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Hi everyone. I saw many posts on forum about using 3D objects with Cococs2d.
here is ready to run implementation.
I'll be glad to start it as project on google code or add to Cococs2d repo. It needs more work for now, but have potential :)
Screenshot: 
Demo project:http://www.munkyinteractive.com/stuff/PodLoad.zip
Hope to hear any comments and improvements related to this code.
Thanks.
Hi, nice work! Why not add a method to update the object matrix so you can have cocos2d control the rotation, position, alpha, etc.
And some pointers for you --
Wolfgang Engel has extended the IT PowerVR POD libraries to create a C++ engine with dynamic lighting, shadows, 3D particle systems and 3D physics (Bullet); you might be able to leverage some of this code:
http://oolongengine.com/
Erwin Coumans is working on GameKit which supports iPhone, some of his blender object parsing might be helpful for you:
http://code.google.com/p/gamekit/
And there's also SIO2...
--yarri
Just took a quick look at this. Very cool. It would be a fantastic feature to be able to integrate 3d models so easily.
So long as it stays within the context of 2D, e.g fitting 3D models into 2D environments rather than trying to turn cocos2d into a 3D engine.
If the Z rotation was all that was needed then using the cocos2d rotation angle would make sense but that would really cripple the use of a 3d node such as this.
Its a testament to the excellent design of the framework that it can be integrated like this.
Thankyou for the contribution skeeet.
I took a quick look at the code. Looks very simple to use. How is performance? I think a useful thing to do would be to take one of riq's sprite performance tests and run the same amount of images and compare. Let me know when you think it's ready/stable and I'll try it out if you don't want to do it.
Edit: Looks like mhussa and I are on the same page :P
About perfomance.
It needs CC3DNodeManager or something like that to be implemented. So we can keep all vertex data in one place and then put instances (Just like CCtexturecache and texture2d does).
Also i cannot figure out some issues (like sprites always overlapping 3d object).
And making animations with 3d objects can be cheaper than creating big spritesheet.
@skeeet: The reason the CCNode Z ordering isn't working the way you expect is because the depth buffer is handling the z. The cocosnode z is different. Disable the depth buffer and you'll see that the cocosnode Z works as you'd expect you can put a sprite over a model.
The problem with doing that then is that the model itself isn't depth sorted so it looks wrong as it spins around.
Its strange that the model depth sorts correctly against a CCLabel but not a CCSprite.
Well i solved that already and now i can control if my 3d object is above or below cocos layers. Now need to solve thing like on screenshot.
Part of model are dismissed by depth test. I cannot disable it, because then model will be rendered crappy. My only idea for now is to render to offscreen buffer and then apply like normal sprite.
Ideas anyone?:)
Looks great already! Looking to make use of some 3d elements in a few months time, between this & yarri's & others examples in another thread, it sounds like its more than possible. Will be keeping a close eye on how this progresses. Very interesting stuff, thanks for posting!
@skeet: take a look at this thread:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/4348
in particular when we discuss glAlphaFunc almost at the end of the discussion.
@riq
well my current solution is like:
glColorMask(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE);
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glColorMask(TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE);
[self renderModel];
glColorMask(TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE);Something like fake stencil or so.
Also tried to use CCRenderTexture. It doesn't require such masking stuff, and works ok, but having issue with normals (all inverted). No idea why.
Offtop: What you think, should i post it to google-code?
@skeet: Although I wanted to have 3d sprites in cocos2d, I'm not so sure that I would like to have them included in trunk, or at least not in the near future.
3d sprites might be useful in some games (eg: Rolando2 and Bounce On 2 use 3d sprites and they are 2d games) but before adding them I would like to understand the use cases and all the implications that it might have.
In the meantime I suggest the following:
- host the 3D sprite classes somewhere (your server, or you could also upload the patch to the issue tracker)
- and add a link in Tip & Tricks (http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/tips) explaining how to use it.
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