All Work and No PLY

Whelp, I got sort of sidetracked today. I figured I'd work on writing some code to import models. I started an OBJ importer a while ago, but abandoned it. I worked on it briefly, but then decided to look into some other formats. I've written an FBX importer before. I'm not a fan of the format, for many reasons. I'm in no hurry to use it again any time soon. Additionally, I'm planning on using Blender for modeling. While Blender does have an FBX exporter, it doesn't officially support importing FBXs, which is inconvenient to say the least.

So I looked into STL and PLY. It didn't take long for me to dismiss STL, but I was quite taken with PLY. I started writing an importer. By the time I had nearly finished it, I had started thinking about how often I seem to write parsing code and decided it was about time I just wrote something that can handle regular expressions. By the time I had done a little of that, the day was spent.

I'm not sure how much more time I'll end up spending on those things. It may be a few days, or I may set it aside for a while and get back to focusing on the game. In any case, I'll leave you with an appropriate comic from XKCD.