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Just if anyone is interested in: I moved the ZFXCE2-repository from SourceForge to Github. You can find it here: https://github.com/kimkulling/zfxce2 I did some progress in the rendering system:Currently the whole transformations a re done via registered transformations groups.I also introduces a base scene-graph. Currently no culling is done.I fought a l...

Hi all,

I am very proud to announce our new 3.0 release of the Assimp Importer Library:

And here are the release notes:
New export interface similar to the import API. Supported export formats are Collada, Obj, Ply and stl.
New import formats are XGL/ZGL
A new experimental importer is also...

I am really glad to announce that the Asset-Importer-Library version 3.0 was released last week. Currently only a Source-Only package is available. The guy's from Debian asked for it and all the core-members of the assimp-team are currently really spare on time. But we will release the SDK as fast as possible.

You can find the source-package at...

Hi,

I will move the detailed blog-posts regarding projects I am involved onto my own website: www.KimKulling.de . If their are any big new I will try to add some jornal entries here as well.

Kimmi

I finished the first approach to import assets in a separate loader task and I was able to see my first imported model. Currently any kind of texturing needs to be implemented. But how can you desribe the location of a resource like a texture or a shader in a...

Hi,
just a short update from the Asset-Importer-Library. We are now part of the Debian-installation. Currently we are not part of the stable release, but hopefully we will get a lot of feedback from the linux front :-). And the last release of the Clan-Library will use our Collada-Loader. The old one used in older Clanlib-releases was replaced by Assimp....

I wans't able to update this user-jornal the last couple of weeks, sorry. Currently I am in educational holiday for three months and my daughter learned one thing at the beginning: moving. So I had to learn how to avoid bigger accidents like switching off the computer or destroy the house very vrey fast at first...

After getting a lot of questions about the Assimp-animation format offered Smasherprog wrote a simple Animation-controller and published the source. Hopefully this will help others to understand how to get the animations running.
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After having the first vacation with our little daugther in Stuttgart ( Germany ) I restarted my work on the ZFXCE2 render-subsystem. I tried to build at first a working render-thread, who gets signaled to refresh the render window from the render-interface. This interface is the front-end used by the user.
To get a simple feedback from the render-driver I...

The team of the ZFXCE2-team ( me ) mode soe progress:
I implemented a first initial version of the render-driver. The driver will run in a separate task, which spawn its own thread. The communication between the client like a game or a model viewer will be implemented by...