I found that aspect of OBJ extremely useful in testing my exporter for Hash 
AM. I could just open the file and see if everything was being written 
correctly.

Another advantage of OBJ is that it support quads. I think 3DS only supports 
triangles?

"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Kyle <no### [at] spamok> wrote:
>> I'd suggest the Wavefront OBJ file format...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obj
>
> OBJ is extremely simple, too.  Just ASCII text, so I was able to
> reverse-engineer it and make a shell script to convert it to mesh2 format. 
> 3DS
> appears to be binary formatted which, while not difficult to work with, is 
> that
> much more complex for debugging.
>
> - Ricky
>

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