Jwir3's Weblog

I have been able to get the iDocument stuff working, which I was having trouble with previously. It turns out it was merely a situation where I was confusing an iDocument* pointer with a csRef<iDocument> variable. Once found, this error was easy to correct.

I have been working on developing Use Cases for the COLLADA conversion, as I feel this will help me better understand exactly what needs to be done during each conversion step. Additionally, I modified the class diagram to contain a single class, that of iColladaConvertor, (along with an implementation), and having each individual conversion step be a separate function, rather than a separate class. I am not sure why I originally designed it to have multiple classes, but this definitely seems like overkill, and would cause the system to become bloated and possibly slow. (Not to mention being a pain with memory management. The revised class diagram is shown below.

The documentation for the use cases can be downloaded from here. I created it using a program called Use Case Maker, which is actually pretty elegant. I don't know what some of the items are, though, so there is somewhat of a lot of useless information. Sorry to those of you who get frustrated with that kind of stuff - I don't know how to turn it off. Anyway, the information which is valid right now is mainly the convert geometry use case, as that will be the one I am working on first. I've started the implementation of this particular function, and I will be updating this log on the progress of it as the day continues.