> This is a "Crystalspace user" point of view : *import features should be > a core part of the engine* and a top priority concern for crystalspace
This is actually a topic on which we are currently working on. Probably, the more interesting solution is an importer based on the Open Asset Import Library. This library can load a rather nice list of different 3D file formats (see http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_formats.html), and the plugin I'm working on allows to load all this data directly into CS, without the need to deal with exporters such as blender2crystal. This is still a work in progress, but this should solve in the future all main problems for importing all base assets into CS (meshes, animations, morph targets and base scenes). This plugin is available on trunk, it won't appear in CS 2.0. Aside from that, Mike Gist has worked on two exporter plugins for 3DS Max and PnP TerrainCreator, the team from PlaneShift has improved the export script for 3DS Max, and the team from Peragro Tempus is working on an asset database system (DAMN, see http://peragro.org/node/87 and http://wiki.peragro.org/index.php/Tools/DAMN). In the past, Blender was the main way to import assets into CS. The blender2crystal project has now fallen asleep, but in the same time CS gets more and more accessible from other 3D editors. So I hope you will find what you expect in here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list Crystal-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:crystal-main-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
