Re: [Plib-users] Does anyone use .ssg files?

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

Wolfram Kuss wrote:
> 
> Does anyone use files in plib's own ".ssg"-format?

Yes - but not for long-term model storage.

I've always regarded it as a convenient format that'll load
quickly and contain all possible features you might need - thus
keeping the game code 'clean'.

I re-convert my models from AC3D to SSG using an offline tool whenever
I need to.

Hence, I don't (personally) care about changes and incompatibilities
between SSG versions.

That's not to say that we shouldn't strive to keep the format stable -
but remember that when I wrote the SSG file format, there were no
modellers that supported SSG.  That meant that you'd *ALWAYS* have
to convert some other file format into SSG.

With the advent of PPE and the ability to model natively in SSG, that
situation has to change.

> The reason I ask is that we are slowly nearing us to the 1.4.0 release
> and that we have to decide what to do about compatibility regarding
> these files.
> 
> One possibility is:
> Have a new file version. 1.4 would be able to read 1.2 and 1.4 files,
> 1.2 could only read its own. Files written with other versions (for
> example, 1.3.x or versions from cvs) would be invalid.
> Like I said, this is only one possibility.

Yes - but it seems reasonable.

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