[FR]: Save/export to glTF (.glb)

[RafaelLinux]

I'm sure it's a hard work, but adopt open and updated technologies should be a priority to make Meshroom better. So, I propose that glTF to be the default 3D model format instead OBJ. OBJ

• Has a limited feature set,
• Is inefficient in terms of storage space and the ability to quickly read and write data, and as consequence, loading and viewing it in a web browser it's very slow. glTF
• Has a very rich set of features.
• Is very efficient at transferring 3D model data
• Adopted in Blender
• A growing set of software, industries and sites are adopting as a standard (Blender, Clara.io, Godot, Sketchfab, Threejs, Facebook ...)

I have no idea about how to do it, cause I'm not a C/C++ programmer, but I'm sure to adopt glTF as default format will make Meshroom the choice for all 3D creator.

Thank you

[natowi]

Interesting. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

https://github.com/microsoft/glTF-SDK

[TheShubham99]

Any update on this @RafaelLinux? 🤔

[RafaelLinux]

Really it seems my question was not interesting for developers, cause no one replied 10 months ago

:/

[natowi]

It is interesting, but we have limited resources and many other ideas/ features to implement. At the moment the focus is on finishing MR2020.1.

[fabiencastan]

Yes it would great to have. It was already in our big dream-list backlog! As it is independent from the pipeline, it would be a perfect feature for a developer who wants to contribute for the first time. If someone is seeing this 🙂

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[simogasp]

Assimp supports obj and gltf among many others. http://github.khronos.org/glTF-Project-Explorer/ And we can use it also to replace all the code for obj and ply in case

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[hammady]

I identified an issue in the CMake files that prevents assimp from building with GLTF support. I will follow up shortly with a PR to fix that. While this does not make GLTF the default, but a simple change in the Meshroom pipelines would make this happen.

[hammady]

Created the required PRs as noted above.