3DS Loader does not smooth mesh normals?

[robmar]

Its not a disk sopace issue, its a run-time issues, and that will make it all load slower, first the software will have to decompress it, then load it!

[hendu]

Do try the other binary formats, as mentioned. Your list wasn't complete, ms3d, x, etc can be loaded too.

[robmar]

Okay, will work my way through them!!

[robmar]

Was wondering if anyone got smoothing working with 3ds?

[Mel]

Irrlicht should create a mesh which welded the vertices shared through the smoothing groups, and recalculated the normals accordingly. That information isn't stored per vertex, but per face, so it is not that easy.

[robmar]

Have only gone thro the obj loader so far, but the 3ds loader must use a similar process no?

Not sure if I have this correct: each vertex has a normal, but when rendering pixels, we need normal to smoothly change between the vertices in the correct direction.

So recalculating the normal... now does that help smoothing, doesn´t it need the shader to modify the normal between vertices?