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What is the best practice to add support of loading models from multiple file formats (.obj, .3ds ...)? What class hierarchy should I use (now I have Mesh class( containing vertex, data ) and MeshLoader class ( doing nothing right now ))? I do not want to write loaders by myself, so than I have to copy loaded data into my structure. Possibly you can show some articles explaining it especially Mesh class organization. Thanks in advance.

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Have you looked at Assimp? assimp.sourceforge.net – Jimmy Feb 3 '12 at 17:32
No, I've not. Thanks for good link. – bobenko Feb 3 '12 at 17:36

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The format that you load into your game engine should be specific to your game engine, and by specific I mean optimized for your target performance. What you will likely want to do, if you want to support multiple model formats, is to have a processing tool that will convert the different formats into the one for your engine. This is the start of an asset pipeline :)

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This, but please don't force them to precompile everything ala XNA :/ – ClassicThunder Feb 3 '12 at 17:33
@ClassicThunder Very true, especially if you want to target modding and such as I hear this is a right pain to accomplish with out visual studio to compile ala XNA. – James Feb 3 '12 at 17:51
You should hear the Terraria modding guys whine :) – ClassicThunder Feb 3 '12 at 17:55
@ClassicThunder That was actually the people I was thinking of when I was writing that ;) – James Feb 3 '12 at 17:57

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