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  Re: The most common 3D mesh file format?  
From: triple r
Date: 26 Jan 2009 09:20:00
Message: <web.497dc5c7c930bdbfef2b9ba40@news.povray.org>
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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