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virtual IAnimatedMesh* irr::scene::ISceneManager::getMesh(const c8 * filename)
Having only lights, cameras and meshes is a bit limited. I would like to have a try at changing the loader and try to add these features:COLLADA is an open Digital Asset Exchange Schema for the interactive 3D industry. There are exporters and importers for this format available for most of the big 3d packages at http://collada.org. Irrlicht can import COLLADA files by using the ISceneManager::getMesh() method. COLLADA files need not contain only one single mesh but multiple meshes and a whole scene setup with lights, cameras and mesh instances, this loader can set up a scene as described by the COLLADA file instead of loading and returning one single mesh. By default, this loader behaves like the other loaders and does not create instances, but it can be switched into this mode by using SceneManager->getParameters()->setParameter(COLLADA_CREATE_SCENE_INSTANCES, true); Created scene nodes will be named as the names of the nodes in the COLLADA file. The returned mesh is just a dummy object in this mode. Meshes included in the scene will be added into the scene manager with the following naming scheme: path/to/file/file.dea#meshname. The loading of such meshes is logged. Currently, this loader is able to create meshes (made of only polygons), lights, and cameras. Materials and animations are currently not supported but this will change with future releases.
+ very basic animation support
+ materials with possibly associated glsl shaders
+ path grids
+ properties assigned to objects
+ decals
+ loading collada xml format using a xml binary encoding, something called .cxml or .cdae instead of .xml or .dae
Could someone give a roundup of what should i read before trying to compile irrlight and what source files i have to look at for making changes to the dae loader ?
