[Assimp-discussions] PyAssimp improvements

[Guillaume B. <gui...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

I am currently using the assimp wrapping for python and I was wondering 
if I could add two tiny improvements to it:

1) I tried to use the 3d_viewer.py and the bad surprise for me was that 
the shader (surprisingly) couldn’t compile on my mac because the 
required shader version is v1.30. I had to adapt the shaders for version 
1.20 and then it worked. Therefore, I was wondering if I could either 
change the shaders of 3d_viewer.py to v1.20 or add a way to compile 
shader v1.20 if the v1.30 didn’t succeed ?

2) Concerning the pyassimp installation, I was glad to see that there 
was a setup.py file, which is great ! But unfortunately, this setup 
doesn’t install the libassimp.dylib (or .so/.dll) binary and as I didn’t 
install assimp on my computer (ie. I didn’t run “make install”), I 
couldn’t import the pyassimp package. Of course, most of the time, 
people install assimp libraries before using the python wrapping but on 
my team we are (unfortunately) using different versions of assimp in our 
projects and we don’t want to mix them in the /usr/local/lib directory. 
When installing the pyassimp package, I think it could be better to 
install both the python api + the library inside the site-package. This 
way it could also be installed in a virtual environment and be isolated 
from other versions of pyassimp if you want to.

I am currently trying to implement these improvements but if you think 
my request is not relevant or that I missed a way for compiling the 
shaders in 3d_viewer or a way to install libassimp in a virtual 
environment, feel free to warn me.

Moreover, I was wondering if there was a documentation on “how to 
contribute”, does anyone know if there is one ?

Best regards,
Guillaume