I spent this evening building the OSG COLLADA plugin and starting to test it. I also stumbled across the multiple CVS modules, but a quick glance at the dates showed that 'osgdb_dae14' was the latest and greatest. There were some other hoops to jump through (digging up libxml2, iconv etc. for Win32) and a tiny one-line fix in the code, but the COLLADA plugin did build and run nicely.
My reason for doing this is... A bit of a long story :) Basically, 3DSMAX has just been too much grief over the years. It's terribly expensive, cracked versions are unreliable, OSGExp is hard to build and not well supported, and materials rarely look the same in MAX and OSG. Hence, i'm evaluating the 'Blender' free modeller. (http://www.blender.org/) My first impression is that Blender is great! Besides the goodness of being cross-platform and open-source, it's a downright pleasant and easy modelling tool. So, the challenge becomes, how does one get models from Blender to OSG? My initial testing results are here: http://vterrain.org/Implementation/ArtPath/blender-osg.html Executive summary: COLLADA looks promising, but not quite there yet. Good old Wavefront OBJ worked the best of all possible formats. -Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Osfield > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:32 PM > To: osg users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] COLLADA plugin for OSG on SourceForge > > > As for the COLLADA plugin, the SourceForge CVS has separate > > projects for each of several COLLADA revisions; what you have > > is the really really oldest version. > > Only the "osgdb_dae14" for COLLADA v1.4.x is relevent these days, > > which may be found at > > http://osgdb-collada.cvs.sourceforge.net/osgdb-collada/osgdb_dae14/ > > (SF doesn't like projects to delete files, but we probably should > > remove those old versions to avoid confusion) > > [..] > Anyway, on COLLADA front, thanks for the pointer to the latest plugin. > We really need to document this. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
