The challenge with reading file formats vs writing plugins to particular applications is that you need to be able to parse and make sense of the file format. In some cases this is quite difficult, because the file format often has to be reverse engineered and may be tied to specific implementation details of the application. 3D Studio Max files are particularly infamous for this, going so far as to actually include the names of the plugin DLLs that were used to in creating the model, which is why you don't see any other software that can read .max files.
The trend, hopefully, is towards interoperable file formats (like X3D and Collada are picking up some steam) so that modeling programs can export to common, well documented formats that applications like VOS can read in. Vendor lock-in through file formats is especially severe in the world of 3D data, where unlike text documents you don't have the last-ditch option of exporting to plain text, or printing it out and scanning it back in... On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:05:03PM +0000, sconzey wrote: > Maybe a set of shell scripts, rather than plugins for the actual > application... > > have a blend2cod, and a obj2cod and a lwo2cod etc... > > On 1/21/07, Jason Heblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:38:45 -0500, Reed Hedges wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:34:06PM +0100, swe wrote: > > > > > >> Its nice that one can use blender to convert models, but thats another > > >> barrier to download, keeping people from attending. > > > Are there other modeling tools that it would be nice to support? > > > Sketchup would be a good one I think, it's really easy to use and is > > > becoming popular and well known through its association with Google Earth. -- [ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet] [ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ] [ http://interreality.org/~tetron ][ pgpkey: pgpkeys.mit.edu 18C21DF7 ]
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