John,
Wow, I guess I'm talking to the right man! I found your website with your
Inspector3DS/Loader3DS 2.00 product at:
http://mail.starfireresearch.com/services/java3d/inspector3ds.html
Your effort with the Java 3D Community MMORPG Project at
http://mail.starfireresearch.com/services/java3d/mmorpg/mmorpg.html also
looks very interesting. Still looking for developers?
The most recent specs on Caligari's COB format can be found at:
http://www.caligari.com/products/tsx/tsx_dev98.htm#SDK
It looks like there are different ones depending on the version of
trueSpace. I have 4.3, the most recent release is 5.0.
Thanks for your offer to support Inspector3DS/Loader3DS. Since trueSpace
can save to this format, I'll definitely give that a shot. I am glad that
there is something more recent *and supported* out there for me to use with
trueSpace! Once I have some success with it (shouldn't take me that long),
I'll definitely send my donation of $20 (I know you are only asking $10 but
to me it's worth it!).
Sergei
Gorham, ME USA
-----Original Message-----
From: John Wright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D and trueSpace by Caligari
Sergei,
All you should need is documentation for the COB format. The only
source I have right now is "3D Graphics File Formats" by Keith Rule.
Since COB files could be an any of a variety of forms you'd need to test
which format you were reading and read it appropriately.
What I would recommend though would be to just export to 3DS and use the
3DS loader that we've written. You can ask a few of the others, but in
my opinion I provide good support for it. Currently I'm developing a
"pro" version.
- John Wright
Starfire Research
Sergei Haramundanis wrote:
>
> Hello John,
>
> Thanks for the prompt response. If writing my own COB file loader is
> something I could learn, I could do it myself as I do have quite a number
> of years experience with C++ and Java, but don't know that much about
> writing conversion programs/loaders for different file formats.
>
> To answer your questions:
>
> 1. support for both ASCII and binary file format versions would be best,
> but I would like to know if the endian issues are only at compile-time or
> if they are at run-time as well...i.e. if I have a content loader, could
I
> load it in and serialize it so that I could distribute a platform
> independent implementation?
>
> 2. trueSpace can save in the following file formats:
> *.cob (Caligari Object)
> *.asc (3D Studio ASII)
> *.3ds (3D Studio binary)
> *.x (DirectX)
> *.dxf (Autocad)
> *.can (Object Animation)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 7:49 AM
> To: Sergei Haramundanis
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D and trueSpace by Caligari
>
> Sergei,
>
> We could write a COB file loader but it would cost you in the thousands
> to have it developed for you. Or you could write your own.
>
> Are you looking to support both ASCII and binary file format versions of
> COB? Are you aware that the binary format is different depending on the
> machine that wrote the file? (both little endian and big endian storage
> of numbers)
>
> Perhaps a cheaper solution would be to convert to a different format for
> loading to Java 3D? What other formats can TrueSpace directly save?
>
> - John Wright
> Starfire Research
>
> Sergei Haramundanis wrote:
> >
> > I am currently developing some software with Java3D and want to use
> > trueSpace4.3 by Caligari for the content, but I need a content loader
> that
> > supports COB. The only one I know out there is NCSA Portfolio
> > http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~srp/Java3D/portfolio/
> >
> > However, this is not only a beta version it is unsupported. Are there
> > others out there that are supported? I would be willing to pay for one
if
> > the price is reasonable. Any information is appreciated!
> >
> >
>
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