Substance could be a really nice addition.
Though it doesn’t just need a loader, we need to account for the “dynamic” nature of it in the engine itself, and maybe provide some UI as they have in UE4 and Unity.
If it comes to life I’ll contact the guys from Allegorithmics, and se what we can work out.
Oh it comes out that the discussions that followed my post cover pretty much anything I would’ve want to ask and the ideas list you created too. I will have to think about an idea if I have one.
→ For commercial models it is quite common to simply have a all in one animation, plus a readme that say frame 0-101 walk 102-200 run ect. A programmatical way to split animations for jme would be nice. (plus maybee gui in sdk for this?)
→ Generally all model loaders do not allow to add a custom material hook, instead it is always necessary to do a later iteration step over the whole model, replacing the materials with the own ones. (becomes an issue when the jme material losses data already, one example are some blender material settings that can be read by the loader but do not map to general jme materials)
→ apart from that some features that apparently seem to work in unity does not work when going the .blend file way.
Maybee its possible to implement at least a few more commonly used ones.
I’d like to participate . Actually I applied last year for the cinematic editor , and although I got a very good feedback from @nehon , I wasn’t accepted … I didn’t contribute to jme since then as I got my self envolved in other stuff ,although I had some time about 3 months ago playing with the engine and revising what I’d learnt before . As I see this seems to be a problem . I guess I will try again any way this year with hope , though :))
I’d LOVE to participate I’m in love with JME3 and working on an application for ordering food (a clone of apps like grubhub, hellofood) making my own gui elements (scrollers, panels…) I’m a 2nd year student of Computer Science Ing. regardless if I am admitted or not I hope we participate and rock the stage even further this year.