1 goat3d

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3 A 3D scene, character, and animation file format specification, library, and tools.

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5 Goat3D is a hierarchical 3D scene, character, and animation file format set,

6 targeting mostly real-time applications (such as games). The goat3d

7 specification defines 2 complimentary file formats:

8 * The main goat3d file format defines meshes, lights, cameras, environmental

9 parameters, materials, and transformation hierarchies.

10 * The animation file format defines a sequence of keyframes and interpolation

11 parameters, for any number of nodes, defined in the main scene file.

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14 This project provides the specification of the file formats, a simple library

15 with a clean C API for reading and writing files in the goat3d scene and

16 animation file formats, as well as a number of tools dealing with such files.

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18 Specifically, at the moment (early development stage), the following are

19 included in various degrees of completion:

20 * *libgoat3d*, a library for reading and writing goat3d scene and animation files.

21 * *maxgoat*, a goat3d scene and animation exporter for autodesk 3dsmax 2014.

22 * *ass2goat*, a universal 3D asset conversion utility based on the excellent

23 assimp library, from a huge number of 3D file formats to the goat3d file

24 format.

25 * *goatview*, a 3D scene and animation preview tool, based on OpenGL.

26 * *goatprim*, a procedural 3D model (primitive) generator for quick testing.

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28 The following are planned for the near future:

29 * *blendgoat*, an exporter for [http://www.blender.org/ Blender].

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31 License

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33 Copyright (C) 2014 John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org>

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35 libresman is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General

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