Just wondering what is the better file type to import 3ds or obj?? Or does it not really matter

Regards

If i can manage to get something in both .3ds and .obj, i tend to try both.  Whichever one loads better is the one I'll keep using.

Sometimes things work better in .3ds, and others seem to do better in .obj...

Most of us prefer obj import. 3DS has to much limitations.

Mazak

My favorite type is LWO. From all the imports I made, LWO is the most trouble-free. If LWO is not available, OBJ is my second choice. I try to avoid 3DS, it fails on me 90% of the times.

Thanks All.
Are the textures imported along with the file? I waas thinkin along the lines of car models, why I don't know, but  there we go.  Have idea about cars and car adverts I have seen on TV :unsure:

Would you have to change things like glass, paint etc

Lightwave format can cause trouble with n-gons and Vue stop import. And 3ds has limitation of 65535 polygons in file and is not capable of storing texture filenames that exceed the 8.3 DOS character limit. Texture maps imported with file is a unique feature of vue (maybe I am wrong here)

Mazak

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Hmmm can't import .max files??

Mazak, you may be right about LWO but fact is that this is the format that brought me less troubles till now, much less than OBJ.

Alpha, max files can't be imported directly. If you have access to 3DS Max you can open them there and use it to convert the object to some other format.

A more and more supported format is collada! From PoserPro you can import it with animation embedded. 

Mazak

Yes, from all I read, collada seems like the future.

Collada will have many versions just like OBJ and 3DS do.  It's the nature of the beast.

Attached Link: http://www.impworks.co.uk/vue/vue-python-scripts/mass-convert/

Thansk to impworks

Quote - Yes, from all I read, collada seems like the future.

Maybe :-)

When I export from DAZ and import into Vue 7.5 there's always some textures missing, and the well know hair/eyelashes problem.

by the way I've had a lot of obthe rimporting my huge ship models into Vue as a single obj
so I split it and import in pieces, don't touch anything until all imported, then group and save as vob, THEN work on moving it, mateirals etc :)

I suspect as said before, Vue will choke hard on models that have too many N-gons and quads.

I made a model in Hexagon and exported it as OBJ into Vue and Vue took it but didn't display it in the Main camera view even if I selected it in the object list.

So I exported the model again (this time with "export normals" un-checked) and the model displayed in Vue.  I then went to the object editor and un-checked "double-sided" so that the normals I had inverted in Hexagon would display inverted in Vue also.

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2758989

Mazak