irrAn8Loader: an Anim8or file loader for Irrlicht

texel3d · Post by **texel3d** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:10 pm

Hi,

i have started to create an Anim8or file loader (.an8 files).
It depends on LibAn8.

You can download the first version of the project here:
http://texel3d.free.fr/projets/liban8/index.html

It is just a developpement version. It need to be improved and i need to learn how to use Irrlicht, but i could not do that without an .an8 file loader

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:24 pm

The library sounds pretty nice. You should note that an8 is a scene format, which requires Irrlicht to create many scene nodes, instead of just meshbuffers. We don't have a fully worked out scene loader interface so far, but you can get the currently used way from the collada loader.

texel3d · Post by **texel3d** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:43 pm

For the time beeing irrAn8Loader can only load one object (made of several meshes). I will make it support more materials type.

After it will be able to load the scene in one node but without lights, camera and environement (objects will be duplicated for each of their instance).

After that i don't know if i will work on loading a entire scene in several nodes (with ligths, camera,...), or if i will work on animated skinned mesh loading (even if it is already possible, i want to add utility functions to LibAn8 to ease acces to data before).