[ODE] standard file format for architecture descriptions?

[Nate W]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Marc Toussaint wrote:

> Do you know of any standard file format (for ASCII files) to describe
> architectures composed of rigid bodies/geoms, joints, motors, etc ?
> The file format should be as simple as possible - a simple C code
> should be able to parse the file and instantiate the corresponding ODE
> objects. E.g., analogous to the .dot files to describe graphs in the
> dotty language.

There has been some talk of creating a 'standard' file format, but no real
progress (e.g. working code).  There are a couple of working applications
that do create files (my project, Juice, is one of them), but I don't know
of any effort to create a standard library for loading and saving ODE
objects.  

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
http://www.natew.com