Can you verify this chunk address (3ds)?

[Ace_Man]

Hi,
I am assuming that the chunk address of 4110 is the vertex list in a 3ds file..Can any of you verify that this is true for a 3ds version 4 (not 3 or 3.1) file?

If I have this in my code

ace = fgetc(bin3DS);
ace = (ace | (fgetc(bin3DS) << 8));

if(ace == 0x4110)
cout << "Hooray! found the vertex list";

From all the documentation I've read, the next byte is the total number of vertices of the model. If I read the next byte I never get a corect answer...Perhaps I'm missing something simple here...

Sorry, I know this is more of a C question, but this is all for getting my models in OpenGL. I've written an ASE loader and I wanted to do it a harder way like this..


Thanks

[BwB]

Well, I guess I cant _veryify_ it, but it would be incredibly stupid for Discreet to change the 3ds format. And your only reading a byte for the number of vertices? This would only allow a maximum of 255 verts. You probably need to read a DWORD (4 bytes).

Take a look at this:
http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Developer/DevRel.nsf/3DToolsFrame?OpenPage

nVidia provides a 3ds file reader. Maybe you can extract the information you need.