.OBJ is a free format popular with 3D modellers, it will allow Commons to support 3D models with colour.
Note: .PLY may offer more features than .OBJ if the resources are only available to chose to support one (see T195352)
.OBJ has been confirmed as an open format by WMF (T145502: Investigate copyright status of OBJ format)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T44725 Multimedia file format support (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T184803 Support uploading 3D files in .OBJ format | |||
| Resolved | MarkTraceur | T145502 Investigate copyright status of OBJ format |
Thanks for reporting this and welcome to Phabricator.
As tasks should only be about a single thing, I've edited the task summary to be only about supporting uploading 3D files in .OBJ format.
Thanks @JeanFred , I suggest the task description is changed to be specific to .obj format, maybe something like below (I'm not sure what the rules are around changing task descriptions)
.OBJ is a free format popular with 3D modellers, it will allow Commons to support 3D models with colour.
Note: .PLY may offer more features than .OBJ if the resources are only available to chose to support one
.OBJ has been confirmed as an open format by WMF
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145502
No problem :) I don’t think there are any particular rules for updating task descriptions − I’d say go for it if it’s an improvement/clarification. It can always be reverted later :) I updated it with yours with sound clearer to me as well.
3D is not like 2D in terms of file formats, there are 10s of successful commercial software packages each producing their own formats, the equivalent would be 20 different versions of Photoshop, equally as popular, who couldn't open each other's files. I'm not aware of any widely used 3D modelling software packages that can't open and save .OBJ or .PLY. if we want 3D to be successful we need to have support file formats everyone is familiar with and can create.