WIP - Markup Language for Unity Assets (AML)

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I have been working on an experiment to create a markup language (or XML schema) for unity assets and so far I have a partially working example of it in the attached below. The example basically encodes and decodes AML for mesh assets in unity. It would be nice if I could get feedback on cleanup (there probably is much to say about that), performance, or any other constructive feedback.

Explanation of files:
AMLAttribute.cs - struct for holding metadata, nothing much else
AMLMeshEncoder.cs - meat of example which has the methods Encode() and Decode() to convert meshes to and from AML
AMLExample.cs - a tiny script that implements both Encode() and Decode(); attach it to a gameObject and it will encode it to a file which will likely be at C:\AMLExample.xml unless a firewall blocks it and then it will read the AML file and create a gameObject with an identical (save for the materials and textures) reconstructed mesh of the original gameObject.

I don’t mind if anyone happens to mess around with it afterwards in whole or part since I’m fairly pro-open source.

1629390–100221–$AMLMeshEncoder.cs (34.2 KB)
1629390–100222–$AMLAttribute.cs (174 Bytes)
1629390–100223–$AMLExample.cs (563 Bytes)

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I can’t take a look at it now, but you might want to look at the DAE format, it’s an XML format for 3d models…including animations. It’s a widely used interchange format for 3d modeling programs.

Granted, the official xsd needs a bit of cleaning if you want to use Microsoft’s xsd tool to generate the c# classes, but I’m pretty sure there’s a cleaned up version of it floating around somewhere.

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Good point, though most of the idea was derived from how collada worked and a little of how blender works.

I know that its probably still primitive and sloppy but it’s a start. After all, the goal of AML is to basically make the “C#” of 3d model formats or the very human readable 3d model format.

DAE is by far pretty darn neat but my goal is to make something even more readable than that. (No offence to DAE fans)