New Import Library

In the last weeks I was evaluating and testing a new way for importing different 3D file formats. The reason for this that I found the Open Asset Import Library (short name ASSIMP) on Sourceforge. This library reads a whole bunch of different file formats and provides them in via a uniform interface. Supported formats are among others 3ds, obj, ase, dxf, lwo, mdl, md2, md3, md5. (see their website for a full list of support file formats: http://assimp.sourceforge.net/).

The great advantage of the uniform interface is that after loading the file the Y.A.P.R.M. side of the code is always the same. So in very short time I was able to use this lib. You can find it already in the cvs. However there are some issues with endianess. Currently it works only in little endian machines (e.g., i386). The PPC users have to be a little more patient I'll try to fix this in the next weeks. I let you no about it.

Enjoy,
Alil