> > i don't think there is any info of the max file format
> > anywhere. there is on 3ds though. all the 3ds info i
> > used i got from http://www.wotsit.org/ . there is
> > lightwave info also but i think it's too hard to
> > understand.

> skip .MAX - it is more for 'scenes', which IMHO isn't
> worth nothing!

> you can find several versions of the 3ds format spec at
> http://www.programmersheaven.com/

> > i managed to understand almost everything in
> > the 3ds format excpet for one major thing that causes
> > some models to have meshes in the wrong place.

> apply the transform to each mesh? :rolleyes:

there is no need for that because the vertice positions are given after a transform is already done for you. in other words all the vertice positions are given relative to the whole model and not relative to the meshes. also duplicate meshes are copied and saved as though they are each unique meshes; they are not saved once and then used repeatedly over a model. lightwave format is more like what you are thinking i believe.


> > you
> > should try out my program exe 3ds2vxl to see how much
> > success you might expect from programming for 3ds.

> maybe look at the sourcecode to that, reapr?

i haven't released any of my source code. i dislike very much doing that. i suppose i could release my function for just loading 3ds but don't complain that it looks really messy and there is no indenting and it looks like c code and not c++ code and that it is several pages long and still incomplete.