Hi guys, You may remember I posted about 10 days ago about loading 3D Studio Max files. I still haven''t resolved the problem, and I don''t think I''ve even isolated it I have another program (3D Exploration shareware) that can read the model and output the data to a CPP file, so I can see what the data is. When I try and read the data myself though, particularly the Face chunk, I can read in the first 9 faces data correctly, and then the numbers go thru the roof. I''m getting values of about 46000, when it''s a simple 2 object model. Now I''m pretty sure the file isn''t corrupt, because 3D exploration can read the model correctly. I had another problem earlier where I wasn''t allocating enough memory for my array for the vertices, and this seemed to alter the data I was reading from the file. Is this possible? And is it possible that I have another memory/other bug that is in no way related to the problem I''m getting? I really can''t see where in my code I go wrong. I scan the file first to find out how much space I need for vertices and faces, and then I go back thru the file and read the data in, and the data is corrupted half way thru. If anyone can give me a suggestion, I''d appreciate it greatly. Thanks $£¥ We scratch our eternal itch A twentieth century bitch We are grateful for Our Iron Lung

This sounds like a problem I had when I was trying to load .3ds files. Unfortunately I can''t remember what I did to solve it since this was over a year ago.

Since then I decided that the .3ds file format wasn''t flexible enough for my needs and I have written various plugins for different programms (which wasn''t nearly as hard as I first thought it would be). I started with writing a plugin for the program you mentioned (3d exploration). The SDK is up on there site. I''ve also written plugins for 3D Studio Max and Milkshape, the latter of which also supports bones. At the end I noticed that it was easier to write a plugin then to try to read in a .3ds file

If you still want to read one in I suggest you download a hex editor and use that (That''s what I did to write a .3ds reader, and I couldn''t have done it without one!). I suggest Hiew (Hackers view).

Thanks, I''ve got Hiew, but the plot has thickened ;(

Can someone please explain how the Build->Clean command works, because yesterday I clicked it, then my code compiled correctly. Unfortunately I hadn''t backed the code up, and I altered some things, and then, when I changed a couple of things, (can''t remember everything I altered, or from what ) it wouldn''t compile again.

I''m not sure, but I think it''s got something to do with the array I made to store the face data.
Originally I had the declaration like this :

int (*Face)[4] (I think)

but then I changed it to

int *Face // And just made a single dimensioned array 4 times the size. This seemed to work, after I had used the clean command, but then when I changed it back, it wouldn''t work any more. Unfortunately I also made some other adjustments, but I can''t remember exactly what I changed to what. Now I can''t get it working any more

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