Cheetah3D and Unity

Unity Engine
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Hello All,

Just thought I would start up a thread for all those using Cheetah3D and Unity together. Firstly is there anyone else that falls into this category? I have a registered version of Cheetah3D and it is a great program. When I am able to
successfully import models from Cheetah3D into Unity then I will purchase Unity.

I believe the combination of these two programs offers a cheap/accessible means of creating a cool game. Any others feel the same way?

Regards

Russell

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Unity imports cheetah .jas files natively.
So just put them in the project folder. Martin did some great work helping us to get the workflow between Cheetah3D and Unity perfect.

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Cheetah3D and Unity work together very nicely for me. As I said in this thread, I need to use Blender for serious UV mapping right now, and I use FormZ for really difficult modelling tasks, but C3D is very good for quick sketching and general game modelling work.

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I haven’t used Cheetah, apparently it is pretty good, but I have used SketchUp. It rocks. It is so easy to make about anything, no previous modeling experience needed.

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Hi All,

I have tried again, this time using .jas format.

Created a plain box in Cheetah 3d, made a generic .jpg texture (256*256) and saved in the standard assets folder /standard assets/mystuff/textures/ and saved the .jas file in standard assets/mystuff/ , it appears in the assets tree in Unity, I attempt to drag it into game and it just “bounces”. Nothing.

If I choose to import the asset via the menu system when I locate the .jas file it is ghosted grey (ie not a valid format according to Unity). This is with or without .jas as file extension.

My apologies for tripping over on one of the simplest stages of game creation, any help/commiserations for my stupidity, would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Russell

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Make sure you have the latest vershion of Unity. Hope that helps. Jeff

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and make sure you are using Cheetah3D 2.5

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Sorry people, I assumed I had latest versions of both, without checking. They are older, 2.2Cheetah, 1.0.1 Unity.

My apologies for wasting peoples time.

Downloading now.

Now to convince my boss to purchase Unity for our school.

Regards

Russell

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Glad it was something easy to fix :slight_smile: we are all human and we all make dumb mistakes all the time, so no worries :stuck_out_tongue: Jeff