[vtk-developers] material files patch for vtkOBJReader

Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin jchris.fillionr at kitware.com
Thu Apr 16 18:07:23 EDT 2015


+1

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Berk,
>
> Peter has done an excellent job creating the OBJImporter. He has been
> very responsive to suggestions. Although there may be some minor
> cleanup necessary, I think his gitlab topic is ready to merge.
> However, he does not have permission to do the merge. I suggest he be
> added to the approved developer list.
>
> Bill
>
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/26
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > My preference would be to develop a new OBJ importer that uses the OBJ
> > reader. Making the OBJ reader depend on rendering may impact some folks
> > negatively. By the way, I would defer this for a few months if possible.
> We
> > have a project targeted towards importing material properties for ray
> > tracing etc. I don't think that we will follow the importer route and we
> > will probably develop a new infrastructure. It may fit better here.
> >
> > Best,
> > -berk
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Peter Karasev <karasevpa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>       I'm hoping to get an update for vtkOBJReader integrated in that
> >> enables reading material-texture-library (.mtl) files. These are
> typically
> >> distributed along with the .obj file that contains geometry data.
> >>
> >>       There's an issue with the module structure of VTK in doing this,
> >> however: having the MTL file means that you basically must generate not
> only
> >> geometry but the entire actors with vtkProperty*'s set on them.
> >>
> >>       I propose moving vtkOBJReader into the same area as
> vtk3DSImporter,
> >> where it is allowed to access things in vtkRenderingCore like vtkActor
> >> class. Alternatively, a dependency(ies) could be added to vtkIOGeometry
> to
> >> allow creating actors. Any views on which way to go here?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
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> >> Peter  Karasev
> >> karasevpa at gmail.com
> >>
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