Plugins

There are 45 plugins in the core OpenSceneGraph distribution, and these provide the support for reading and writng both native and 3rd Party file formats, details on follow. Futher plugins are available in the Community Plugins section.

Invoking a plugin to load or save data The OpenSceneGraph database plugin library osgDB automatically loads plugins on demand, using the extension of the file to specify which plugin to load.

osgviewer cow.osg

load the osgdb_osg plugin to read a .osg file

osgviewer model.flt

load the osgdb_flt plugin to read a .flt file

When programming to read a file use the follow API:

osg::ref_ptr<Node> node = osgDB::readNodeFile("cow.osg");
osg::ref_ptr<Image> image = osgDB::readImageFile("lz.rgb");

To write a file use the follow API:

osgDB::writeNodeFile(*node, "saved.osg");

List of available 3d database plugins

Plugin name	Description	Extensions	Read	Write	Notes
3dc	3DC point cloud reader	.3dc .asc	yes	no
3ds	3D Studio	.3ds	yes	no
ac3d	AC3D modeler	.ac	yes	yes	http://www.inivis.com/
bsp	Quake3 BSP	.bsp	yes	no
dae	COLLADA 1.4.x	.dae	yes	yes
dw	Design Workshop Database	.dw	yes	no
dxf	Autodesk DXF Reader	.dxf	yes	no
geo	Geo	.gem .geo	yes	no
Inventor	Open Inventor format	.iv .wrl	yes	yes	.wrl Only VRML1.0
ive	Native osg binary	.ive	yes	yes	May also read/write (internal) images
logo	Logo database	.logo	yes	no
lwo	Lightwave Object	.lwo .lw .geo	yes	no
lws	Lightwave Scene	.lws	yes	no
md2	Quake MD2	.md2	yes	no
obj	Alias Wavefront	.obj	yes	yes	Also writes materials to .mtl
ogr		.ogr	yes	no
Openflight	Multigen Openflight	.flt	yes	yes	See OpenFlight plugin details
osg	Native osg ascii	.osg	yes	yes
pfb	Performer loader	All extensions supported by Performer loaders	yes	no	Requires Performer library
vrml	VRML2	.wrl	yes	no	Requires OpenVRML library
x	DirectX 3D model	.x	yes	no

List of available movie & image plugins

• tga
• tiff
• quicktime
• rgb
• pic
• png
• pnm
• bmp
• dds
• gdal
• gif
• jp2
• jpeg
• mpeg

List of available archive/networking plugins

• osga
• txp
• net
• zip
• tgz
• osgtgz

List of available font plugins

• freetype

List of available pseudo loader plugins

• rot
• scale
• stl
• trans