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[PyOpenGL-Users] Python 3D object loader

[Simon W. <sim...@gm...>]

Hi Chaps,

I'm building a simple game, and need some way to get models from my
designer team mate and display them in OpenGL, preferably using a
display list.

I've looked at a bunch of libraries from vrplumber.com, but none of
the 3ds loader modules seem to work with the latest
Numeric/Python/PyOpenGL combination.

What do people on this list generally use for loading and displaying models=
?

Sw.

Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Python 3D object loader

[Dave P. <de...@bu...>]

If you can export to OBJ, I have a basic loader/renderer that I wrote 
as an example for my students.  OBJ isn't the best format for optimized 
rendering, of course, but it's simple and many programs can export it.
The code is available at
  http://resumbrae.com/ub/dms423_f04/20/OBJFile.py
  http://resumbrae.com/ub/dms423_f04/20/Texture2D.py


On Wed, 18 May 2005, Simon Wittber wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
> 
> I'm building a simple game, and need some way to get models from my
> designer team mate and display them in OpenGL, preferably using a
> display list.
> 
> I've looked at a bunch of libraries from vrplumber.com, but none of
> the 3ds loader modules seem to work with the latest
> Numeric/Python/PyOpenGL combination.
> 
> What do people on this list generally use for loading and displaying models?
> 
> Sw.

--
Dave Pape                                                 Assistant Professor
http://resumbrae.com/                      Media Study, University at Buffalo

Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Python 3D object loader

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

There's a Python wrapper for lib3ds as part of the Vision Egg: 
http://visionegg.org

I don't think it's complete, but it's a start.  I'd be happy to 
incorporate patches/improvements/whatever.

Cheers!
Andrew

Simon Wittber wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
> 
> I'm building a simple game, and need some way to get models from my
> designer team mate and display them in OpenGL, preferably using a
> display list.
> 
> I've looked at a bunch of libraries from vrplumber.com, but none of
> the 3ds loader modules seem to work with the latest
> Numeric/Python/PyOpenGL combination.
> 
> What do people on this list generally use for loading and displaying models?
> 
> Sw.
> 
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[PyOpenGL-Users] Re: Python 3D object loader

[Simon W. <sim...@gm...>]

On 5/18/05, Simon Wittber <sim...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
>
> I'm building a simple game, and need some way to get models from my
> designer team mate and display them in OpenGL, preferably using a
> display list.

I've since implemented a Quake II model loader (md2) and renderer
which uses glDrawArrays. The code is ugly and probably horribly
inefficient at the moment, but I thought I would share my efforts
anyway :-)

The loader:
http://metaplay.dyndns.org:82/svn/SiGL/SiGL/md2.py

The renderer and animator:
http://metaplay.dyndns.org:82/svn/SiGL/SiGL/model.py

The code is fairly tightly coupled in with my framework, but is fairly
clear and easily changeable, and might prove of some use to someone.

Sw.