Thank you Carsten, We will have a look at collada-dom v2.3 (collada v1.4), which seems the most used.
I will let you know if there are some progress in the student's work. Best Regards, Josef On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Carsten Neumann <carsten_neum...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello Josef, > > On 04/21/2011 05:37 AM, Josef Grunig wrote: >> I was looking at the Collada support in OpenSG1.8 because we are >> interested in read/write operations from/into the DAE format. >> I see that OpenSG2.0 partially handles the read of this format. What >> about OpenSG1.8? It seems there is no support at all. Am I right? > > yes, the collada loader was only written for 2.0. > >> Am I missing some contribution? > > I'm not aware of one, but perhaps someone has one :) > >> If nobody already planned to back-port the code from 2.0, we volunteer >> for doing that and add some basic write support. >> What you think about? Any suggestion, hints? > > IMHO the trickiest part about collada is to get the instantiation of the > various objects right. This is especially hard if you try not to deep > copy everything and also because in Collada nodes can be instantiated > (giving a node effectively multiple parents) which does not map very > well to OpenSG. > collada-dom (sourceforge.net/projects/collada-dom), the dom library the > 2.0 loader is built on, seemed to be dormant for a while, but recently > had a new release (not tried it yet). There is also openCollada > (opencollada.org), which seems a bit more active, but has a different > API, so using that would result in a completely different loader ;) > > Cheers, > Carsten > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise > Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been > demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE > containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain > from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails > _______________________________________________ > Opensg-users mailing list > Opensg-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users > -- Josef ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list Opensg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
