Loading a scene

Hmm, no replies yet... I wonder if this means that there are no such programs and file formats and that I have to write one myself. I had hoped not to...

I think the common formats are .x and .3ds but im pretty sure any format will do as long as its got all the info (truespace/milkshape format etc) or even your own format. Ive only worked with .x so I dont know about any of the others but you can get programs to convert pretty much any format to any other (and i think milkshape can export straight to .x as can Max).

Yes, I know about 3ds and x. I am using them to store the models. But what I am looking for is a format to store their position and direction in a scene. An example:

OBJECT="house.x"
POS=0.0, 0.0, 0.0
DIR=0.0, 1.0, 0.0

OBJECT=CAMERA
POS=0.0, -40.0, 0.0
DIR=0.0, 0.0, 0.0

etc...

This example is an ascii-type file, but that is not necessarily what I am looking for.

Thank you for replying though Zeke.

Why not use the format you just printed? I use a similar simple level format for testing stuff in my engine, just write a simple spec and code a loader for it. Then you won''t have to learn any outside format that''ll most likely be overly complicated and/or miss some components that your project require.

True. But it is not so much the format itself I worry about, it''s the program for creating the scene. Although I guess that if I want some extra functionality like adding scripts to objects I hav to write such a program myself...