ddd compressed?

[mikiex]

Is ddd really compressed? since the resulting conversion of a 2k 3ds file = 64kb ddd file ??

[rocko]

I noticed that too

[Kitty Hello]

Is there animations in the 3ds file? .ddd stores the vertex positions for each frame. That highly compatible to any other format and it's very fast to draw. But animated files might be a bit bigger than other formats.

[mikiex]

Ahh, you see when you load up 3dsmax it defaults to 100 frame length.
Even though there are no keyframes/animation your converter still converts based on that
length. (It probably wouldn't be hard to check verts do not move at all - or give option to only take the first frame)

I assume ddd currently only supports vertex animations?

3dsmax the minimum animation length is 2 frames -
this means you will always get a file twice the size it needs to be.

Of course you could use another format that has more control over exporting,
maybe something that outputs .X and asks how many frames you are exporting.

[Kitty Hello]

I'll add an option: Singleframe to the converter. Thank you. I don't have 3Ds Max