QLMesh 2.5 - development progress

QLMesh 2.5 - development progress

Longer than planned, development of QLMesh 2.5 is still in progress, but with several important improvments:

  • refreshed Assimp library with new structure and formats
  • BVH visualization support
  • rewrite to conform to new Apple QuickLook protocols

QLMesh is small but useful QuickLook plugin showing a preview of various well-known 3D model formats. All formats provided by the Open Asset Import Library (http://http://assimp.sourceforge.net) are supported: 3d, 3ds, 3mf, ac, ac3d, acc, amf, ase, ask, assbin, b3d, blend, bvh, cob, csm, dae, dat, dxf, enff, fbx, glb, gltf, hmp, ifc, ifczip, irr, irrmesh, ldr, lwo, lws, lxo, md2, md3, md5anim, md5camera, md5mesh, mdc, mdl, mesh, mesh.xml, mot, mpd, ms3d, ndo, nff, obj, off, ogex, pk3, ply, pmx, prj, q3o, q3s, raw, scn, sib, smd, stl, stp, ter, uc, vta, x, x3d, x3db, xgl, xml, zgl.


QLMesh supports previewing some compressed textures formats: dds, etc/pkm, ktx and pvr. Mipmaps are also supported and displayed as a multipage preview. Additional formats supported by the plugin are Photoshop Patterns (PAT) files (both RGB and CMYK variants), Photoshop ABR brushes and BDF fonts.