[Meshlab-devel] questions

[skunkwerk <sku...@gm...>]

I had some questions about meshlab:

1)  There seems to be a renderman plugin in the source tree, but I have to
remove it as it never compiles... what's the status of the plugin - is there
anyone working on it?

2)  The support for importing .dxf files - the only gpl library to do this
seems to be coin3d's dime
(http://www.coin3d.org/lib/dime).<http://www.coin3d.org/lib/dime%29.>..
is anyone working on this?

3)  I've noticed that when I try opening huge (~20 MB collada) files, it
takes about five minutes... but the actual filters are still quite fast.
any tips on speeding up the time to load large files?  multithreading?
would running on a multi-core CPU be likely to speed this up, or is it just
dependent on the speed of the hard disk and pipeline?

4)  as far as a texture atlas generator goes, should I use the opengl
library directly, or go through QtOpenGL, like some of the things in meshlab
do?  qt's library might not provide everything i need, but at this point i
don't know enough about opengl to be sure.  when textures are loaded by an
importer, where are they stored?

thanks,
imran