Re: [gl4java-usergroup] Re : The new project...

[Pepijn V. E. <pep...@lu...>]

A meeting is fine for me. Same time as last week?

Pepijn

On dinsdag, mei 6, 2003, at 21:31 Europe/Brussels, Tobias L. George 
wrote:

> Are we having another meeting tomorrow, or should I deliver the new 
> build environment to Pepijn offline ? ? ?
>
> Or both ? ? ?
>
>                                                                -TOBY
>
> Kevin Nardi wrote:
>
>> I disagree.  I don't want to have to use your (or any specific) 
>> engine just
>> to get some useful utility functions for file loading.  Parsing a 3D 
>> Studio
>> file is difficult on your own, and if someone could write a method to 
>> parse
>> it and stick it in a wrapper class (like 3DStudioFileWrapper) with 
>> get()
>> methods for all the important data, that would be a HUGE help.  That 
>> doesn't
>> have anything to do with storing polygons, etc.  It just exposes the 
>> file's
>> important information for reading in a much more object-oriented 
>> fashion.
>> This of course could be done with many major file formats.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -nano
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <aco...@mi...>
>> To: <gl4...@li...>
>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 5:08 AM
>> Subject: [gl4java-usergroup] Re : Then new project...
>>
>>
>>
>>> Things I would like to see also.
>>>
>>> 1) parsers for many standard 3d file formats.  Maybe JavaCC or one of
>>>
>> the
>>
>>> other java based lex/yacc's
>>>
>>
>> My opinion is that it is not the role of an OpenGL Binding to handle
>> file loading, because it requires to set up specific data structures 
>> to
>> handle the storage of polygons, to manage matrix transformations of
>> objects, textures and cameras (I assume if you want to load an object,
>> you also want to rotate around and examinate it) : this the purpose 
>> of a
>> 3D engine and it goes beyond the scope of gl4java.
>>
>> This is why I have started the OpenMind project : it is a 3D engine on
>> top of gl4java. It actually features most of the functionalities you 
>> are
>> looking for and the code is also open source. It currently loads 
>> 3dsMAX
>> ASE files, and soon parsers will be developed to handle .md3, .3ds and
>> .obj files. We always need open source developers I want to code a
>> parser :)
>>
>> So if you want to give it a look : http://www.mind2machine.com
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alban
>>
>>
>>
>>
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