizzy's tips
  Note:
  
  • (from Andras) regarding "Warning: No context for transform command (line x)" error in AW3+: "AW3 uses a different engine than AW2. The error message comes because there is no 'clumpbegin' in front of the 'transform' command (a bug in the 3DS to RWX converter). The best thing you can do is to remove the offending line (though it doesn't cause any harm)."
  • Grouped objects will export as an empty model (just "modelbegin"/"modelend"). Ungroup them before exporting.
• 3DS Max 3.1 (316K): includes help file
• 3DS Max 3 RW3.1 DFF/BSP (2.63MB): includes help file, docs, source code, examples, and Character Studio plug-in

Alias|wavefront Maya 2-3 RW3.1 DFF/BSP Export Plug-In (1.83MB): includes help file, docs, source code, and examples

sPatch RWX Exporter (30K, alternate link)

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Cyber Frontiers 3DI 2 (156K, DOS): I haven't used this much and find it unfriendly, but you may get something out of it. Let me know if you find it useful and/or have something to add about it here.

• Report (227K): Microsoft Word 6.0 document report about 3DI.

  "Introduction

  The original 3DI program was created in 1995 for use in designing avatars (Figure 1) for “Alpha World”(8), a virtual community in which people can interact and converse across the internet. 3DI was first entered in ACT-SO in 1996 where it won 2nd place in the national competition, since then 3DI has constantly been upgraded. Most of these upgrades have come in the form of a new pop-down menu system, a great improvement over the old menu; in addition, the number of functions for adding deleting, and editing has risen from 6 to 15. Most of which help to save time by automating repetitive tasks. A helper program has been created which allows 3DI files to be “patched” together in order to create more complex 3d models."

• Report : This looks to be the same as the Word document report but with a slightly different introduction.

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4DBuilder .99 Beta (2.8MB, Win); website : A defunct modeller that can open/save RWX format (as well as other formats). I have problems loading most, if not all, RWXs though. :/ Let me know if you have better success.

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AccuTrans: The developer calls it a converter, and from version 2.4.52 on it can open/save/manipulate RWXs. However, I call AccuTrans a modeller because it can create new objects without importing, and its manipulation abilities (hierarchial objects—like avatars: clump tagging, and setting transform joint rotation—a bitch to do manually in RWXs; moving verts—including finding their exact, numerical position, ala HagViewer); and now editing SEQs, show AccuTrans is not just a converter.

AccuTrans is now free (shareware anyway), but has no undo and is way too complex, confusing, disorganized, and badly designed for its own good. It's worth a look if you're a sado-masochist and can't stand doing avatar joint transforms. And if in the unlikely event you actually can manage to use this thing, it's cheaper $20 registration fee might be worth paying. Casay tells me the avatar joint transform help section has been rewritten, but I haven't tried it since avatar joint transforms were first implemented into AccuTrans (and have no desire to try again anytime soon).

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Tim Lewis' ClayWorks 2.45: Can load/save to RWX format, but it is kind of crude (since it's a DOS program) and buggy. However, ClayWorks 3.0 (alpha now available) is in development, which will hopefully be a Windows program.

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Modeler: Modeler was originally created by Tony Polichroniadis written as a final-year college project when studying for his BSC hons at Leeds University around 1995. In 1998, the source code (through my persistance) became available and Neil Colvin began developing it. I list both versions here because the original does not expire and Neil's does (and he may start charging for Modeler one day, so this way people can always still use the original, older version for free), and for historical purposes to see how Modeler has changed throughout its development.

Tony Polichroniadis' Modeler 1.0b (681K); alternate location: A RenderWare 1.4 modeller that can create objects, manipulate whole objects or move specific vertices around, change materials attributes and apply materials to whole objects or just faces, manipulate the texture mapping coordinates of an object, and extrude ("push" in or out) object faces. The only minor bug is that it doesn't remember its "state" (window locations, toggled settings, etc) after exiting, but that's so minor that the benefits of this program outweigh this problem. Plus, the author has agreed to release the source code, so email him if you would like to develop it (and let me know if you do). 5/29/2K: I read from someone in the AW newsgroups recently that Tony lost the source code, but I haven't been able to confirm this.
RenderWare 1.4 DLL (320K): Decompress this in the same directory Modeler is decompressed into, or in the path.
Microsoft WinG 1.0 (835K, Win9x+): This Modeler version uses WinG for the display so it needs to be installed. Just run it to self-extract it, then run setup.exe.


