A JavaScript port of map2stl by Ken Silverman
MAP2STL.ZIP (9,494 bytes, 05/15/2009): A utility for converting Build .MAP files to .STL format (simple triangle soup). This may be useful for small test programs, although not much else since all texture and color information is lost during the conversion.(Win32)
http://advsys.net/ken/buildsrc/
So this started off as a build engine map exporter. Now it's a build engine map viewer using ThreeJS. Just a quick overview of what the code is:
- dukemap.js - Reads the Build Engine map (version 7) format
- map2stl.c - The original source code that Ken Silverman wrote
- map2stl.js - The unofficial JavaScript port of that code with some additional features
- map2stl.php - The HTML and the ThreeJS viewer
The original exporter only exported triangles into a binary .stl file. The JavaScript version loads things into a JavaScript array and is viewed in the viewer. This version also has some texture info in the data. So textures do show, but aren't properly aligned yet. The triangle soup is listed in global variable map2stl_output which can be seen in the browser console. You can see how map2stl_output is read and converted into ThreeJS meshes inside the <script> tag in map2stl.php.