.b3d to .3ds

Servus!
Sorry, if the question was asked in an old topic, but i can't find any concrete answear to my question:
Is there any recomened free .b3d to .3ds converter?

thank you for all...
monkey

It was asked before, on this topic: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=29390

What's a good program to do .b3d skeleton-based modelling & animation? That is, forget .3ds, and all the other guys. Just Blitz .b3d stuff, for use in Blitz3D?

Pacemaker? Pacemaker looks pretty nice. And I tried Anim8tor a while ago. It is free, but I don't know if it exports to .b3d

I think at least somebody made an exporter or converter from anim8or to b3D. Not sure if Anim8or is using bones internally. if it doesn't then it would make more sense to use 3ds.

Pacemaker is the recc. tool, It's not only very powerful, but also a product of an original blitz user. You may also use CharacterFX, it's not bad, but it seems further development is frozen. And then there's also Fragmotion. Finally there's a tool by Andrea, "Blitz Animator" or something like that, that is free and even open source.

See also toolbox:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?cat=6


To answer your initial question: b3d to 3ds

If a b3d file is using boned animation then this cannot be converted to animated 3ds. The model may be converted as a static mesh.

The only tool that properly inmports B3D that I know of is UltimateUnwrap3D, or UU3D. It allows to im/export in many formats