10 May 2012

A 3D Mesh Model Viewer Based on OpenGL

The idea about this program comes from the work I am doing in my Master's degree thesis. In my thesis project, I have to use some mesh files and programs that were left by some former student. He did not leave any document about the file format he used, so I have to figure it out by myself. The file extension is ylp, about which I could not find any information on Internet. Fortunately, things became easier when I opened the file with some text editor. The structure of the file is very easy to understand, which permits me to write a program to render these 3D mesh models. Whew!

I name the program Mesh Viewer, a quite straightforward name, and people who are interested can download it from here. In readme.txt I write the usage of the program and something about the structure of .ylp file, so you can create your own mesh files to render.

Here are some screenshots of the program.