>>>One more question: Would the OSG-Collada loader also hold the >>> >>> >>animations? >> >>Since OpenSG currently has very little support for animation, I doubt >>that this will happen just because we get a Collada loader. If someone >>starts developing an animation module for OpenSG we might get something >>like that. >> >>If the OpenSG-Collada loader will be able to parse that animation data >>into decent data structures, writing a simple animation library will >>probably be quite easy. (I'm not really updated on Collada, but it seems >>to be some kind of generic format which can hold almost anything, but >>with standards on how to specify all of the usefull stuff.) >> >> > >I remember a discussion on the same topic, the problem was >that animations need some global clock, which was somehow >incompatible with the clustering concept of OSG... But, as >always, there are solutions (which were also posted on this list). > > > >>We want animation here at my place, but haven't yet found a good way to >>export it from 3ds/maya into OpenSG, so we avoid it for the time being.) >>If the Collada loader turns out nice, I could probably write something >>useful for us, that others might find useful as well (albeit I'll need >>help getting the FCD-stuff right. >> >> > >We could probably contribute on that, we definitely need >animations! BTW: OpenSceneGraph has anims ;) > > I think one of the reasons for this is that OpenSceneGraph has an app traversal to update animations and other changes in the graph. OpenSG currently doesn't support this as a first class traversal. I know we would really like to see some type of support for this formalized so we can put more logic into the scene graph where it makes sense for our applications.
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