gltf VS ozz-animation

This is a very ugly and confusing site which claims to be an overview of the format. I balked after trying in vain to parse it for two minutes. So off to the wiki.

Rustracer: a PBR glTF 2.0 renderer based on Vulkan ray-tracing, written in Rust.

I've found glTF ( https://www.khronos.org/gltf/ ) to be quite simple. The entire format is encompassed in something like a dozen entity types. Nice visual overview here:

Do yourself a favor and learn about making glFT files. That's the format they're using internally. One file, with everything self contained plus more advanced shader features than OBJ.

Looks like a GLTF file. https://www.khronos.org/gltf/

There are no standard 3d formats at the moment that you can use and view in VR with the same ease as you could a png/jpeg on a desktop, VR is still very much based around full apps with their own proprietary formats. But glTF/glb at least can be imported with reasonable ease into many different places, e.g. both the WMR and Oculus home environments have importer for them.

- Exporting as .obj might be a bit of a poor/outdated choice, please check gltf

hmm. never heard of GLTF. A quick look on their site shows max/maya/houdini/blender/C4D so thats good. It seems to be roylty free. Is it open source? Is that something I should be looking for?

Thank you for the response. The subreddit /glTF is basically dead because no one can post without moderator approval and the moderator has been inactive for the past 3 years. Can you please let me know what the "other reasons" are why you will not approve my request? I work for The Khronos Group who created and maintains glTF. Please see www.khronos.org/gltf for more information. Thank you for your reconsideration.

I really like the C++ ozz-animation library, and Rust doesn't have a good answer for it (yet! work is being done) It has a really great compressed animation data format that again is good for the web It also has a great runtime library for distributing animation calculations across separate cores

I'm not sure that even Sokol has animation support built in. The animation sample appears to use OZZ Animation, which could probably be used with the other rendering libraries too.

http://guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/ for animations

On the otherhand, if I was going to pull in some code/an existing animation system, I have been interested in messing with https://github.com/guillaumeblanc/ozz-animation. It is pretty cool. There is a separate runtime/engine code from whatever editor/asset management you use. I've been toying with the idea of maybe pulling it into Jedi Academy.