Ways to contribute to glTF

[pjcozzi]

We believe the true usefulness of glTF goes beyond the spec itself; it is an ecosystem of tools, documentation, and extensions contributed by the community.

We encourage everyone to contribute to the glTF community. We are happy to list your work in this repo's main README.md.

Way to contribute include:

Content Pipeline Tools

• Export glTF from Blender, Maya, etc.
• Convert popular formats to glTF.
• Provide patches and bug reports for COLLADA2GLTF.
• Optimize glTF assets, e.g., texture atlas, batching, etc. Contribute to gltf-pipeline.
• Add glTF support to Assimp.
• Add glTF output for fbx-conv

Runtime

• Simple minimal loader for WebGL, OpenGL ES, OpenGL, Vulkan, D3D, etc.
• Use glTF in your engine!
• Helper libraries for loading glTF, e.g., decompression extension.
• Add glTF loader to GitHub.

Documentation

• Contribute these to the official glTF-Tutorials repo.
• Contribute to the glTF Wikipedia page.

Extensions

• Implement and propose extensions to the core spec.

Models

• Contribute sample models for testing.

If you want us to spread the word about your glTF work, leave a comment here or email Patrick Cozzi, pjcozzi@siggraph.org.

[vinjn]

I have a WIP project assimp2gltf
https://github.com/vinjn/assimp2gltf

The purpose of this project is to convert files in 40+ 3D file formats, including Collada, 3DS, OBJ, LWO, FBX, Blender, X, STL, PLY, MS3D, B3D, MD3, MDL, DXF and IFC to gltf.

However it's far far away from that purpose.

[pjcozzi]

@vinjn wow, this has great potential. I see that the last commit was 6 months ago. Do you plan to update this now that glTF has reached draft 1.0? Here is the glTF 0.8 to 1.0 guide: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/wiki/glTF-0.8-to-1.0-Guide

[hadronized]

I work on a Haskell loader, here. I was surprised to see that the format uses numeric constant instead of labels (GL_FLOAT instead of 9349364, for instance).

[pjcozzi]

@phaazon sounds cool! Let us know when it is ready and we'll list it here.

glTF uses constants instead of strings since they are the easiest thing for the runtime to use. See #96.

[hadronized]

Yeah, I see. I’ll try to advance on my loader and will keep you know – I have a lot of project in the kitchen, but I will eventually have the loader ready sooner or later.

[vinjn]

@pjcozzi Yes, I have the plan. And I want to use glTF as the scene description format for my hobby engine project. I will inform you of the progress.

[games]

A year ago I use glTF(based on 0.6) in my project(https://github.com/games/orange), seems I should upgrade to 1.0 :)

[pjcozzi]

@games yes, please update and let us know when your engine supports 1.0!

[kimkulling]

Hi,

AssetImporterLib will create a new importer for you. See assimp/assimp#673

[pjcozzi]

@kimkulling great news! This is exciting. Let me know if you have any questions on the spec or need sample code.