RE: [Plib-devel] Model Formats

[Per L. <li...@ho...>]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Dave McClurg wrote:
> The 3ds loader was created by Per Liedman.  It is a very important
> *binary* format.  AFAIK, it works correctly and supports textures.
> Per?

The last time I checked, which was some time ago, the loader worked, but it
didn't seem to hard to find strange models that would cause somewhat awkward
results...which is kind of disappointing, I must confess. I and Paolo Leoncini
are discussing some changes to improve the performance. I also think Paolo has a
more up to date opinion of how well the loader actually works.

> Another *big* todo item is to add ssgIndexArray to the _ssgCreateFunc
> so it can support Mark's ssgVertexArray.cxx module.  That would
> make large ASE models load and render faster since they are
> naturally in indexed array form.

I must have a look at this stuff, since it definitely sounds like something the
3ds-loader could use...

Regards,
Per Liedman

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