Warren, cool, sounds good!
Yeah, the spiders are in the BSP - each one's a func_illusionary, but instead of being made of brushes, qbsp is getting the faces directly from the .obj file. It can also insert them directly into the world instead of into bmodels, but you still don't get collision, and the model may or may not block gunshots depending on the obj file.
I think going via .map is the way to go in the long run, though my approach has the benefit of handling textures and concave models right now... I can post it if anyone wants to mess around. 

omg - keep working on it, you'll get there! 

I probably didn't do that right. I think the real way would be to convexorize the stuff myself and then rotatecopy it. That way I could use your default setting to generate several brushes instead of 1 brush per face.

auto convexorizoring would be awesome though, but likely really mathy and complex. 

Yeah, I had that thought while looking at the gear ... doing it yourself would definitely be WAY more efficient in terms of brush use.

But, the other methods will work now so it was worthwhile as a test case. 

I'm going to do a proper news item tonight or over the weekend but for now, I think we're at 1.0 and ready to release.

+ logging should be more reliable now
+ added more info to log
+ user can specify a texture name for visible and hidden faces

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/OBJ2MAP/OBJ2MAP_Release.zip

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/OBJ2MAP/ReleaseShot.png

Run it as administrator! Apparently that's necessary for some people. 

I just tested the latest version with Wine, and it worked fine. Since it's going to be a 1.0 release, I thought it was a good time to confirm this.

There are a couple of minor typographical errors in the log file. It says:

"Copy To Clpboard : True" - should be Clipboard
"Beginnning MAP construction" - should be Beginning

Glad you shared the program with us all. 

My attention to detail is stunning.

Thanks, will fix! 

is definitely the way to go: http://i60.tinypic.com/zm1c7p.jpg 

Nice. 

I can't wait trying it out, but I'm stuck on the message:
it's not a valid win32 application. 

That's odd. It's definitely a 32bit application. What OS are you using? 

'not a valid win32 application' is typically a dependancy issue. make sure you have .net 4.5 installed (I think that's its only dependancy). 

Yeah, should just be .NET. Although that's a terrible error message if that's what it is...

Also, run it as an administrator. Don't know if that's relevant. 

i think the run as admin is only if you're writing to a folder that is normally protected, eg: program files, or documents?

and yeah, that is a shit error message for a missing dependency. :\ 

I'm using WinXp servicepack 3, but it's fresh installed.
Also I hate adding an administrator and password as I'm the only user,
so I can't even reach that prick.

I think it is the .net.45 not installed.,
but in that case I'm not lucky
because it won't fit WinXp.

I'm an ancient fossil, I know. 

Is(was?) fucking awesome. I miss it anytime i have to use windows 8 

Why is that? I'm honestly curious because I'm hard pressed to think of anything I don't like about Windows 8.1 

Broke a gazillion of awesome old games by ruining DirectDraw emulation.

I wouldn't even complain if compatibility mode worked, but it simply doesn't. 

 

So that was just my knee-jerk reaction from using it for ~1 day I'm afraid. First impressions were not good though, it seemed very naggy, it forced a restart without me being able to postpone. The mobile/desktop UI mashup was confusing at best, and enough's been said about the start menu.

I presume it gets better though use though? Or at least that the annoyances can be mostly tweaked away? I'm planning on building a windows gaming machine sometime soon, so I hope I can come to like the OS :) 

you can fix the DirectDraw problems in windows 8 but it involves changing registry settings. The problem is that it limits frame-rates in fullscreen mode but not windowed mode.

You can fix it by following steps on this guide -

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=99477#1202630

It's not a very well known guide at all and I spent a lot of time searching google for a fix. 

Windows 8.1 works 99.9% identically to Windows 7. 

It's a good operating system. The fact that direct draw is broken is a huge problem for me since I play a lot of old school games. There are other problems I have had running games on win 8.1 (like hotline miami 1 being broke, amongst other titles, because game maker isn't built for win 8.1).

For anything other than gaming it's really great, but gaming on pc is going through a golden age right now and microsoft needs to step it up. 

I've read that Hotline Miami 2 doesn't run on XP? 

but gaming on pc is going through a golden age right now and microsoft needs to step it up

what's fun is that it's not because of anything microsoft has done, but in spite of it. that's one of the strengths of the PC space, that even with msft's totally clumsy efforts with GFWL, constant driver fuckups, and their single-minded dedication to bringing every good gaming experience they can acquire exclusively to the xbox, it's still been entirely possible for other parties to do a total end run around the de facto owners of the platform.