Re: [Plib-devel] Model Formats

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

Dave McClurg wrote:

> If someone has a specific use for an improved OBJ or ASE loader,
> please let me know.  The added motivation always helps.

Annoyingly, the current need is to be able to import models built
in Blender - this would be very useful for the guys who want to
build models for TuxKart under Linux.

The snag appears to be (although I'm not a blender expert) that it
only exports DXF (no texture - yuk!) and VRML (not supported under
PLIB - ack!) 

Another *cool* approach might be to write a blender plugin to
link in PLIB and hence read/write SSG or any of the other formats
we support.  Seems like the Blender guys should be interested
in that since they are short of file formats and we could get
them a bunch in very short order.

Does anyone out there know how to write blender plugins?

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