Re: [Plib-devel] Importers/Exporters

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Per Liedman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Wolfram Kuss wrote:
> > I tested some importers and exporters.
> > I used three files with 36000, 18000 and 550 polygons.
> > *.3ds loader: crashes with the two larger files, loads the small file
> > ok. The colours of the small object seemed wrong.
> 
> It seems that I have made an assumption about the ordering of the chunks in the
> 3ds file that not all 3ds models follow, which makes Wolframs models crash
> the loader - the texture coords get defined after the ssgVtxTable, so I'm
> copying from a NULL-pointer :-(
> 
> Unfortunately, this will take some effort to reorganize, so I'm not really sure
> when I get it ready (I just have one hour or two to work on it each day), but
> hopefully within a week. That might be too late for the 1.2 release, though.

I think the 3DS loader is sufficiently important that we should wait for these
fixes before declaring 1.2 ready.   The alternatives are either:

* Release a 1.2 with a known-broken 3DS loader (that doesn't fit my
  definition of a 'stable' release).

* Remove the 3DS loader from the 1.2 release - and make loading 3DS
  files be a 1.3 feature - that won't be stable until 1.4.

I don't think either of those are acceptable...so we should hold up 1.2.

It would be possible to launch 1.3's CVS area while we are waiting for
1.1 to metamorphose into 1.2...Mesa did that for example.

I'm reluctant to do that though...it causes a LOT of confusion.

The reason I'd hoped to get 1.2 done soon was to get it onto SuSE 6.4 - but
I fear that we are already too late for that.

> Paolo Leoncini has also made some modifications to the loader that I think
> should be included - at least some improvement over the current loader (better
> texture support). Perhaps Paolo could send the files directly to Steve for
> incorporation?

OK - would it be better just to grant CVS access to people working this
stuff though.  I'm so busy right now - that it'll be a while before I
can catch up with some of these new changes.

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