Blender & OpenGL

mickey.l · Post by **mickey.l** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:03 pm

Hi to all,
I have to make a project in c++ using GLUT and Blender.
There is someone that know how can I export the 3D models from blender and import them in my source code?
What are the commands in c++?

zupermonkey · Post by **zupermonkey** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:56 pm

Just export to a Wavefront .obj file and use that instead.

Why? Because loading Blender files directly is most probably not going to be easy, while .obj files are piece of cake.

There's also a lot of tutorials on the web that use the .obj format to load a file, you can find them at NeHe, gametutorials, etc, etc.

SirDude · Post by **SirDude** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:41 pm

There have been a number of OGL exporters written as well.
If you do a search for them I'm sure you will find them.

You could also just use the raw exporter that is provided with blender
and write the GL to read that file in.

theeth · Post by **theeth** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:21 pm

zupermonkey wrote:Just export to a Wavefront .obj file and use that instead.

Why? Because loading Blender files directly is most probably not going to be easy, while .obj files are piece of cake.

There's also a lot of tutorials on the web that use the .obj format to load a file, you can find them at NeHe, gametutorials, etc, etc.

Actually, obj is not a very well defined format, so you'll have to make your parser jump through hoops if you want to support all the variations use on all the tuts on the web.

RAW, as suggested by SirDude, is probably the simplest format you can use.

Martin