Hi, I'm fairly new to 3d programming and am looking to gain a a little more experience with JOGL. Right now I'm trying to write a simple (*really* simple) .3ds loader. My goal for now is mainly to get simple meshes (nothing other than the vertex coordinates) from blender into my programs and .3ds seems to be a good choice as I want to build on this later. So far I have found there to be very little in terms of documentation on this subject so I'm looking some sort of starting point. I made a .3ds file out of 'the cube' and loaded it into a hex editor but I cant seem to find the tag for the vertex list (41 41). I'm also unsure of the handling of the semi-reverse-binary that the files are said to be written in. Thanks, Pat

There's tons of documentation out there on the 3DS format.

The Labs
3DS spec
spacesimulator.net
GPWiki
faydoc.tripod.com

This is all within the first 10 results of a Google search for "3DS file format."