Best 3d Mesh File With Keyframe

[habib15]

Hi all,

What do you think the best file format would be for this:

I want to animate an entire cut scene in Blender and export it to be played in my OGLES 2.0 display engine on the OMAP.

I want it actually rendered instead of creating an avi file and playing that, so just wondering what would be a good file format that has good documentation so I can write a file importer into my engine.

Thanks

Kevin

 

[toonist]

If you are using blender for the 3d models, you could allways write an exporter to your own format. Its quite easy actually.

Dunno really what would be a good 3d model format with keyframes, md2 is one very common format (as you probably know) but it has its restrictions which can be somewhat annoying.

 

[darkblu]

depends what your engine can do animation-wise. can it do keyframed skeletal animation? morphing? both?

i've always used proprietary animation export formats (through plugins), but i hear collada 1.4 might be a standartized solution to what you're after. moreso that it has a blender plugin these days
http://colladablender.illusoft.com/cms/con...category/25/29/.

 

[lulzfish]

That really sounds like the sort of thing you should be doing in a scripting tool / level editor, not in a separate 3d animation package.

It's fine to use Blender for pre-rendered cutscenes, but if you're going to render something in realtime, shouldn't you just use the engine's regular model formats and a script?

 

[darkblu]

That really sounds like the sort of thing you should be doing in a scripting tool / level editor, not in a separate 3d animation package.

It's fine to use Blender for pre-rendered cutscenes, but if you're going to render something in realtime, shouldn't you just use the engine's regular model formats and a script?

animation is often created in a modelling package (just like meshes). and you still need to get those modeller-created animations somehow to your engine. you have two options:

a) through a standartized exchange format, regadless whether natively supported by the modelling package, or through a plugin, potentially with a standard library for reading it at your end
b) through a proprietary format to your liking (i.e. native to your engine), in which case you need your own plugin for the modelling package.

 

[habib15]

That really sounds like the sort of thing you should be doing in a scripting tool / level editor, not in a separate 3d animation package.

It's fine to use Blender for pre-rendered cutscenes, but if you're going to render something in realtime, shouldn't you just use the engine's regular model formats and a script?

That would be great if I had time to create a full fledged engine with scripting, but this is for a tech demonstration to convince higher ups that this is a platform we should be using.

Collada looks like what I was thinking, any libraries out there that already parse it?

Thanks

Kevin

 

[darkblu]

Collada looks like what I was thinking, any libraries out there that already parse it?

http://www.collada.org/mediawiki/index.php...ed_with_COLLADA