Object reading

I think that file formats are essentially cross-platform. You can use a .3DS or .ASC file on a mac. I used .ASC files for a project in school (damn school still uses G3''s!). If you''re looking for a file converter like 3DExploation for the mac i can''t help ya there though. Loading files is the same though. Cheers!

Could you tell me how to load an object in .ASC format?

this site has a bunch of 3d file formats http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/3dformats/

plus you can check wotsit it has all the file formats you could want
http://www.wotsit.org/

I wrote my own little file converter for Lightwave 5.x models in RealBasic (on the Mac) ... pretty easy really - just a coupla hours with the SDK (Check flay.com)
Although now I need to find some info on the newer/updated LW6 file format ... anyone here got any info?

Reading an .ASC file is easy, it''s only a text file. Just read through the actual file and you''ll learn the format. It''s essentially:

number of verticies
number of triangles
vertex list
triangle list

Hope This helps!

Does anyone have an example in source of how to do this? I''m pretty new to c and i''m pretty shaky on my file reading.