[ODE] XODE - finalisation

[Chris Gregan]

The format is looking great, good work!

Just looking at the tri-mesh format again. The indices format looks a little
bit inconsistent compared with the vertices format.  As the indices always
specify triangles would it not be more succinct to use <i a="1" b="2" c="3">
?

This makes the winding order explicit, groups each triangle together for
ease of reading (by a human) and a uses a few less characters. It may also
be slightly easier to parse and/or validate.

One issue is that we would no longer really be specifying indices so much as
triangles so the surrounding tags should probably be changed to <triangles>
instead of <indices>.

My apologies if this has been discussed to death already!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Bonde" <cameron.bonde at ninelanterns.com.au>
To: "William Denniss" <lists at omegadelta.net>; <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:26 AM
Subject: RE: [ODE] XODE - finalisation


> In the demo xml at the bottom there needs to be a </hinge2> (for xmlspy
> anyway)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Denniss [mailto:lists at omegadelta.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 2:14 PM
> > To: ode at q12.org
> > Subject: [ODE] XODE - finalisation
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you to everyone who has helped improve the spec thus far.
> >
> > I really want to wrap this up so that myself and others can
> > begin using it.  Please review version 11 here:
> http://tankammo.com/xode/xode.txt
>
> Unless there are any issues raised in the next 24 hours we shall freeze
> the XML structure.  Corrections to the document can still be made but no
> major changes the the structure will be accepted (for example changing
> the format of the matrix) unless there are errors.  Then we can proceed
> to make implementations, and further nut out any further issues.
>
> Several things have been changed in version 11, most significantly the
> greater use of attributes and support for both degrees and radians.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will.
>
> -- 
> William Denniss - will@ http://tanksoftware.com/
>
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