Neil Colvin's Modeler 1.1.0.x Beta 3; website (~2.6MB—bloatware, Win9x+); : By far the best RenderWare-specific modeller I've found so far, this next release of Modeler doesn't require the above DLLs and WinG that Modeler 1.0b does, is updated for RenderWare 2.1, and can also handle RWB (RenderWare binary) format objects (which are no longer supported in RW3). See release.txt inside archive for version changes. Modeler expires every few months or so, which is annoying considering you have to redownload it every time. Modeler also isn't developed much anymore; Neil seems to have abandoned it...but we'll see. Perhaps if enough people email him he will continue its development...

RenderWare 2.1.15 DLLs (689K): Decompress this in Modeler's directory or in the path.

DelonFim found Modeler 1.2 Beta 4.

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SpringDance: While not a full-fledged modeller, per se, SpringDance can export to RWX and create artistic-type models. The website isn't too clear about what it does but the manual says:

"SpringDance is designed as an aid for the study of geometry and structure and is part of a larger project to make math more accessible, comprehensible, and relevant through geometry. SpringDance is easy to use, but powerful -- a learning tool for 3-dimensional exploration of crystallography, chemistry, physics, engineering, architecture, and even art."

Its interface needs some work (it's still in beta) but I guess it could be fun to play around with for a little while anyway.

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Shamus Young's TerraFormer: A landscape generator currently in beta testing (last I heard about it anyway). Read its help and look at some screenshots: . This is also supposedly the rumored modular groundmaking program (which could also supposedly convert DEMs to RWX files) AWCI wouldn't release over a year ago for varied and misleading reasons. But Terraformer can't even handle DEM files! AWCI wouldn't release it, despite E N Z O (AWCI CEO/President) himself saying he would, and then, a few months later, claiming if it was released it would take away money from them; whatever that crap meant. Oh well.

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Russel Pacy's VENOM (672K, Win 3.11/9x); website: (Virtual ENvironment Object Modeller) was in development as a college project from 1994-1995, but has since been discontinued. It is kind of buggy but it can do basic primitives modelling and texture mapping (spheric/cubic), scaling, rotation, and merging. I'm trying to aquire the source code to it, but haven't heard back from the programmer yet. Email him and maybe he'll respond.

RenderWare 1.4 DLL (320K): Decompress this in the same directory VENOM is decompressed into, or in the path.

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Wings 3D: Saves to RWX--that's all I know about it (thanks to Imagine).

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RW3 DFF

These modellers can save/export to RW3's DFF binary object format, which AW3+ supports.

ZModeler

Sketch-Up

• RW3 titles: games that use RW3 and have DFF objects (at least Grand Theft Auto 3/Vice City, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, The Italian Job, and JetFighter V anyway; I haven't tried the others)

Editors

An editor is a shortened form of "text editor". A RenderWare script (RWX) is an ASCII file. Since the script files are just text files, just about any text editor can be used, like Microsoft Windows Notepad, WordPad, DOS Edit, UltraEdit, etc. These specific RenderWare editors are text-based programs used to make RenderWare scripting easier (in theory anyway). Any text editor will work, but these editors contain enhancements for RenderWare scripting that you may or may not find helpful. Try them out, see which work(s) for you, and, remember, you can always just use Notepad or another text editor. I still just use a "normal" text editor (UltraEdit), but these editors may aid the beginner in understanding RWX format and layout.

MrGrimm's Rwx Creator (RWX Edit; 2.8MB—bloatware, Win9x+) (no download) and Rwx Notepad (no download)

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Arlin Tower Enterprises' RWXEdit Beta 1 (179K, Win9x+): An older (but still the same as I can't notice any difference except in extreme file size—uncompressed executables: RWXStudio's 5,339K vs RWXEdit Beta 1's 1,146K), smaller (no bloated installation files and extra, integrated run-time files you probably already have) version of RWXStudio (the next version of RWXEdit which has supposedly been in development for years, but the website hasn't changed; see new website). Don't confuse this with MrGrimm's now defunct RWX Edit (now RWX Creator).

tabctl32.ocx (95K, Win9x+) is an ActiveX module required for the "Quad Maker" part of RWXEdit, if you don't already have it (I believe it is installed with Microsoft Internet Explorer); put in the Windows/system directory.

