glTF Reference implementation?

[pbeck]

Will Khronos provide, or is there talk about doing a reference glTF reader lib implementation in native GL or WebGL, once it hits 1.0?

There's work going on for three.js, a block for Cinder (https://github.com/jhurlbut/Cinder-glTF) and Cesium, but not all of them work, and they can't easily be used as libraries.

I'd be glad to contribute to such a project but I'm not sure my programming skills are strong enough to start :)

[pjcozzi]

Thanks for bringing Cinder to our attention, cool!

All of the known loaders are here: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/master/README.md

We are really interested in an open-source barebones WebGL (or OpenGL) loader. If you develop it, we are happy to help promote it.

[tparisi]

The Three.js loader is based on an underlying parsing library written by
Fabrice... is that what we're talking about? Kind of like SAX parser, it
calls callbacks on recognizing entities.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Patrick Cozzi [email protected]
wrote:

Thanks for bringing Cinder to our attention, cool!

All of the known loaders are here:
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/master/README.md

We are really interested in an open-source barebones WebGL (or OpenGL)
loader. If you develop it, we are happy to help promote it.

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[pbeck]

Ideally I was thinking of a C++ library bundled with a sample SDL-application for reading and displaying glTF files – that would also make a good starting point for many cross platform projects. I think glTF will be great for many mobile projects, and since WebGL support and performance is not yet uniform across devices getting good native libs are important.

[pjcozzi]

A C++ library would be awesome, go for it!

[tparisi]

Yes that would be fantastic! Godspeed;

[vinjn]

How about a glTF loader for assimp?

1. We can leverage common utils and the existent mesh / animation structure from assimp.
2. All the users of assimp will have glTF support with zero efforts.

[tparisi]

An exporter out of assimp would be even more useful...

[pjcozzi]

+1 on assimp support, see #51.

[pjcozzi]

Let's move this discussion to #456.