[Opensim-dev] Collada as Model Format

[Frisby, Adam]

And to attach a demo object, the size shoots up to 1GB.

Some things XML can't solve, 3D model storage is one of them.

;)

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Teravus Ovares
> Sent: Sunday, 17 May 2009 1:25 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Collada as Model Format
> 
> The only thing that is frustrating about COLLADA..   is it's hard to
> support fully.    For example..    Bullet is a Physics engine that
> totals ~250kb.    BUT if you build in COLLADA support, it becomes 6MB.
> :P
> 
> On 5/16/09, Gustavo Alberto Navarro Bilbao
> <alberto.navarro.bilbao at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A silly question: ¿Can be compatible OGRE and COLLADA at the same
> time?. I
> > say that because I suppose that there is a great time and effort
> spent by
> > the realxtend  and SIRIKATA' teams, working on, and many are
> expecting in
> > July for the new RX-NG and SIRIKATA, and
> > would be a pity not to make the already developed.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> >
> >
> > 2009/5/16 Jani Pirkola <jpirkola at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Immersive Education initiative (IEd) has decided in its Technical
> Working
> >> Group to support COLLADA as the format to transfer assets between
> >> different
> >> platforms.
> >>
> >> http://maxping.org/business/news/immersive-education-adds-support-
> for-realxtend.aspx
> >>
> >> To further support COLLADA, IEd and Khronos launched a contest for
> >> developing content using the format.
> >>
> >> http://maxping.org/business/real-life/champion-the-3d-web-using-
> collada.aspx
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Jani
> >>
> >> 2009/5/16 Tommi Laukkanen <tommi.s.e.laukkanen at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>>
> >>> As custom viewers start to emerge I would like to point to Collada
> >>> specification as one format which could
> >>> be used to support freestyle models (meshes):
> >>>
> >>> This document describes the COLLADA schema. COLLADA is a
> COLLAborative
> >>> Design Activity that
> >>> defines an XML-based schema to enable 3-D authoring applications to
> >>> freely exchange digital assets
> >>> without loss of information, enabling multiple software packages to
> be
> >>> combined into extremely powerful
> >>> tool chains.
> >>>
> >>> The specification:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.khronos.org/files/collada_spec_1_4.pdf
> >>>
> >>> The schema:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.khronos.org/files/collada_schema_1_4
> >>>
> >>> -tommi
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