Re: [Plib-users] SSG for 3ds and ASE

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Dan Gelb wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to use SSG for loading up some models out of 3DSMax, and I'm
> having a few problems.  Sorry if these are newbie issues, I just started
> trying to use Plib.  I looked through the mailing list archive but didn't
> see these problems mentioned.
> 
> 1. Objects with just plain color properties, no textures, show up as white
> instead of the correct color.  Textured objects work properly.  I've taken
> the tux_example and replaced the tux model with models from 3DSMax, but
> only textured objects show up properly.  Is there something I need to enable?

It sounds like texturing is enabled - but no texture is currently bound.

OpenGL substitutes white texels when this happens.

> 2. Some models work when exported into ASE format, but crash when tried
> in .3ds format.  This happens in parse_mapname in ssgLoad3ds.cxx on line 272
> when strcmp seems to be passed a bad mapname.
> 
> 3. Some models load in 3ds format, but crash in ASE format.  The crash
> seems to happen in ssgFlatten.

ssgFlatten needs to be 'retired' - it was really only intended to clean up
AC3D models after they are loaded in order to get reasonable performance
from them.

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