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Here is a screenshot: http://www.knert.com/cms/images/model.png

Seriously, thanks! This thing has just made dealing with model creation on the iPhone so much easier for a newcomer to OpenGL like me.

Thanks for the feedback! I’m glad you’re finding the converter useful and could work around that ‘.’ problem. I’ll post an update later today that handles that and other C3D->Obj C naming issues automatically.

Just some feedback to save others some time. I used your script on a sphere and it worked fine. However when I tried it on a more complicated object, it failed. The object was created using boolean operations in Cheetah. Cheetah used names beginning with Boolean.1 in the exported .h file. When I globally replaced Boolean.1 with Boolean1 in the .h file, the script worked like charm.

Again, thanks for the script. The prospect of learning Blender was depressing at best. LOL

I didn’t add support for VBOs because the performance benefit isn’t clear. On iPhone, VBO functions don’t store data in the graphics hardware; the program will still copy from “client” side every draw. Kevin Doolan has a good post about it. There’s more discussion about it on Apple’s iPhone developer forum (paid developer account required). And from my personal experience, converting a project to use VBOs ran about the same.

I’m not planning on VBO support unless Apple fixes their implementation (if that’s possible; it might be a hardware limitation.) That said, if someone sent me a VBO patch for the converter anyway, I’d certainly add it as an option.