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Original post by pIpEs ClaNGoR
after beating my head on my keyboard 1000 times I accually loaded the damn thing!

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hmmm... have to try...

Brian Jones: 0x0031 is a floating point percentage (i.e. 0 - 100 in floating point format). For more info, check out the specs at wotsit''s file formats.

Enigma

@pipes clangor:

>>There is a limit on the number of faces and verts.
yes, this is the general limit of 3DS fileformat, a maximum of 16-bit-long arrays of vertices/faces.
apart from that: the material names can only be stored in 8+3 filename manner.
perhaps you should check out support.discreet.com, after account-creation go into download section and download "3DS file toolkit", current version is 2.0 or 3.0 IIRC; perhaps you will find additional information to solve some of your other, remaining, problems (but of course not the 65k vert./face limit)



DJSnow
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Thanks for the info, Enigma

Sorry to bring this back up, but I think you''re wrong Enigma.
0x0030 seems to hold the shininess value for a material.
0x0031 seems to hold nothing, for like when there is no shininess applied to a material.

Can you post a link to the file you''re using? I got the meaning of 0x0031 from the spec, I don''t think I''ve ever found one in a 3ds file yet!

Enigma

http://home.earthlink.net/~bjonesds12/3dsParser/batwing2.3DS

also

http://home.earthlink.net/~bjonesds12/3dsParser/BATWING.3DS

batwing2 is a modified version of batwing. It has a shininess value applied to it. You''ll see that they''ll load differently.