Export from A3 Editor

[1para{god-father} 105]

Someone has made a few bases for me in the 2d Editor , does anyone have or know how I can export them back out to TB - in a .txt file ?

Thanks

[Cype_Revenge 651]

maybe this helps:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?150961-Using-inbuilt-3D-Editor-for-map-making

apparently can export from A3 3D editor?

I've never tried it myself :rolleyes:

[1para{god-father} 105]

no only from 3d editor that one :(

[herricktune 1]

I'm not sure how many objects you are talking about but if a reasonably low amount (100 or less) you could do this manually - I am not very familiar with TB (working on my map planning and hf atm) but for Visitor you could easily create a .exp file just like world tools does - I assume TB would import .exp files (someone please correct me if this is not the case). You would however need to make sure you have added all the objects you want to import in to an object library in TB.

What you would need to do is open your mission.sqf file and find every object with its coordinates (excluding live units!) and azimuth. Then put them in to a text doc so it looks like this and follows this format:

"Chapel_Small_V1_F";5836.386;10077.349;0;23.000;

"t_pinuss2s_f";6432.222;10071.42;0;258.000;

"w_sharpstones_erosion";8110.782;10069.652;0;58.000;

The order is "object name"/x;y coords/elevation (use 0)/azimuth

Then name the file bases.exp - I'm sure there is a script that would extract the above from the mission file automatically, but this should work. You then need to import the file in to TB (in Visitor 3 you could use import objects script and assume there is something similar in TB) - Anyway good luck!

Edited August 22, 2014 by herricktune

[pabstmirror 34]

Just messing arround I came up with this:

_northing = 0;
_easting = 200000;

_typesToSave = ["Thing", "Building"];
_typesToIgnore = ["Helper_Base_F"];
_objectsOnMap = [];
{
{
	_theObject = _x;
	if (!(_theObject in _objectsOnMap)) then {
		if (({(typeOf _theObject) isKindOf _x} count  _typesToIgnore) == 0) then {
			_objectsOnMap pushBack _x;
		};
	};
} forEach allMissionObjects _x;
} forEach _typesToSave;

_ouutputString = "";
{
_typeName = typeOf _x;
_xPos = _easting + ((getPos _x) select 0);
_yPos = _northing + ((getPos _x) select 1);
_rotation = getDir _x;
_pitch = 0;
_bank = 0;
_size = 1;
_relElevation = (getPos _x) select 2;

_ouutputString = _ouutputString + format ['"%1";%2;%3;%4;%5;%6;%7;%8;	', _typeName, _xPos, _yPos, _rotation, _pitch, _bank, _size, _relElevation];
} forEach _objectsOnMap;

copyToClipboard _ouutputString;

Problem is it will output something like

"Land_BagFence_Corner_F";203692;4220.97;0;0;0;1;0; "Land_BagFence_Corner_F";203716;4258.21;0;0;0;1;0; "Land_BagFence_Corner_F";203720;4317.16;0;0;0;1;0; "Land_BagFence_Corner_F";203662;4322.33;0;0;0;1;0; 

which is close, but TB expects:

"BagFence_Corner_F";203692;4220.97;0;0;0;1;0;
"BagFence_Corner_F";203716;4258.21;0;0;0;1;0;

Land_BagFence_Corner_F is the typeName of the object, BagFence_Corner_F is the p3d name, which TB expects, right now it's not bad to just quick remove all "Land_" in a txt editor

[1para{god-father} 105]

aaaahhh many thanks that will do the Job !

[granQ 293]

What you could do is of course adding something at the end like >& or whatever, and then do a find and replace with a line break.

So thank you PabstMirror, I will try this later for myself, this is great way to make friends help out and build :)