I have taken a deep look to OPAL, it was very appealing but after a while I have realized that we shouldn't use this library. For instance, It seems that its development has stalled: http://ox.slug.louisville.edu/~o0lozi01/opal/viewtopic.php?t=345
Also, they defined their own file format. Now I'm thinking more and more on using COLLADA. This file format seems to fit almost perfectly (the robotics part will always be Gazebo-specific). COLLADA file format has: -An under development export plugin for Blender http://colladablender.illusoft.com -Support from the Bullets physics library that eventually will be merged with ODE. http://www.continuousphysics.com/mediawiki-1.5.8/index.php?title=Features -Support in Ogre3D http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13554 -Several libraries to parse it easily (look for collada-dom and fcollada) -Nice future, it is been developed by the same team in charge of the future of OpenGL. No doubt will become a widely used standard. I strongly think that we must use COLLADA + extension for Gazebo specific information. This way we have support from the physics, the graphics and the add-on of Blender as GUI for models and even worlds. The models done by Blender should be later modified by a Gazebo-specific and very simple GUI. -- Jordi Polo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Playerstage-gazebo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/playerstage-gazebo
