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Now with POLVIEW32, you can load a .POL file created with Polytron, Truespace/Cob2pm or even the original Descent2 robots and edit the textures with out having to worry about ruining the BSP tree data.

I created this program originally as an experiment in OpenGL programming. The idea was to implement OpenGL rendering into Polytron to improve that programs performance. I chose to start this work by creating a new program so that I wouldn't mess the Polytron code up too badly.

The result was a little app that looked so much like Garry Knudsons PMView, that I wasn't considering a release of it. But I decided to add some functionality to it that would help me with some other projects. The initial result was something that I liked and felt that would fill in a void in Descent 2 robot making. That void was the difficulty in texturing polymodels without corrupting BSP trees. Cob2pm generated polymodels could most often, not be textured in Polytron without a loss of the BSP tree data and the original Descent2 robots presented the same problem. So, I think I've bridged that gap with POLVIEW32. I hope you find it useful.

Here are some screenshots (click on the image to get a larger one):

The interface is fully WYSIWYG. Using OpenGL it is also very fast!

 Download Descent Manager POLVIEW32 as part of the Robot Construction Kit for Windows 9x/NT (3445 kB)
Robot Construction Kit V1.0 Beta 03

 Download Robot Construction Kit UPDATE from Beta 03 (2370 kB)
Upgrade from RCK Beta 03 only!

 Download Descent Manager DLLPAK32 (V1.1 Beta 05) (3205 kB)
Required system components for this module. You need to install it at least once on your system. NOTE: If you have DLLPAK V2.0 installed, you still need to install this version of DLLPAK in order to use the Robot Construction Kit. V2.0 does not superceed V1.1!

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