[osg-users] What's the status of .osg files?

[Alexandre Vaillancourt]

Hi all!

At the place where I work, we've used OSG for about 10 years; first OSG 3.0
(I think), then 3.2, and we're now transitioning to 3.6. So some of our
models are .osg's.

For the first time, I'm the one who's building the solution and since I
want to reduce the work done (i.e compilation/copy time), I've removed most
of the things that we're not using (i.e. the plug-ins).

I found myself removing the deprecated plug-ins via
BUILD_OSG_DEPRECATED_SERIALIZERS.

And then I haven't been able to load the .osg files in our software.

- So I assume the .osg model files should no longer be used? (We're using
that and .ive model files.)
- If that's the case, what's the suggested replacement for text format
models?
- Do we know when the support will be completely removed from OSG?

Thanks!
--
Alexandre Vaillancourt

[Robert Osfield]

Hi Alexandre,

Officially .osg and .ive are deprecated in favour of the native serializer
baed formats which are .osgt (ascii), .osgb (binary) and .osgx (xml
version). The new serializer based formats were introduced in 3.0.

While the .osg and .ive formats are deprecated we're not about to remove
them from support, the deprecation is more about "don't use" these as they
can't support all the functionality that the modern native formats can.

For you own project I would recommend moving over to writing .osgt and
.osgb by default, and steadily moving over the models you have across.

Cheers,
Robert


On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 01:26, Alexandre Vaillancourt <

Post by Alexandre Vaillancourt
Hi all!
At the place where I work, we've used OSG for about 10 years; first OSG
3.0 (I think), then 3.2, and we're now transitioning to 3.6. So some of our
models are .osg's.
For the first time, I'm the one who's building the solution and since I
want to reduce the work done (i.e compilation/copy time), I've removed most
of the things that we're not using (i.e. the plug-ins).
I found myself removing the deprecated plug-ins via
BUILD_OSG_DEPRECATED_SERIALIZERS.
And then I haven't been able to load the .osg files in our software.
- So I assume the .osg model files should no longer be used? (We're using
that and .ive model files.)
- If that's the case, what's the suggested replacement for text format
models?
- Do we know when the support will be completely removed from OSG?
Thanks!
--
Alexandre Vaillancourt
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[Alexandre Vaillancourt]

All right, great summary, thanks a lot!

Post by Robert Osfield
Hi Alexandre,
Officially .osg and .ive are deprecated in favour of the native serializer
baed formats which are .osgt (ascii), .osgb (binary) and .osgx (xml
version). The new serializer based formats were introduced in 3.0.
While the .osg and .ive formats are deprecated we're not about to remove
them from support, the deprecation is more about "don't use" these as they
can't support all the functionality that the modern native formats can.
For you own project I would recommend moving over to writing .osgt and
.osgb by default, and steadily moving over the models you have across.
Cheers,
Robert
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 01:26, Alexandre Vaillancourt <

Post by Alexandre Vaillancourt
Hi all!
At the place where I work, we've used OSG for about 10 years; first OSG
3.0 (I think), then 3.2, and we're now transitioning to 3.6. So some of our
models are .osg's.
For the first time, I'm the one who's building the solution and since I
want to reduce the work done (i.e compilation/copy time), I've removed most
of the things that we're not using (i.e. the plug-ins).
I found myself removing the deprecated plug-ins via
BUILD_OSG_DEPRECATED_SERIALIZERS.
And then I haven't been able to load the .osg files in our software.
- So I assume the .osg model files should no longer be used? (We're using
that and .ive model files.)
- If that's the case, what's the suggested replacement for text format
models?
- Do we know when the support will be completely removed from OSG?
Thanks!
--
Alexandre Vaillancourt
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