Hey guys,

I'm having a really bizarre issue.

I wrote some code to parse/read an OBJ file and I've figured out how to make it work, but I don't know why it works like this.

Here's a couple of lines in the OBJ file:

1. v 0.500000 -0.500000 -0.500000
2. vt 0.375000 0.000000

When I parse through the first line, the following code will work:
sscanf(buffer, "v %lf %lf %lf", &x, &y, &z);

This will NOT (why??):
sscanf(buffer, "v %f %f %f", &x, &y, &z);

Then...with the second line the following works:
sscanf(buffer, "vt %f %f", &u, &v);

But this will NOT:
sscanf(buffer, "vt %lf %lf", &u, &v);

I cannot figure out why there is such a discrepency? I just have to read a float, but in the first example, I *need* to make it a double or sscanf returns 0. And in the second example, it needs me to make it a float or it returns 0. Totally confused.....

Could someone help shed light on this?

I'm developing on VS2010, building for Win32.

Thanks,

Leonard

Yes, I checked the buffer chars on debug and it's coming in as expected. This one has me completely stumped....

I'm running VS2010 on a x64 machine --would that have an issue? (I wouldn't think so as the active target is Win32)....

Can you show the whole section of code that's giving you the problem?

Oh my gosh guys I feel like such a dummie......

I had optimized my code by going in and changing all the double declarations to float, but had missed the class definition for my vertices/vectors:

class Vector3{public:	float x, y, z;   //I had this as double instead of float....	Vector3(void);	Vector3(float nx, float ny, float nz);	~Vector3(void);};

//The final code block

			//Vertex			case 'v':				switch(buffer[1]){				case ' ':					//Create new vertex					this->vertices[current_vertex] = new Vector3();					sscanf(buffer, "v %f %f %f", &this->vertices[current_vertex]->x, &this->vertices[current_vertex]->y, &this->vertices[current_vertex]->z);					current_vertex++;					break;				case 'n':					//Create new vertex normal					this->normals[current_normal] = new Vector3();					sscanf(buffer, "vn %f %f %f", &this->normals[current_normal]->x, &this->normals[current_normal]->y, &this->normals[current_normal]->z);					current_normal++;					break;				case 't':					//Create new UV					this->uvs[current_uv] = new Uv();					sscanf(buffer, "vt %f %f", &this->uvs[current_uv]->u, &this->uvs[current_uv]->v);					current_uv++;					break;				}				break;

Argh. Now it all works as expected. I had been staring at this for too long and I just spotted it this morning.

Sorry...my bad!

Leonard