FGD ML <fg...@pomf.net> wrote:
> As for flight format I've never even seen one, where has that been used out
> of interest?
I think Tim refers to OpenFlight - probably the de-facto standard, at
least a _highly_ popular format for commercial, scientific and military
simulation platforms.
The nice thing about OpenFlight is its ability to put the entire
geometry into a single file (even though this approach seems to be a
bit uncommon), including all the required animations plus LOD ! On the
other hand the format also allows for a hierarchical structure, thus
referencing further OpenFlight files from their respective 'parent'
without external glue logic.
The textures are stored separately .... at least to my knowledge.
The not so nice thing about OpenFlight's animation is the simplistic
way it's supposed to work. Nevertheless the OpenFlight format would
make an excellent choice for storing geometries, probably leaving the
animation stuff to FlightGear's native XML format.
According to my experience the load time for complex OpenFlight
databases into OSG leaves still some room for improvement .... but I'm
certain this will develop over the time.
Cheers,
Martin.
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