I developed a way to export an object from Cinema4D and bring it into Flash with FIVe3D. Since I am using FIVe3D, the object comes in as vector, and not as bitmap. Currently I haven’t done anything with texture, but I would like to try and preserve color data for each polygon. I figure, if you want a bitmap image instead on a complex polygon model, you might as well just use PaperVision3D.
The export method was the trickiest part, or rather, just finding which format works bes. It seems that VRML will give you all the data you need and formated so that I could understand it. The two important exports are an array of 3D points which look like: [ 0 6.794 0, 13.385 6.794 0, 42.833 6.794 0, 72.281 6.794 0, ] for however many points you have, then another array of face sets that looks like [ 0,1,42,-1,1,2,43,-1,]. The face set is instructions on how to connect the points. So in the previous example, the first polygon (which is a triangle, so you’d need to triangulate before export) is starts at the first point (0) then connects to the 2nd point (1) and finally the 42nd point (42). The negative one must be for another use, so currently I ignore it when I parse.
Anyways, here’s just a simple object I exported and took into Flash: Bottle
