TOOLS![]()
Flatland and
others have created many tools to help you in building your Spots. Some
of these help you build entire spots, others help you create or covert 3D
building blocks, and still others help you organize and collect blocks into
sets for others to use.
SPOT
BUILDING TOOLS TEXTPAD A very popular text editor for Spot building is textpad. Mike Jost has updated a set of libraries for textpad that provide all the tags in 3DML and Roverscript.
SPOTPAD Glukalo has created a 2D map editor that simplifies spot building. *Spotpad site no longer exists* BLOCK
CONVERSION
BLOCK2METAS
A tool to convert .block files into MetaSequoia files. Created by Mike
Jost. block2metaS DXF2BLOCK A command line tool to convert 3D objects from DXF format to .block format. Originally created by Flatland, a new version has been supplied by Jimb Esser that handles much more complex DXF objects. DXF2Block BLOCKSET
MANAGEMENT EDITBSET
Once you have created many blocks this tool, created by Flatland, lets
you organize your blocks into a single blockset (.bset) file for easy
use inside Spots.
editbset
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