Greetings.
This could be an old question, but I couldn’t find anything about it when searching the forums.
I’m looking at a C++ object loader for .3ds, and are trying to convert it to java/jogl. Have anyone made a complete .3ds (or other formats) loader for JoGL I could look at? Or know about any on the web, for that matter.
Cheers,
ney.
A 3ds loader:
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=share;action=display;num=1061796369
Might be some other object loaders in one of the nehe ports:
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=jogl;action=display;num=1064699713
Here’s a link to tons of tutorials and code examples;
http://web.hypersurf.com/~sully/OpenGL/DemoBox.html
These are geared for gl4java but using with jogl should be identical. A few of them deal with loading models, like NeHe 31: Loading MS3D models would be a good one to look at.
Basically the procedure for loading a binary file is reading the file into a byte[] then reading out ints or chars or whatever as you go. Of course you have to know the file format.