Do I have to write my own file loader?

system · October 24, 2003, 8:00am

I am beginning to use OpenGL. It seems that
I need to write my own code to load a model
from a file. As there are many types of files, does it mean I need to write a loader
for each type of model?

system · October 24, 2003, 8:05am

Have you bothered to try to search this forum first?

JanHH · October 24, 2003, 8:07am

write an .obj loader, it’s fun

Jan

system · October 24, 2003, 8:17am

I did a search. I just didn’t want to
believe it :-)! I have searched on google
and found quite a few loaders for different
models. I wonder why some of them didn’t make
into OpenGL, or glut? VTK toolkit does.

Originally posted by TinTin:
Have you bothered to try to search this forum first?

system · October 24, 2003, 8:42am

I doubt you have searched this forum and read some of the threads. Your question is a typical beginner question and has been answered many times in the past.