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RWX Forge: This was an editor/viewer supposedly in development. 9/98 update: the author may resume development soon...but I guess not, eh? :/

Viewers

AlphaWorld Object Browser | RenderWare Object Painter | RWX Modifier | RenderWare RWX Cleanup Tool
HagViewer | Java View 3D | 3D Explorer | DirectX 8 Viewer | RWXViewer

Viewers are a good way to check out your model as you make changes to it and before uploading into a world. What I do is reload the object after any change to see how it's affected. It would be nice to have a real-time modeller that allows direct manipulation of the RWX--perhaps auto-sensing when it's changed like UltraEdit does). There are a few viewers out there, and each have their advantages and disadvantages. So try them out, see which one you like, and set the paths correctly on some [which can be done simply by placing a dot (.) in the field, which means the current open directory is used]. RW programs seem to have a limit as to how large the paths can be, so if you have your models and textures sorted in many directories that path limit will be reached rather quickly.

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Dataman's AlphaWorld Object Browser B-10 (RWXLook) (27K, Win9x+)

RenderWare 2.0 DLLs (393K) are required because this program has not been updated for RenderWare 2.1. Place these in the directory the viewer is installed into, or in the path.

Advantages

1. open file preview (automatically displays object in small preview window)
2. usually does not reset model to "away" view (top or side); handy when making many changes and seeing results right away
3. real-time rotation

Disadvantages

1. no "show ground" view option
2. no joint rotation (i.e. avatars)
3. after reloading an object, unless it isn't reset (View | Reset) manually each time, rotation will be reversed
4. automatically adds odd/incorrect paths
5. top view is actually bottom, side is front

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Criterion's RenderWare 2.1.11 MR2 Object Painter (RWPaint) (36K, Win9x+)

Advantages
1. joint detachment (i.e. avatars)
2. real-time rotation
3. individual vertex/material editing

Disadvantages

1. no open file preview (automatically displays object in small preview window)
2. after loading an object, it is far away and you have to "pull" it closer in order to see it better; resets to this "away" view after every load
3. cannot set paths for textures; textures must be in same directory as scripts
4. no joint rotation (i.e. avatars)
5. no bounding box view option
6. no remove texture view option
7. no "show ground" view option

Criterion's RenderWare 3D Object Viewer 2.1.09 MR1 (RWView) (71K, Win9x+)

Advantages
1. real-time rotation
2. joint rotation (i.e. avatars)

Disadvantages

1. no open file preview (automatically displays object in small preview window)
2. after loading an object, it is far away and you have to "pull" it closer in order to see it better; resets to this "away" view after every load
3. no "show ground" view option

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Dataman's RWX Modifier Beta 1.7 (RWXMod) (61K, Win9x+)

• RenderWare 2.0 DLLs (393K, Win9x+) are required because this program has not been updated for RenderWare 2.1. Place these in the directory the viewer is installed into.
• Help

Advantages
1. open file preview (automatically displays object in small preview window)
2. real-time rotation
3. vertex cleaning (can also be used to reduce verts/polys)
4. centering/orienting
5. scaling
6. "show ground" view option
7. can convert primitives into full, expanded verts/polys

Disadvantages

1. no joint rotation (i.e. avatars)
2. after loading an object, it is far away and you have to "pull" it closer in order to see it better; resets to this "away" view after every load

Email/telegram Dataman ("DMs Ghost"/"DatedMan" in AW) and ask him to continue RWXMod's development since he refuses to release the source code (apparently it requires the RW2 SDK, too) because Worlds, Inc. and COF/AWCI/AWC/AWI didn't pay him for it. Considering it's been years (since 1996), I'd say he's just acting like a baby about it...

