dargite3d/src/loadModel.h

#ifndef _LOADOBJ_
#define _LOADOBJ_

#include <vector>
#include "vec3.h"

/* Loads a .obj file (it's a toy parser - it's not complete)
 * gets object's vertices and calculate's its boundbox
 */
bool loadOBJ(
	const char *path,
	std::vector<vec3> &out_vertices,
	vec3 *bound,
	unsigned char mirror);

/* Loads a .ply file (it's a toy parser - it's not complete)
 * gets object's vertices and vertex colors and calculate's its boundbox
 * mirror makes the object mirrored on x/y/z 
 * x = 0b1 | y = 0b10 | z = 0b100
 */
bool loadPLY(
	const char *path,
	std::vector<vec3> &out_vertices,
	std::vector<vec3> &out_color,
	vec3 *out_bound,
	unsigned char mirror);

/* Experiment to improve importing */

// Hold all data that are extracted by a file (that the game uses)
struct mesh_data
{
	unsigned int vcount;
	float *pos;
	float *col;
	vec3 pbound, nbound;
};

struct property
{
	unsigned int flag;
	unsigned char format;
};

// Flags of what data to parse
#define FLG_V_POS_X 1
#define FLG_V_POS_Y 2
#define FLG_V_POS_Z 4
#define FLG_V_POS_MIRROR_X 8
#define FLG_V_POS_MIRROR_Y 16
#define FLG_V_POS_MIRROR_Z 32
#define FLG_V_COL_R 64
#define FLG_V_COL_G 128
#define FLG_V_COL_B 256
#define FLG_F_VINDICES 512

//Formats
#define PLY_UNSUPPORTED 0
#define PLY_CHAR   1
#define PLY_UCHAR  2
#define PLY_SHORT  3
#define PLY_USHORT 4
#define PLY_INT    5
#define PLY_UINT   6
#define PLY_FLOAT  7
#define PLY_DOUBLE 8

/* Load a .ply file, and return a struct with mesh data
 * path is filepath
 * flags declare what data to parse and how (mirroring)
 */
mesh_data *loadPly(const char *path, int flags);

unsigned char form_to_num( char *format );
unsigned int  flag_to_num( char *flag   );
char *flagstr( unsigned int flag );
char *formatstr( char format );

#endif