[Xool]

I'm working on an OpenGL (GLUT actually) project and looking for suggestions for model implementations. I've already written rudimentary model I/O routines, but I need something that makes model construction much easier.

I need file I/O routines (C/C++).
I need some GUI-based app to create and export the actual models.

Thanks!

[davechen]

I dunno. That's a big old can of worms, since as you know OpenGL knows nothing about files or formats. I seem to recall some free/shareware Quake modelers/level designers. There ought to be code for reading and writing the files too.

I just did a web search on Mac modelers and found this page:

3dsite's mac software

It looks like several modelers will output DXF, which is a standard, text format. You ought to be able to find code/documentation for DXF.

dave

[tie]

I've read in .obj files for my opengl programs although I've never read any formatting documentation; it's very obvious how to use them.

3dExploration (windows only) can read in many file formats and output OpenGL code, for just a particular model.

I'm not sure what the best modelling program is. Teddy is a cool toy (Windows and Mac, using Java) for *easily* making cartoonish models. Chameleon, on the same web-page lets you texture the models very easy (though not always efficiently).

[Xool]

Thanks for the input! I'll definately check 'em out.

[Xool]

Bump...

Any other suggestions? There's got to be some decent character modeling tools?!

[type_r503]

opengl.org has example programs that load various model formats into an opengl program.