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Criterion's RenderWare RWX Cleanup Tool 1.2 (RWClean) (38K, Win9x+)

Advantages
1. after loading an object, it is close and does not reset to an "away" view after every load
2. real-time rotation
3. polygon flipping/splitting
4. vertex merging
5. delete polygons degraded to line segments
6. delete isolated vertices
7. flip incorrectly oriented polygons
8. delete repeating vertices in a polygon

Disadvantages

1. no open file preview (automatically displays object in small preview window)
2. cannot set paths for textures; textures must be in same directory as scripts
3. no bounding box view option
4. no remove texture view option
5. no "show ground" view option
6. no joint rotation (i.e. avatars)

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Hagen's HagViewer 4.8a (90K, Win9x+) : a German¹ viewer with a main feature of wireframe vertex/polygon selection. HagViewer is kind of buggy: in version 2.4, a window appears after execution, with "This program is a program" (duh, no, really?), it doesn't open a lot of RWXs (see below), has refresh problems (and annoyingly slow object rotation!), and it run-time errors. The programmer just needs to test it better, but it's semi-useful anyway.

The user interface seems more adept in version 4.8a; all windows are within a single window now, although their "state"--positions, maximized/minimized, etc--should be remembered when last quit, and there is something called "script command verification" but I haven't used it. I'd like to be able to edit RWXes in it (considering there's a "save" function) but I guess it was never implemented. For years I've been trying to get Hagen (through Dachs, his friend) to develop HagViewer more--or at least release the source code--but so far no luck. :(

• ¹ The programmer refuses to make an English version, but Dachs was nice enough to provide translation and more info about it. I've hex edited the executable and have translated what I could based off AltaVista's translator so it may not be accurate. Another German AW user, Calunga, was also consulted, as well as Lara for a specific rewording. Thanks! See readme.txt inside ZIP file for more info.

• Known bugs: RWXes without a "modelbegin" will cause an error message but will still load fine. Heirarchial objects (usually articulated avatars) and prototypes are unsupported so just copy prototypes into a temporarily single-clump object. If the currently loaded RWX is "Update"d (File menu) but doesn't exist where it was last loaded from, HagViewer will give a run-time error and quit.

• Mauz's HagViewer Tutorial

• HagViewer 2.4 (33K, Win9x+) (windows not laid out like this normally; they reset position each time HagViewer is started)

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Java View 3D: A Java viewer capable of viewing RWXs. I don't like Java much (too slow) and have never used this.

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3D Explorer: I've been following development of this product for years and only until 5/8/1 has it finally been released...in beta anyway. It allows viewing RWXes, converting from DXF, and other things explained on its website.

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MrGrimm's DirectX 8 RWX Viewer (Win9x+, DirectX 8+): An early test version with no texture (textured objects should still load without them, however), prototype, or wireframe support, and keyboard object movement only. It starts slowly because a null object loads, according to Grimm, who needs help figuring out why some avatars (Kelly, bike, techie, and Opie) don't load correctly. Note: cull mode shows reverse polygon sides (like materialmode double). Read D3DRwx.txt inside zip for more info.

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FoxMcCloud's RWXViewer (235K, Win9x+): I got this from Bowen who got it from FoxMcCloud around June 2001. According to Bowen, FoxMcCloud has since stopped developing it and is supposedly working on an Active Worlds "clone". There is no known website for FoxMcCloud and the only email address I have for him are from the AW newsgroups. If you have any information on how to contact him, please email me.

Features:

• hardware OpenGL rendering (windowed, maximizable)
• axes
• normals (which way a polygon faces)
• overlay wireframe ("geometry")
• reload object (doesn't reset rotation)
• world properties: simulate AW world object path, backdrop (+ color), ground, skybox, object password, lighting (ambient, directional, color, direction), and fog

Converters

Converters change/import-export/"transform" various 3D model formats to RenderWare script (RWX) format:

