Which loader supports materials?

[hunterd]

Hey guys,

I'm sorry if there's already a topic answering this question but I would like to have an answer according to the lastest versions of the different loaders.

The only one I think supports materials (from reading other posts) is the OBJ loader. But for unkown reason, I can't make it load my model. Does one of the 3DS loader handle materials from 3DSMax?

Thanks

[arne]

But for unkown reason, I can't make it load my model

What exporter do you use ? I only know, that .OBJ exported from blender don't work, but .OBJ exported by Art of Illusion work.

Does one of the 3DS loader handle materials from 3DSMax?

I don't know, but 3dsmax has a totally differnt system of Materials, so it's not easy to convert them. But if I'm not mistaken, I've once seen an image of an imported 3ds-file with textures. So I think it should work. But you can't have all those fancy stuff 3dsmax supports.

[hunterd]

What exporter do you use ?

3dsmax

Can you please clarify what the OBJ loader supports?

Which loader should I use if I want to enabe shadow and lighting? That is without manually adding materials and calculating the normals by myself in the code.

Thanks

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[William Denniss]

Better to use textures rather than materials I think as they are supported by the graphics card.  Colours are supported too, but many loaders don't support them (untextured poly's are rare).

Will.