Crashday p3d model import-export addon for Blender 4.0
IMPORTANT NOTE: This plugin is made for Crashday .p3d format! It wont work for ARMA or other games!
To install, download latest version from github releases
In Blender go to Edit->Preferences
Select Add-ons
Click "Install..." button at the top and select downloaded zip file
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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 rotationcorrectly center meshesadd flags exportmaybe load .cca and add positionsautomaticaly set floorcheck if no material is on objectoption to export models with applied modifierscorrectly set smoothing based on material when importingerror when in edit modecheck material names and .tga automatically