Converter	from these file formats to RWX	Alternate Download Locations
3D Object Converter	formats
3DWin (source code available)	Generic ASCII (RAW) 3D Studio (3DS/PRJ) Alias/Wavefront (OBJ) Audodesk/standard 3D model format (DXF) DirectX (X) Imagine (IOB/OBJ) Lightwave (LWO/LWS) POV-Ray (POB/POV)
3DS2RWX.zip (40K, DOS)	3D Studio (3DS)	3dstorwx.zip
DXF2RWX.zip (67K, DOS)	Autodesk/standard 3D model format (DXF)	dxftorwx.zip
AccuTrans	3D Studio (3DS) Audodesk/standard 3D model format (DXF) trueSpace 4 (COB) Wavefront/Blender (OBJ) (also from RWX to these formats); other formats
HamFon's COB Dump: also converts trueSpace animations to SEQs	trueSpace (COB)
Significa's COB to RWX (down since 1/28/99; )	trueSpace (COB)	COB2RWX.zip (190K, DOS) cobtorwx.zip
Okino PolyTrans: The demo removes every 5th polygon but the models I tested seemed fine.	formats; (RWX export info)
quick3D: RWX files must have modelbegin/modelend in order to be read; otherwise a "This .rwx file contains no geometry." error occurs. Also, some RWXes (ones with prototypes and some avatars) will crash it.	formats
Criterion's RenderWare 3D Converter 2.0 (258K, Win9x+) RenderWare 2.0 DLLs (393K) are required because this converter has not been updated for RenderWare 2.1; place these in the directory the converter is installed into.	3D Studio (3DS) Autodesk/standard 3D model format (DXF)
Rjinswand's LwobToRwx	Lightwave (LWO)
Commie's RWXtoLW (in progress)	Lightwave (LWO)
Xela's Terragen-to-RWX	Terragen terrain (TER)
Criterion's VRML Converter 2.0 (80K, Win9x+)	virtual reality modelling language (VRML) 1.0 (WRL)
Xela's X-to-RWX: Needs a new name since it converts more than just .X files...	DirectX ASCII (X) 3D Studio (3DS) 3D Canvas LP/Pro
Volker's Crystal Space XML-to-RWX	Crystal Space XML

Converter Comments
(quotes edited)

Converters tend to seriously clutter up RWX files with a lot of unnecessary crap. Also, many converted objects tend to have high vertex and polygon counts because of usually being modelled in more high-end 3D modelling programs like 3D Studio Max, trueSpace, Lightwave, etc. Learn more about reducing vert/poly counts without deforming objects.

Challagar: "When converting from other 3D object formats to RenderWare (RWX) the problem that is probably encountered most is reversed faces which give an appearance of the object being 'inside out'. The faces can be reversed by hand which is a pain in the neck. But, who has the time to reverse 200 or more faces individually? Don't scrap it! Just make your object an exact mirror image of the one that you need. When you have it exactly the way you want it (except for being a mirror image), convert it and do the usual vertex cleaning and scaling in RWXMod. Then add the line 'scale -1 1 1' in the RWX file. This line will produce an exact mirror image of your converted object with the exception that all the faces will be reversed in orientation. Using this small little line can save hours of frustration and otherwise scrapped work."

Note: Use Andras' Backside (the program!) to reverse the polys.

3DWin

Dachs: "It always throws away colors, UV coordinates, and other more delicate things. And after converting to RWX you must still rotate the object 90 degress on the x-axis. It is the best way to convert objects from other formats to 3DS and also RWX—or better; it is the least worst RWX converter."


trueSpace (COB) to RWX

• General: Wireball's trueSpace to RWX

• Significa's COB to RWX:

  Shamus Young: "Usually the increase in vertex count when going from trueSpace to RWX is caused by UV mapping differences. It needs to add extra points, at the same location, each with their own UV mapping.

  Example: create a plane in trueSpace. Notice it only has 4 points. One side has the texture facing one way, and the opposite side has it facing the other way - upside down. When you convert this plane, COB to RWX needs to create 4 more points so that each side can have unique UV mapping - thus you end up with 8 vertices. :(

  One way around this is to use a UV mapping tool. If you can give the object a uniform UV map without ruining the texture then that should solve the problem."

  Paul: "You can use Object Union [regarding making a 'part' become one and the same level with the parent object and not 'glue as child'], but you have to use care. It will sometimes (a) leave holes because of deleted polygons, (b) create more vertices and polygons in the process, (c) make some UV coordinates out of bounds when you [convert] the object file. It takes some experimentation. It works best (in general) when you try not to let the two objects overlap when you Union them (although sometime you do what them to overlap) Save backups of your work. (Note: Object Union is one of the three 'Object Tools': 'Object Subtraction', 'Intersection', and 'Union'.) What I do a lot of times in make the object with children, then save it and [convert] it, then load it in RWXMod where I can orient and resize if I need to, then save it from RWXMod which will convert it all to a single clump. Sometimes this is more reliable than using the trueSpace 'Object Union'. Sometimes not. It just depends on the object."


Criterion's RenderWare 3D Converter

I haven't used it much but I get "internal application error" when trying to save.

