[Bf-cycles] Cycles Standalone File Format

[Lukas Stockner]

Hi all,
my suggestion for the Cycles Standalone File Format would be Named Binary Tag (NBT). It is really easy to implement, binary, hierarchical (tree-like), has very little overhead, is gzipped and there are quite a few libraries for it.
It consists of nested, named tags with defined type (integer, float, string, collection of other tags etc.), so you can build any data structure with it.
I've used it myself for some scene file formats and never lacked a feature.
Storage efficiency should be near-perfect with gzip and binary blobs for geometry data etc., and (in my experience) parsing is faster than for .xml.gz