Skyline Assimp Loader

[SolarPortal]

We have had our first success loading a .dae mesh file format into skyline.

The .dae file is converted and spits out a .mesh and .material file, for use inside the engine.
The material instantly went into the material editor and worked after tangent upgrades.



Hopefully, it shall be completed for the final release of this year.

[ant0N]

the good news! beautiful building

[SolarPortal]

it is a dexsoft asset, part of the Modern building pack:
http://www.dexsoft-games.com/

i'm going to try some other file formats now and will post back with some results

[Ellement]

Great job guys , cannot wait for the release,

[SolarPortal]

so far, i have had full success with models only (no animations):

Converted successfully and materials made successfully

• dae
• lwo
• obj

Not successful with meshes or materials

• ms3d: Smoothing group issues, but materials work
• lxo: No materials
• x: smoothing group issues and came in 180 degrees on the Y Axis, but materials work

I have only tested one model so far in the different formats it has, other models may work better than others.
My best choice for a format so far is .dae.

Assimp does not seem to have a .fbx import, strange, ill look into another way of getting support for FBX Models

Heres a quick image:

[ant0N]

I believe in the FBX! FBX was the best in all engines, with whom I had to deal.

[Nobby]

[quote="SolarPortal"]My best choice for a format so far is .dae.[/quote]
Collada (DAE) import would be great. Secondlife has also implemented mesh import via collada import, included rigged meshes.

see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh/Creating_a_mesh

Many 3D Tools are supporting Collada.

see http://www.collada.org/mediawiki/index. ... _directory

So in my view Collada (DAE) would be a great default import/export format.

I'm just fighting with the Ogre Max exporter. It's not a smooth solution imho.


*offtopic on*
why bbs code isn't enabled in my posts? "Enable BBCode by default" is ON in my user control panel.
*offtopic off*

[SolarPortal]

I have had one character in through .dae but with only one animation so far
Having .fbx means access to sites such as mixamo and direct export / import to skyline.

Good times in secondlife lol, eats up too much time so had to leave hehe
They didnt have dae import or export then, just some weird texturing solution lol. Reckon that makes for some interesting visuals now.

as for your bbcodes, i dont know yet but i am still searching for a solution

[Ellement]

When do you think can we get our hands on the assimp loader? This is the thing i am waiting for

[SolarPortal]

next release

we are planning on releasing in the upcoming weekend as the final release of the year.

[Vortex]

Wow, .obj format! it`s so good!

[SolarPortal]

time for an update on the development.

finally got the conversion as a seamless workflow with no change to how you are currently working:
heres an image showing what i mean:



Once the mesh has been changed, change the material file to match and they can be edited directly in the material editor

The tangents are automatically generated on import.
Currently meshes are 90% to 100% working every time, whereas still not having much success with characters and multiple anims, but still working on it.

till next update