Away3d: New 3DS importer
3d Flash February 18th, 2008
Recent updates to the trunk build of Away3d include a revamped 3DS file importer. Enhancements include:
- Multiple mesh support
- Automatic texture loading
- Individual material support for faces
The update is based on AS3 code supplied by Masi Woermann, to whom i now owe a beer 
. You can download the source for the demo above by using the right-click ‘View Source’ option on the background of the swf
Plans to include auto texture loading for other formats that allow it are in the pipeline…
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
New importer is realy good and useful, thank you very much!
February 27th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Any idea how to export the textures from a 3ds file into one or more images.
-Raman
February 28th, 2008 at 7:43 am
@Raman -
i’m not a 3d modeller so i’m afraid i wouldn’t know the details, but i imagine the configuration of textures would be available somewhere in the export options
- Rob
May 8th, 2008 at 7:22 am
My original max models refer to named mentalray materials, so there are no references to my jpegs in the 3ds file. The material names are there though. How do I manually map these to away3d materials?