Hi John, I remember someone asking a similar question a while back and the suggestion was to use to the particle system designer that delta3d supplies:
http://www.delta3d.org/filemgmt_data/files/Particle%20system.pdf I'm afraid I've not used it, so I can't say how good it is but I hope that helps a little. Kim. 2009/8/25 John Vidar Larring <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > This might be a bit of topic, but hopefully of interest to the osg-users > list. > > Here's what we'd like to do: we'd like to contract a graphics designer to > model/design several particle systems (or particle symbols, as we call them > since they will be "self contained" and local particle systems not > interacting with the world around them) to be used in our OSG based > application. > > My initial thought was to have the graphics artist create the particle > system in a 3D content creation program (e.g. Maya or 3DS Max), export the > particle system to Collada, and import the collada model in OSG. In theory > this seems to be good approach as it would allow us to contract any graphics > designer with decent 3D design skills. > > While this type of production line works fairly well for solid models, it > fails miserably for particle systems at several levels*. My question to the > community is this: Are there any good tools out there for graphics designers > to create particle systems intended for use in OSG? (googled, but at no > avail.) Any thoughts or advice? > > Best regards, > John > > (*) The ColladaMaya plugin does not export particle system settings through > the fcollada extension, but samples the particle systems. However, the > osg-collada plugin does not support the sampling syntax. Furthermore, even > if the export had been successful I suspect that we still would have to add > fcollada extension support to osg-collada plugin...:( > > -- > This email was Anti Virus checked by Astaro Security Gateway. > http://www.astaro.com > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
