A while back I discovered that ATI had developed their own Collada reader that could parse quite a few of the scenes exported to Collada from RenderMonkey... I asked them about the source, and now it is available.
Without a thorough comparison, I cant say this loader is "better" than the existing collada loader, but it is sure a lot better when it comes to parsing render passes, GLShaders etc... Would someone be interested in looking into how this can be used in in the core osg? I would hate if this excellent code would be developed in parallel with the trunk in osg. It sure is a great step towards a nice pipeline for creating high-quality rendering in OSG. Looks like it is released under: *SCEA Shared Source License 1.0 * Cheers, /Anders ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Selley, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:42 PM Subject: RE: COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer To: Anders Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Anders, The Open Source code is now available in the download ( http://ati.amd.com/developer/rendermonkey/downloads.html). Let me know if you have any questions. Gordon ------------------------------ *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Anders Backman *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:06 AM *To:* Ginsburg, Daniel *Cc:* Support, GPU Tools; Selley, Gordon *Subject:* Re: COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer Do you have any time-plan for this? I do have a few projects that would make use of this feature.... /A On Jan 22, 2008 2:38 PM, Ginsburg, Daniel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Anders, Thank you for your question and I am glad to hear that you found the COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer useful. We are planning to release the source code as well, but were not quite ready to do so when we released the viewer. We agree that it's important to share the code back with the OSG community and have every intention of doing so. Added Gordon Selley, the author of the viewer, who can answer any further questions. Thanks. -- Dan ------------------------------ *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Anders Backman *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:34 AM *To:* Support, GPU Tools *Subject:* COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer Hi. I recently found the COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer<http://www2.ati.com/developer/rendermonkey/files/osg1.2_collada_gl_fx_viewer.zip>at amd:s website which I downloaded and tried, works fairly good. What Im curious about is why its not released to the OpenSceneGraph community? It seems that its far better in handling shaders/renderpasses/techniques than the reader in the current OpenSceneGraph branch. Would it be of interest for AMD to release it back to osg? I have been using osg for 10 years, and its a good professional community that really would make use of a better high-quality pipline. Up until today, I haven't seen this good support for high-quality rendering through collada into osg. I read that Mike Weiblen wrote the first version of collada reader, which is almost true, the very first was written by Daniel Sjölie here at Umeå University and it was then released to the OpenSceneGraph community, then Mike rewrote it, and now its been rewritten again as far as I know... So I guess then your code is a "branch" of the work of Mike? Cheers, Anders Backman -- ________________________________________________________________ Anders Backman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HPC2N/VRlab Phone: +46 (0)90-786 9936 Umea university Cellular: +46 (0)70-392 64 67 S-901 87 UMEA SWEDEN Fax: +46 90-786 6126 http://www.cs.umu.se/~andersb<http://www.cs.umu.se/%7Eandersb> -- ________________________________________________________________ Anders Backman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HPC2N/VRlab Phone: +46 (0)90-786 9936 Umea university Cellular: +46 (0)70-392 64 67 S-901 87 UMEA SWEDEN Fax: +46 90-786 6126 http://www.cs.umu.se/~andersb<http://www.cs.umu.se/%7Eandersb> -- ________________________________________________________________ Anders Backman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HPC2N/VRlab Phone: +46 (0)90-786 9936 Umea university Cellular: +46 (0)70-392 64 67 S-901 87 UMEA SWEDEN Fax: +46 90-786 6126 http://www.cs.umu.se/~andersb
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