Re: [Plib-devel] PLIB developers needed.

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

Wolfram Kuss wrote:

> What things need to be done?

Well, just incorporating contributions and chasing other leads
could be a fulltime job.

> However, if I would be become a plib-developer,
> prettypoly would stay my main project.

Sure - and I'm hoping that if I can offload some of the PLIB
work, my PPE efforts could be larger.
 
> BTW, it *MIGHT* be that I have to rewrite the
> *.x loaders/writers in Mdi_edit in some time, then I would
> probably write some for plib at the same time.
> *.x is Micro$ofts Direct3D file format, mainly used for games.

More loaders will *always* be welcome.

And wearing PPE hat for a moment - some WRITERS would be v.welcome
too!  Writers are generally MUCH easier to write than loaders...a
VRML exporter would be cool for PPE.

A *very* simple example program that coupled all of our loaders to
all of our writers with a simple command-line or pointsy-clicksy
file selector would result in a file conversion utility that would
be a service to mankind.

> Dave (or anybody else), if I want to see how a loader/writer works,
> which should I look at? It should be farily easy to understand,
> fairly complete and the format should be fairly straight-forward
> (list of vertices/list of faces).

Probably the AC3D loader then - it's an ASCII input format - which makes
life easier.

> Its absolutely not clear I would do this, but if then I will probably
> only implement the ASCII-*.x-format, not the binary one.

Well, I've added you to the developer's list...let me know if you want
me to take you off again!

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