Hi! every body .I just started to learn Blender and I want to design the video game teheran in Blender and load it with GLUT.So,please give me the information about which is best 3d model file that I have to choose to export in blender and easy to load and highly used.
Thank you!
For beginners, I would suggest WaveFront OBJ. It is supported by most 3d authoring packages, and you can find many sample models on the web.
OBJ files are plain text, so they are relatively easy to debug, although you must write a parser to read these files. But that may be easier than parsing binary formats such as .3ds (not recommended) as they can be pretty complex. For your OBJ parser you can decide for yourself what data you need, and only implement those features.
You can probably find OBJ parsing code samples on the web as well.
I hate the OBJ format. I'll let you decide on what you want to use.
http://www.opengl.org/wiki/FAQ#What_...hould_I_use.3F
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Sig: http://glhlib.sourceforge.net
an open source GLU replacement library. Much more modern than GLU.
float matrix[16], inverse_matrix[16];
glhLoadIdentityf2(matrix);
glhTranslatef2(matrix, 0.0, 0.0, 5.0);
glhRotateAboutXf2(matrix, angleInRadians);
glhScalef2(matrix, 1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glhQuickInvertMatrixf2(matrix, inverse_matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation1, 1, FALSE, matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation2, 1, FALSE, inverse_matrix);
Can you provide some clues why ? I think it has a good balance between features and complexity.Originally Posted by V-man
OBJ because is very simple to load/use/debug. Almost all 3d packages support OBJ format. It has all the basic stuff you need: Position, normal, Texcoord, material information. If you need something more complex or something with animation create your own format. I wouldn't recomend you to use COLLADA, FBX etc.
Thanks everyone!I have ask this question in other forum also .Many friends gave suggestion to use OBJ format,so I decided to start learning OBJ format.
Have you looked into the Open Asset Import Library? The loader is fine for cross-platform ie linux windows etc but the viewer is windows specific. If you are importing 3D models into your own GLUT code then it is a good cross platform choice.
Except that it's not, because OBJ uses multiple indices, which is not allowed by OpenGL and D3D. So, every time you load a mesh, you have to rebuild it with single indices. Which is a big pain, and not something that most new users know how to do.OBJ because is very simple to load/use/debug.
Writing a OBJ importer is quite time consuming. It is text based which is the biggest problem. Furthermore, there are some differences between what software you use to export. I found one that would write a o at tge start and a o at the end if the object definition.
I found that dumping indices and vertices to my own binary file is far more easier. Eventually, it went through some evolution of course.
The biggest downside to obj is probably what Alfonse said.
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Sig: http://glhlib.sourceforge.net
an open source GLU replacement library. Much more modern than GLU.
float matrix[16], inverse_matrix[16];
glhLoadIdentityf2(matrix);
glhTranslatef2(matrix, 0.0, 0.0, 5.0);
glhRotateAboutXf2(matrix, angleInRadians);
glhScalef2(matrix, 1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glhQuickInvertMatrixf2(matrix, inverse_matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation1, 1, FALSE, matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation2, 1, FALSE, inverse_matrix);
I think the problem of Dinesh is (was?) to find a format that is both easy to read with his own code, and easy to export with his 3D modeling software.
There's not that many match. The old quake formats (md2, md3) were simple enough, but it's probably hard to find an exporter for blender 2.60. There's an exporter for the more recent MD5, but it's text based and slightly more complex.
There's also the "inter-quake model format" (which comes with a blender 2.60 exporter); I've never used it so I don't know if it's complex or not.
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