Collada

We created the Basic GUI.. able to do some OPENGL development. but the Real challange starts Now.

I have a BIG GIS application falls under different Utiities and Telicommuication...
for eg the applications are gas, Electric and telecommunications..

Each applications will have their own database and each application contains min 200+ different objects of different shapes falls under different catagires..

i have desktop application, a web appllication as well as a mobile application.. So the 3D application should fullfill all my needs

we cannot code for each and every object in the application.. so there should be an intelligent way where where i can reuse the objects in desktop , web , mobile application...

The solution is save the objects in a intermediate format and use them where ever necessary... then what is the format???

i did a small research i found different formats available those are collada,x3d/vrml, obj, 3DMLW

vrml/x3d popular format.. x3d is successor of vrml.. an ideal case if the application is web.
Collada: is a industry standard.. collada stands for COLLAborative Design Activity. basically the object is save in XML schema..

similarly differnt formats


I am going with collada..
1. open source,
2. ready api available.. lot of examples available..

for further information read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA
www.collada.org