The weekly summaries were harder to maintain than exptected, but there wasn’t really that much of excitement during the first week to justify a post.
This week I’ve worked on finishing the COLLADA parser, which I am pretty much done with. There are some tags that aren’t parsed correctly (i.e., not at all), but otherwise it is pretty complete. With some quick and dirty hacks I was able to take out the information needed to display a mesh (which contained submeshes) onto the screen.
Summary Technically, this isn’t a week that I really have been working on the project, but it is an important week nonetheless.
This week I made an initial project plan schedule, chose five formats to work with and created some folders and files in my Dropbox directory (it’s always nice to have a backup!).
My reasoning for choosing the formats that I have, is that they first and foremost can be exported by Blender.
Today I have begun working on my bachelor’s thesis, which will be about comparing different graphics (3D) file formats.
The initial plan is to create some kind of a parser for the COLLADA, MD2, MDD, XSI and X3D formats and then compare their strengths and weaknesses.
This is really exciting, as I now will be able to work on my COLLADA parser and extend it outside of just my spare time.
As I’ve started to implemented GUI-part of my IRC-client, I’ve started too see some limitations with the handling of the MODE command. One thing that was apparent to me as a user (well, I didn’t think it was anything special) that one can be both voiced and oped at the same time. That is, if you’re initially voiced, then oped and then deoped, you are still voiced.
However, if you enter a channel where a user i oped, how do you know if that person is also voiced?
I initially wanted to have a lot of substance in every I post I made on this site. But seeing as the time between posts would then be very long, I figured I might as well fill it with (somewhat) regular progress updates about the things I’ve been working on.
This time I’ve made some progress in using irrXML to parse Collada files and just collect the information into usable data types.
As I tried to create a simple parsing test with irrXML, I started to see that it handles all of the EOLs (End Of Lines) as text, even though it was just a cosmetic EOL. After some searching, I found that a person named Bobby Anguelov had the same problem and that this was intended functionality.
Like him, I think this is something that should be handled by irrXML. But then again, it is open source, so anyone can create the functionality one wants.