Niles opened this issue on Dec 20, 2009 · 23 posts
FrankT posted Mon, 21 December 2009 at 8:17 PM
3DS has some serious drawbacks as a format. See here for information and has a limit on the number of polygons per object (65535 if I recall correctly)
You could hardly call .3DS the "most widely used object format," I'd suggest that honour goes to the .obj format