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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating or loading your own objects

If you wish to use your own models in this example, you shall need to create one in the correct format; pi3d supports obj (wavefront object files) and egg (Panda3D).

An excellent, free, 3D modeling program is called Blender (available at http://www.blender.org). There are lots of examples and tutorials on their website to get you started with basic modeling (http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials).

The pi3d model support is limited and will not support all the features that Blender can embed in an exported model, for example, deformable meshes. Therefore, only basic multipart models are supported. There are a few steps required to simplify the model so it can be loaded by pi3d.

To convert an ...

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