dotXsiLoader

dotXsiLoader is a java3d Loader interface implementation to allow loading scene data like Light and Model information into a scenegraph. dotXSI is an ASCII format file format defined by Softimage Co. to store SOFTIMAGE®|3D and SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® scene data.

Java3d offers the com.sun.j3d.loaders.Loader interface which loaders of diverse file formats have to follow to allow inclusion of scene data of an external file into the scene graph. There is recently no dotXSI Loader available to the public listed on the j3d community site for File Loaders. Softimage provides information about the dotXSI file format through the SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® FTK Developer's Guide which is mainly directed to C++ developers. The dotXSI format has in comparisson to other 3d scene data file formats a lot of advantages, such as hierarchical transformation and modelling structures and a human readable representation. The dotXsiLoader Project's aim will be to provide an implementation which in a first step manages to load the basic objects from the file and later fullfills as many parts as can be mapped to a java3d representation.

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latest version released 2004-03-18 is 0.2.0
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// get the LoaderFactory singleton
final LoaderFactory factory = LoaderFactory.getInstance();

// create a Loader outlet for the given filename
Loader loader = factory.createLoader("myScene.xsi");

// use the Loader to build a Scene from the dotXSI file
Scene scene = loader.load("myScene.xsi");

// access the generated scenegraph branch
BranchGroup branchGroup = scene.getSceneGroup();

// add the branch into the scenegraph
scene.addChild(branchGroup);

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