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From: Jo180@mdx.ac.uk (John Owens)
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Subject: 3D studio files
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 14:19:58 GMT
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I am a beginner to the Yaroze but I have come from an Opengl
background so I have a few questions.

1. Are you forced to use TMD files or can you use .3ds files instead
and write your own reader and viewer, this goes for using other image
formats as well instead of TIMs.

2. On this same point does the full playstion development kit have
this restriction.

3. I see that the yaroze doesn't have a FPU and it has to do all
floating point calculations in software so when it comes to matrix and
vector functions do people use fixed point maths or do they use
floating point and let the library take care of the conversion as I
see that the library has Vector and matrix funcs.

Thanks for any help you can be