Hi JS, About other serializers (Collada, FBX...), I guess it would be nice using the OSG serialization (as you say), or a default/fallback one.
Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ ----- "Jean-Sébastien Guay" <jean-sebastien.g...@cm-labs.com> a écrit : > Hi Sukender, > > > Actually I hoped someone would help us on the serialization subject! > And yes, I guess new serializers may help. > > I think so, I haven't used them that much but from the description > they > seem simple to use, and as long as the class you want to save is > serializable then when the osg::Object serializes itself it can > serialize all its metadata at the same time. > > > But what about formats supporting metas? It may be helpful to add > somewhere a callback/serializer/anything, which may be called by > plugins to convert from/to a string representation when not handled > natively. No? > > Ah, so you're talking about saving to formats other than .osgt/.osgb > right? > > In that case perhaps the same serializers can be used to serialize the > > metadata, and then put that in a string inside metadata of the other > format file. And then when reading you just check if one of the > metadata > in the file corresponds to some OSG-serialized data, and deserialize > it. > That could work. > > And if the format has additional data that OSG doesn't know about, but > > which the reader might want to store as metadata in the OSG nodes when > > reading the file (like the recent discussion about OpenFlight Surface > > Material Codes), the ReaderWriter can easily add metadata when reading > too. > > But I think perhaps loading/saving metadata to/from OSG-native formats > > would be enough for now... > > J-S > -- > ______________________________________________________ > Jean-Sebastien Guay jean-sebastien.g...@cm-labs.com > http://www.cm-labs.com/ > http://whitestar02.dyndns-web.com/ > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
