Modifying a Model

The underlying 3D models in Oolite are contained in .dat files.

 $PROGDIR/
    AddOns/
       ShipX/
       ShipY/

To modify a .dat the file must first be converted to a Wavefront .obj file. Conversion utilities are available here [1], although they are listed under Linux they are cross-platform and require the installation of Python[2].

Oolite forum thread about the conversion tools: [3]

Run dat2obj or dat2objTex on the .dat.

The resulting file can be imported into any 3D program that supports .obj.

[The free, open source program Wings3D [4] is the de facto standard, Blender also works.]

When finished export the model as an .obj and run obj2dat.

Links

• OXP howto model - much more detail (and pretty pictures too!)