Is Sony's LevelEditor useful?

[gwald]

I was playing around with this level editor... and thought it might be useful for horde3D. https://github.com/SonyWWS/LevelEditor?tab=readme-ov-file

My thoughts:

• It's more mature and advanced.
• Supports collada (not the full subset)
• XML scene based.
• It's easy to build and maintain (C#/dotnet)
• It was used in AAA games.

[algts]

I've looked at it before, but there are several points to consider:

• Requires a large amount of time to adapt the editor to use Horde3D
• Unmaintained - you'll have to maintain it yourself (large unknown code base, probably with many quirks)
• Probably uses an unmaintained .NET version - would have to be ported to current .net core
• Windows only (don't know about the window toolkit they are using - if it is Windows Forms, it may somewhat work under Linux, if WPF - good luck)
• Horde's C# bindings may not be optimal for the editor, would also require some work

To sum it up, it is probably a lot of work :) I won't say it cannot be done, but with current Horde's development pace it is probably an impossible task.

[gwald]

Good points, I dont see it as a h3d editor replacement, but a nice complement.

I tried it in linux, I couldn't get it running, and there's no mention in the repo of linux. :/ https://github.com/SonyWWS/LevelEditor/issues/42

I was thinking of starting small... comparing the H3D scene xml to it's Sony's .lvl XML to see if it translates. Then Hardcode a H3D scene file exporter, I'm new to C# so I'll see how far I get :D