[Papervision3D] collada vs. *.3DS file format PERFORMANCE ???

[andysk8er]

There is a parser for it:
org/papervision3d/object/parsers/Max3DS.as

I haven't tried it. I'll see if I can get it working and post some files.
Thanks,
Andy



Maggical wrote:
> 
> I didn't even know that you could import 3ds files with Papervision... Any
> example?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM, andysk8er <elbarto37 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>> It seems like everyone here uses the collada (DAE) format for importing
>> their models. Collada is nice because it's a (theoretically) universal
>> format, but it has a lot of overhead because it is an XML format. In a
>> recent test, I created a car model and exported it in both formats: DAE
>> and
>> 3DS. The results are:
>>
>> car.3DS = 64.3K
>> car.DAE = 311K
>>
>> The 3DS format will obviously save me a lot of loading time, but does the
>> 3DS format perform any better once it has been imported? I have noticed
>> that
>> most of the sample SWFs (in both PV3D and Away3D) that import high-poly
>> models use the 3DS format instead of the DAE. Has anyone run a
>> performance
>> test? If not, maybe I will do it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
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