osgAnimation. It's been tested with the majority of the samples in the
COLLADA test repository and works with all of them either as well as, or
better than, the version of the plugin currently in SVN.
Known issue: vertex animation (AKA morphing) doesn't work at present,
but that's a relatively unpopular method of animating so it's not high
on my priority list."
Follow up email:
"I've been informed that the previous DAE submission didn't build on
unix, so here's the submission again with the fixes. Thanks to Gregory Potdevin and Benjamin Bozou.
Also, my apologies to Roland for not crediting his part in making DAE
animation happen, my work was indeed built on top of his work. Thanks
also to Marius Heise and of course Cedric Pinson."
Changes by Robert Osfield, fixed compile issues when compile without C* automatic conversion enabled in ref_ptr<>
and constructor initialization fixes to address some warnings under gcc.
1. Support for ambient occlusion maps.
2. A fix for the incorrect handling of normals on all geometries. The optimizer usually fixed this bug so it probably was not noticed very often.
3. A new option flag on the reader. "StrictTransparency"
// Process transparent and transparency settings according to a strict interpretation of the spec
// See https://collada.org/public_forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1210
otherwise
// Jump through various hoops to accomodate the multiplicity of different ways
// that various people have interpreted the specification
4. Handling of texures in the transparent channel. This is allowed provided that they are the same texture that is specified in the diffuse channel. Accomodating a different texture would require use of programmable pipeline functionality which I have tried to avoid.
5. Handling of <bind_vertex_input> elements.
""
New features
+Read and write of osg::LOD, osg::Switch, osgSim::Sequence, osgim::MultiSwitch and osgSim::DOFTransform data in <extra>
+Read and write of osg::Node description data in <extra>
+Plugin option "NoExtras" to prevent writing of <extra> data and only traverse the active children when saving
Changes/additions
+instanced_geometry and instanced_controller are now loaded in a single Geode with multiple Geometries instead of multiple geodes with a single Geometry
+Changed all calls to the deprecated createAndPlace() to the new add() methods
+All transformation elements <scale>, <rotate>, <translate>, <lookat>, <matrix>, <skew> are now concatenated properly in to a single MatrixTransform.
Previously this was not done in order as required by Collada and and not all elements were included.
+Complete skew matrix creation
+Automatically add GL_RESCALE_NORMAL if scale is non-identity
+Blinn shininess remapping to [0,128] when in range [0,1]
+Changes to CMake file to make it compile on Windows
+Coding style and code documentation
Bug fixes
+Transparent texture writing fixed
+Fixed bug in using osg node name as collada node ID
+Fixed usage of double sided faces in GOOGLEEARTH extra
+Not adding blendfunc and blendcolor when opaque
TODO/Wishlist
-solve differences in drawables, DAE reader should place multiple collation elements into multiple primitivesets in a single geometry where possible (only when same material)
-solve differences in matrices
-multitexture support
-skinned mesh and generic animations using osgAnimation
-profile_GLSL based on COLLADA OpenGL Effects Viewer http://ati.amd.com/developer/rendermonkey/downloads.html
-handling more <extra> to more closely mimic the intended lighting"
There was a problem converting a file to Collada by using osgconv like this:
osgconv file.osg file.dae
You would get an error message:
I/O error : Permission denied
I/O error : Permission denied
error : xmlNewTextWriterFilename : out of memory!
Error: daeLIBXMLPlugin::write(file://cessna.dae) failed
Warning: Error in writing to "cessna.dae".
This was due to some bad URI processing code in the Collada plugin. The attached file fixes this by using the Collada DOM's URI processing functions. After this change the file will convert successfully in the local directory.
"
1. DAE object no longer held onto by plugin.
2. Filename to URI conversion now handled internally by plugin.
2. User can supply an external DAE object for use by the plugin.
3. User can supply a std:string object for the plugin to return the URI of
the document just processed.
4. User can supply a std::string to receive the unit name information from
the document just read in. (e.g. meters, inches, etc.)
5. User can supply a float to receive the metric conversion factor from the
document just read in.
6. User can supply an enum to receive the up axis orientation information
from the document just read in.
7. Material transparency can be both read and written.
8. User can supply an experimental GoogleMode option on output. The plugin
will try to emulate the way Sketchup specifies transparency (i.e. the
inverse of what it should be!). I am still struggling to get GE to
understand transparency, anyone know what it expects?
9. Rudimentary support for Collada effect parameters (newparam, setparam,
param) on input. Basic nVidia FX Composer dae documents can now be read.
"
I've done some additional small modification regarding constness in ReaderWriter and added
mutable on _pluginData so passing data back would be possible too.
Have updated the collada plugin (ReaderWriterDAE.cpp) to use the map to handle options and
have attached the changes.
The stuff in daeReader.h and daeWriter.h are just cosmetic changes to get rid of a warning."
completed the new registration of the plugin-readerwriters
("REGISTER_OSGPLUGIN") according to your osgstaticviewer-example (see
attachment, based on today's svn)."
only DAE instance when it's first needed instead of in the constructor.
This fixes the problem with osgdb_dae.dll not being loaded due to
unwanted ordering of global initialization.
This fix and the previous fix of the COLLADA plugin might be unnecessary
with the latest COLLADA DOM, but since many of us will probably still
use the older version of the DOM, I guess it's better this way.
"
