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I'm searching for Tutorials / Documentation / Code how to use ASSIMP.
Animate Camera / Light and Skeleton aniamtion.

There is so little information on this topic.

Any help is wellcome.

Thx, Kirill

http://assimp.sourceforge.net/lib_html/usage.html - pretty much everything is there.

I REALLY wanna make a comment on the word ASS. But no I won't do it.

wasnt ASS IMP a mod for dungeon keeper?

Not an official one, either way.

@wysiwtf - Doom?

That was Impse :)

Some info on how to use the skeleton stuff can be found here http://ogldev.atspace.co.uk/www/tutorial38/tutorial38.html
It shows more or less properly shows how to use the data provided by assimp.

I recommend NOT to use assimp if you really need meshes imported correctly (without screwing up the topology) - you will figure out why as soon you try that.

Or you could just use Assimp and disable all the postprocessing flags, las ;)

I've used assimp for importing static geometry only, so can't really say.. but it worked fine for that. Except that the DLL is so huge that it made more sense to just dump the raw data into a file and ditch the DLL =)

So is there a good alternative to Assimp? I've had real trouble getting meshes into it reliably and consistently. Different importers/exporters on the same data sets often do wildy different things, and sometimes they don't even work at all. I mean I can usually tune the process so that I can find a pathway to, for example, successfully export from Blender and import into my app.. but then that pathway breaks if I try to import models from somewhere else. It seems like a good library if you have a fixed and well defined pipeline, not so good if you want to support different formats/workflows.

Then again you can undefine all the formats you dont want - that slims it down considerably.

But yeah, I was thinking of making a loader/exporter for an Assimp-intermediate format, just haven't gotten around it yet.

evilpaul: is there any interchange format or convertor that handles all different paths between tools relaibly? i havent found one - not fbx, not collada.

.obj :)
but then again i recently discovered that also is a pain in the ass with 3dsmax :P

not even obj files work consistently between different programs. I've seen software that writes them using the system locale - so on a german system, it used comma instead of decimal point. Hiliarity ensued.

and opening them on a system with en_US locale converts all lengths to miles implicitly...

If I recall correctly than you will just get a unconnected triangle soup for triangle meshes...
And if you start using the JOIN_IDENTICAL_VERTICES things... well look at the code what that thing does, it's kind of horrible if I recall correctly ;). It's really nice for games if you don't want to compute anything on your mesh topology, as soon you really care about your original mesh topology - you have to be very careful (T-junctions etc.).

If you hack assimp a bit, you can get the correct topology. We did that for various reasons.
For the standard use case assimp is intended to be used for - it's nice.

than=then.

Believe me, everything attached to google on the assimp topic, I looked at.
Perhaps some private code would help.

I managed to load skeleton animation.
My code is based on the Fernando Carvalho example:
https://plus.google.com/+FernandoCarvalho/posts/X7wSbBdMeCb

But need to understand some details, so if you have build successful assimp code please share.

thx, Kirill