Quote Originally Posted by savage
PS. Would you be able to send me the 3DS viewer you have created, as the one I have ( Opener by Mike Lischke ) does not render some 3DS models correcttly.
You'll have to give me a day or two to iron out the bugs - it's simply a conversion of the one in gametutorials.com (the third octree part, I think, or maybe the 3ds loader tutorial itself). It converts it into the model format used by the tutorial (which I've kinda converted into a class, w.i.p). I'm not sure it's general purpose, mind you, since I haven't got around to checking the 3ds specs.

If you're in need of an immediate fix, here's Lord CRC's site, which is one of those gems you only find out about by accident . His software 3d engine has a 3ds loader, "load3ds.pas" - again, I can't say whether it's general purpose.

I hear ya on the "Life" thing, sigh.