#3DS File Format
I don't know if my last effort got through. We are making 3D models of
forested mountains for forestry visualization purposes, i.e. what
will various kinds of cut-blocks and roads etc look like. To do this,
we have to plant the 3D hills with hundreds of thousands of 3D trees
of different species, sizes, and so forth, according to GIS maps of
where everything grows. The trees are made of intersecting faces
mapped with appropriate styles of branches etc. All this is done by a
program which we wrote in C. The tree files are created as ASC files
which we then feed to 3DStudio. The files are really big, at least 250
MB, and we would save a lot of space, hassle and time if we could
make 3DS files instead. Does anyone know the format?? Any other
ideas?