usually you have loaders for scenegraphs which JOGL is not.

There is apparentally a milkshape format loader for JOGL (which I think is built on some internal scenegraph).

The Xith3d scenegraph currently has excellent ASE (ASCII format exportable from 3ds max) support including the loading of textures.  I believe that support is on it's way for other formats too.

Do a search of the jogl forum - or just look at the last few pages of posts to find out more about these technologies.

Will.