3DS file problem

nomad · Post by **nomad** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:38 pm

luckymutt wrote:
It may well be that there was a problem with the export to 3ds.

You could well be right, or there may be other problems with the 3ds file reader that have not affected any of the simple .3ds models I have used so far. So I would also like to have a look at the offending model file, and run it through my patched version of the engine.

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:28 pm

He sent me the mesh, and it seemed OK so i re-exported it anyway, and it turned up ok in the MeshViewer.exe

The other possible problem (and this prolly should've been the first hing to have looked into) is if he was using the software driver. If someone is just trying it out, and they are using the HelloWorld tutorialwithout changin the driver.
That seems to hide polygons pretty frequently.

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:19 am

Did you guys have to re-build Irrlicht to get 3ds working correctly? If so could you post your built files somewhere so that I can try them. I might be having the same problem.

nomad · Post by **nomad** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:04 pm

Yes, I rebuilt Irrlicht. Here are a couple of links:

Irrlicht.dll
Irrlicht.zip (just Irrlicht.dll but smaller download)

This is a Win32 Release build, I use VC6 so no support for DX9

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:59 pm

The model was displaying correctly in the mesh viewer with the out-of-the-box Irrlicht.dll

Was it showing up ok for you in the MeshViewer? Either your original one or the one that I re-exported?

what driver are you using in your code???

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:56 am

It seemed to work fine with a stock dll. I had to shrink the textures quite a bit so that they could be loaded... After that it seemed to work okay.

Mark_Solo · Post by **Mark_Solo** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:18 pm

now it doesnt show the model at all