Hi David,
I had one more quick question, I can load in osg files, but what about the lua
files?
lua is a scripting language, not a 3D model file format... OSG wouldn't
know what to do with it. There is an osgLua project that allows you to
use OSG from lua scripts, though I don't know if it's being maintained
anymore.
And am I able to load any other 3D Models, like google Sketchup files or 3ds or
obj files?
Do I need to install some kind of plugin? And if yes which one and how?
Sketchup I believe uses the COLLADA format, so you'll need to compile
the COLLADA plugin (the dae file reader, as .dae is the normal extension
for COLLADA files). Check the OSG wiki for instructions.
3ds and obj files can be read by default by OSG. Check your Visual
Studio solution, you'll see projects called "Plugin 3ds" and "Plugin
obj". You can just do osgviewer file.3ds and it should load (though of
course the plugins might not support all the features of a particular
format, so the loaded model might look different).
In general, OSG has plugins for lots of stuff by default. Some plugins
have external dependencies. Some external dependencies are included in
the 3rd party bin that you probably downloaded to be able to compile OSG
at all (an example is the PNG loader "Plugin png", the JPEG loader, the
GIF loader).
Other plugins have external dependencies that are not included in the
default 3rd party package (because they're too big, or they're not used
by enough people to justify including them by default). These are
optional compiles, and once you have the dependencies installed you can
tell CMake where to find them, and then regenerate the project files,
and the appropriate project(s) will show up in the Solution file and be
built when you build OSG. The COLLADA plugin is an example of this.
Hope this clears things up,
J-S
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