Dachs: "Yes, if I remember right, the way to get around this is to optimize your object with 3D Studio Max (no idea if this is also possible with 3D Studio). But I know nothing about the exact reasons. This program is very bad. It converts most of the UV coordinates wrong, especially if there are multiple texture mapped planes. Spherical texture mapping converts OK, but cylindrical texture mapping apprently makes a very ugly seam on the backside of most objects. You must repair the UV errors by by hand or convert the model to 3D Studio Max and use the better RWX export plugin."

Crossroads 3D: Converts from other formats to formats usable by the above converters.

Challagar: "The main reason I use Crossroads is because it doesn't require the parsing to be totally accurate in order for it to read an object, whereas the slightest flaw will prevent an object from being rendered by Criterion's VRML Converter 2.0 (which is over 50% of the time in my case). Crossroads will read flawed VRML objects and output flawless ones that can then be converted to RWX. Also, Crossroads will read 3DS objects when 3DS to RWX fails to convert them properly. You can then open 3DS objects in Crossroads, save them in WRL format, and convert them to RWX in Criterion's VRML Converter 2.0.

Crossroads usually worked fine for me with no color loss or transforms in the output."

Casay: "I found that by using Crossroads, saving as VRML 1 and then converting the last time using Criterion's VRML Converter 2.0 I didn't get added verts. I also noticed that the RWX was easier to 'tweak' once I did this process. I even do this with existing COB objects after I reduce verts in trueSpace: convert COBs to VRML 1 through Crossroads, then convert the WRL to RWX in Criterion's VRML Converter 2.0 instead of using COB to RWX which adds tons of verts to your object."

Blender

IngieBee (edited): "Export them in .obj format with the OBJIO Python script and then convert with Accutrans."

Texture Mappers

Texture mapping is a pain to do manually. Despite HenrikG's Texture Tutorial, texture mapping is still not as easy as he claims it is. These programs are an attempt to make this process easier, but they have farther to go if they are to be true (including cubical, cylindrical, and spherical texture mapping) texture mappers. 3D Studio Max has very good texture mapping capabilities.

Magine's Texture Mapper; : Also allows for texturing a specfic polygon or groups of polygons.

Shamus Young's UV Map (1,139K—includes Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 run-time DLLs, Win9x+); executable only (if you already have the run-time DLLs: 11K!, Win9x+);

XelaG's RWXMapper

Miscellaneous Utilities

Andras's AW Tools: Various RWX and world-related programs (3danim, Arced Flowerbed/Road Generator, backside, Circular/Spiral Staircase Generator, hdisc, hemisphere, kor, Multizip, objsplit, Prop2RWX, shrink, swap, torus, etc)
• DEM-to-RWX modular ground creator

Ananas' Free Active Worlds Tools: RWX texture lister and batch manipulator, vertex calculator, multi-layer ground generator, Trapez (trapezoidal distorter), and other programs.

Lucio's LPMod (127K, DOS/Win9x+): Modular ground creator, which requires Microsoft Excel and uses HamFon's HamBot to place the modules in a world. See LPMod.txt, LPMod.doc, or LPMod.htm inside ZIP for more info.

Perl scripts (3K): I haven't used these so if you have any more info, email me. All require stdrwx.pl (included) and were found here (dead - 9/25/99; try ):

• rwx2off: RWX-to-OFF (Geomview) converter
• off2rwx: OFF-to-RWX converter (reaquired 10/7/1 thanks to ChrisPeg)
• torus4rwx: torus generator

XelaG's

• SEQ Viewer: View/Edit SEQs as text and shows most fields (frames/joints).
• Globe [Sphere] Generator (182K, Win9x+)
• RWXThing

Byte Me

• RGB-to-RW Color (5K, Win9x+): RGB (red, green, blue; 0-255) to RW (RenderWare) color (0-1)--and vice versa--converter.
• Pick Color: RGB/hex color (HTML)/RWX color converter

Foxy's RWX Tools : Change various RWX things: textures/masks, scale, case, tabulation; ZIP compression/encryption. Includes full source code.

3D-Analyze: While not an RWX utility, per se, 3D-Analyze can be used with any 3D program to force certain DirectX/OpenGL features like wireframe mode, no textures, anistropic texture filtering (which looks real good in AW!), etc.

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