Exporting multiple meshes into 1 .b3d model

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jfk EO-11110
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Andrea - thanks a lot! Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Ross - wouldn't it be better to use a meshless top node, a simple pivot? That's also my question, how do I make a pivot node? would it simply look like this:

	b3dBeginChunk( "NODE" )
			b3dWriteString( "top_node" )
				b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;x_pos
				b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;y_pos
				b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;y_pos
				b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;x_scale
				b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;y_scale
				b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;z_scale
				b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;rot_w
				b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;rot_x
				b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;rot_y
				b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;rot_z
				b3dBeginChunk( "NODE" )
					b3dWriteString( "first_gen" )
					b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;x_pos
					b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;y_pos
					b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;y_pos
					b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;x_scale
					b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;y_scale
					b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;z_scale
					b3dWriteFloat( 1 )	;rot_w
					b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;rot_x
					b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;rot_y
					b3dWriteFloat( 0 )	;rot_z
					WriteMESH( mesh1 )
				b3dEndChunk()	;end of NODE chunk
		b3dEndChunk()	;end of NODE chunk

Would this "top_node" be the top pivot? What happens when the first node is a
mesh? In Blitz there's always a pivot at the top, isn't it?
And is a node automaticly a pivot when there's no mesh data?


Well now we really are able to
A: Read Andreas Source
B: As suggested by Smiff use the B3D to XML source to make exported B3D (eg. by Pacemaker :) ) human readable.
C: Use Smiffs code from the archives.

All of a sudden we have multiple choices WOW!

Thanks a lot everybody!