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database conversion

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by cruncher, Apr 17, 2014.

  1. cruncher

    cruncher

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    Hi,

    I am exploring the possibilities to migrate from Panda3d to Unity3D. I am developing for windows 7 64 bits. I have a number of Panda3D (*.egg) databases that consist of networks of complex roads and a lot of billboards, 3d models etc. attached to that. As I am unfamiliar with Unity3d, as far as I know, the only way to create a virtual world in Unity is via the editor.
    I have my own design software for making these world databases and this design software outputs a Panda3d *.egg file. So what I need is either
    - software to convert the *.egg file to a file format that I can read in the editor, or
    - maybe a native format specification of Unity databases.

    Does anyone know what would be the best option ?
     
    cruncher, Apr 17, 2014
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  2. Graham-Dunnett

    Graham-Dunnett

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    There is no public specification for the Unity project format, so your option 2 doesn't exist. Unity loads fbx, collada, and obj mesh files. You'll want to find something that can convert the egg files into those.
     
    Graham-Dunnett, Apr 17, 2014
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  3. rectalogic

    rectalogic

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    The egg format is textual and documented so you could write a Unity importer to parse this and directly build a GameObject hiearchy with Mesh components etc.
    https://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Parsing_and_Generating_Egg_Files

    Or use one of the egg converters to either convert directly to a format Unity supports, or to a format you can then import into a modeling tool like Blender or Maya and then export from that to something Unity supports like FBX. Take a look at egg2dxf, egg2flt, egg2x, egg2maya, egg2obj, egg2pg
     
    rectalogic, Apr 17, 2014
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