Re: [Assimp-discussions] Assimp - .NET Wrapper

[Adam D. <ada...@de...>]

Assimp .NET Wrapper

 

STATUS:

-          Swig generated wrapper, rather than Managed C++, so it could work
cross platform via Mono

-          Basic classes aiNode, aiMesh, aiMaterial, etc. implemented

-          Missing classes aiFile, aiFileIO, aiLogStream, IOStream,
IOSystem, Logger, NullLogger

-          Managed wrappers for std::vector<T> to access underlying
collections

-          Visual Studio 2008 project files - builds 32 bit DLLs even on 64
bit Windows

-          Links in static assimp .lib with swig generated code to produce
new native .dll + managed .dll which accesses native .dll.

-          Managed Direct X/C# simple viewer app (MDX can only be 32 bit),
no animation

-          .NET properties for aiGetMaterialXXXX(.) functions such as
AI_MATKEY_COLOR_DIFFUSE

-          README.txt to explain the minimum steps to build the library and
the viewer

 

TODO:

-          Fill in missing classes aiFile, etc.

-          Strip prefix from all generated enums, e.g.
aiTextureType.aiTextureType_DIFFUSE should be aiTextureType.DIFFUSE

-          Complete aiMaterial properties, only a common subset currently

-          64 bit version of library

-          Port Viewer to SlimDX and/or OpenTK so it can support 64 bit
(possibly start again and port C++ viewer). How about WPF?

-          Unit tests + viewer testing

-          Support for 0 or more than 1 texture in viewer + other material
properties and animation

-          Installer for redistribution (integrate to main Windows installer
or a separate one)

-          Performance testing - suspect that class/collection wrappers may
be slow. Better to copy data to .NET arrays/structures, e.g. aiVector3D[]?

 

Hope this helps,

 

Adam

 

From: Matthias Gubisch [mailto:mat...@gm...] 
Sent: 28 July 2010 11:40
To: 'Adam Davidson'
Cc: ass...@li...
Subject: AW: AW: Assimp - .NET Wrapper

 

Hi Adam

 

Thanks for your fixes, I don't know where the Problem was but now it works
on my Machine.

 

Can you give me a short Update what you've done so far and what are the main
points atm?

 

Greets

Matthias

 

PS: Please add Assimp-Mailing List to CC or write directly to Assimp-ML
because may other people are interested in the C#-Bindings of Assimp too.