[Bf-gamedev] Perhaps consider OpenGEX instead of FBX/Collada?

[Bastien Montagne]

Hi,

Wasn’t aware of that format, had a quick look to it this morning.

I find it rather interesting (in the sense, it tries to create a similar 
thing to collada/FBX, but avoiding the huge issues of those formats, 
i.e. lack of open, clear, and reasonably simple and strict specifications).

But, aside the topic of being rather confidential currently, it seems to 
me it tends to be too much game-oriented. E.g. obvious features like 
polygons are not supported at all, for a new generalist format in our 
days this is rather sad. And the way tris/quads are handled is also 
quite limitating.

Further more, being text-only format is a drawback to me (not huge, but 
still), full-binary format can be much much more efficient to 
read/write, and smaller too (even though compression can even things a 
bit here).

So in a word, I'd rather wait a bit to see where it goes, before 
deciding to drop collada/fbx! :P

Bastien

Le 03/10/2014 13:54, metalliandy a écrit :
> It doesn't, iirc. Unreal Engine only supports FBX and OBJ.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Andy
>
> On 03/10/2014 07:54, Salamanderrake wrote:
>> On 10/03/2014 12:03 AM, Matt Three wrote:
>>> I decided to start a thread on this after reading a number of the other
>>> threads on FBX integration. I'm using Blender with UE4 and while it
>>> works pretty well (thanks mont29) I still find it easier to use .obj for
>>> static geometry. I don't animate so I don't really have an opinion on that.
>>>
>>> We all know the problems with FBX being a black box and Collada's myriad
>>> of problems so I would like to draw attention to another effort done by
>>> the C4 Engine guys.
>>>
>>> www.opengex.com <http://www.opengex.com> is where you can find the spec
>>> and information.
>>>
>>> OpenGEX has a well defined open standard and avoids a lot of the
>>> problems with Collada.  I was thinking with the relative openness of UE4
>>> it would be possible to write a plugin to use it as an exchange format
>>> instead of FBX.  I realize this is probably a gigantic undertaking but
>>> with the amount of work going into FBX support in Blender it might be
>>> worthwhile. I doubt you will get CryEngine support but I wouldn't be
>>> surprised if you could get it into Unity.
>>>
>>> Anyway, just a thought.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> How well does http://opengex.org/ integrate with UE4?
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