POF Constructor Suite 2 - Revision history

Mobius: Link to Pof Tools

2023-04-12T20:54:25Z

Link to Pof Tools

Goober5000: more updates

2017-02-11T01:54:09Z

more updates

Goober5000: /* Download Links */ update links and remove old unmaintained links

2017-02-11T01:51:41Z

‎Download Links: update links and remove old unmaintained links

MjnMixael at 01:52, 17 December 2013

2013-12-17T01:52:24Z

Thepsuedomonkey: /* Download Links */

2013-03-12T06:58:07Z

‎Download Links

Thepsuedomonkey: /* Download Links */

2013-03-12T06:57:08Z

‎Download Links

TopAce: it's to its, wikifying, some commas

2009-03-08T18:14:46Z

it's to its, wikifying, some commas

Kazan at 16:16, 8 March 2009

2009-03-08T16:16:03Z

Chief1983: Added blurb about Collada Importer

2008-10-06T17:39:45Z

Added blurb about Collada Importer

Mawhrin: Stable

2008-04-11T09:23:44Z

Stable

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:54, 12 April 2023
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−	'''POF Constructor Suite 2''' is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau. Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows. PCS2 in now stable.	+	'''POF Constructor Suite 2''' is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau. Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows. PCS2 in now stable. For a list of POF subsystem properties used in PCS2 see [[Subobject_and_subsystem_properties]].

−	~~For~~ a ~~list of POF subsystem properties used in PCS2 see~~ [[~~Subobject_and_subsystem_properties~~]]	+	In 2022, a new program for .pof file editing created by Asteroth and named [[POF Tools]], was released.

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 ===PCS2 Documentation Project===
 [[POFCS2Help/HelpHome]]
 ===I found a bug===
-Report it in [http://ferrium.org/mantis/ the PCS2 Mantis]
+Post it on HLP in the [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=77292.0 PCS2 builds] thread.
 ==Collada Importer==

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 ==Download Links==
-'''PCS2 installers can be downloaded from [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26889&package_id=53033 Sourceforge].
+'''PCS2 builds can be downloaded from the [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=77292.0 thread] on HLP.
-Other important links include:
+Development used to be hosted on [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26889&package_id=53033 Sourceforge] but now continues on [https://github.com/scp-fs2open/PCS2 GitHub].
 == FAQ ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 01:52, 17 December 2013
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	'''POF Constructor Suite 2''' is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau. Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows. PCS2 in now stable.		'''POF Constructor Suite 2''' is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau. Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows. PCS2 in now stable.
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		+	For a list of POF subsystem properties used in PCS2 see [[Subobject_and_subsystem_properties]]

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 [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,47596.0.html Index to links]
 [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52098.0.html Version 2.0 Final]
-[http://blueplanet.fsmods.net/E/stuff/POFCS2.7z Version 2.1 alpha]
+[http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=77292.0 Version 2.1 alpha]
 [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,41648.0.html Feature Requests/Roadmap/Completion status]
 [http://ferrium.org/mantis/ Mantis, for bug reports]'''

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-POF Constructor Suite 2 is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau.   Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows.  PCS2 in now stable.
+'''POF Constructor Suite 2''' is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau.   Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows.  PCS2 in now stable.
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 == FAQ ==
 ===PMF? What is PMF?===
-PCS 1.x used POF as it's internal format, which caused a lot of problems and limited the features.  So PCS2.x uses it's own format called PMF (PCS2 Model Format) internally.
+PCS 1.x used POF as its internal format, which caused a lot of problems and limited the features.  So PCS2.x uses its own format called PMF (PCS2 Model Format) internally.
 A POF load goes like this:<br>
-) Open file<br>
+#Open file
-) Read into instance of "POFHandler" PCS1/PCS2's POF editing library<br>
+#Read into instance of "POFHandler" PCS1/PCS2's POF editing library
-) Translate POF into PMF<br>
+#Translate POF into PMF
-) Discard POFHandler instance<br>
+#Discard POFHandler instance
 A save goes the opposite direction.
 ===Purge the BSP Cache? What is the BSP Cache?===
-When PCS2 loads a model (.cob, .pof, etc) it has to translate that model into PMF - it's internal format.  In POF the geometry is stored in a Binary Space Partition tree (aka BSP) - this must be translated into the PMF geometry format [which is very flexible unlike the very inflexible BSP].
+When PCS2 loads a model (.cob, .pof, etc), it has to translate that model into PMF&mdash;its internal format.  In POF the geometry is stored in a Binary Space Partition tree (aka BSP)&mdash;this must be translated into the PMF geometry format [which is very flexible unlike the very inflexible BSP].
-<br>
-When writing the POF it must translate the PMF geometry back into POF geometry - which compiles BSP compilation, which is the part of POF saving that takes a long time.  Now when you simply open a model and edit a fire point and save it again there is no reason to do a recompile, it gets you nothing. However due to the PMF format being internal this would be required as it must translate back to POF.<br>
+When writing the POF, it must translate the PMF geometry back into POF geometry&mdash;which compiles BSP compilation, which is the part of POF saving that takes a long time.  Now when you simply open a model and edit a fire point and save it again, there is no reason to do a recompile, as it gets you nothing. However, due to the PMF format being internal, this would be required as it must translate back to POF.
-<br>
-The Solution to this is the BSP Cache.  When it loads a model created by the latest version of PCS2 or by Volition's compiler BSPGEN it will save a copy of the POF BSP in memory while that file is loaded, so when saving it says "Do I have a cache for this submodel?" if so it skips compilation and uses the cached copy.<br>
+The solution to this is the BSP Cache.  When it loads a model created by the latest version of PCS2 or by Volition's compiler BSPGEN, it will save a copy of the POF BSP in memory while that file is loaded, so when saving it says "Do I have a cache for this submodel?" If so, it skips compilation and uses the cached copy.
-Sometimes when it's suspected that something is wrong with the geometry, bounding boxes, etc I'll ask you to do "Data->Purge BSP Cache" which will clear the cache making it recompile on save.<br>
-Caveat: PCS2 Versions prior to RC2d occasionally would cache when they shouldn't.
+Sometimes when it's suspected that something is wrong with the geometry, bounding boxes, etc. I'll ask you to do "Data->Purge BSP Cache" which will clear the cache making it recompile on save.
 ==Help==
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 [[POFCS2Help/HelpHome]]
-===PCS2 Won't run, something about "incorrect configuration"===
+===PCS2 won't run, something about "incorrect configuration"===
 This is caused by some DLLs that are required for running most applications written with [[Microsoft Visual Studio 2005]] not being present on your system.  You can get the update from Microsoft [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&displaylang=en here].

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−	POF Constructor Suite 2 is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau. Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows. PCS2 ~~is currently~~ in ~~the beta stage of development~~.	+	POF Constructor Suite 2 is a significant rewrite of [[POF Constructor Suite]] written cooperatively by Kazan and Bobboau. Kazan first started writing PCS2 when he recognized significant shortcomings in PCS1 - the fixed limit on polygon size, difficulty in adding support for new file types, the inferior CPU-hogging render window, user-friendliness issues and well as platform lock on windows. PCS2 in now stable.