Re: Open Inventor and VRML

["Ankur Bhargava" <bhargava_ankur@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

am trying to do something similar. This is the what i did not sure if it 
would work for you or if this is how its supposed to be. i brokeup the vrml 
file into several small vrml files one for each object.Then read the smaller 
vrml files one at a time as a node and modified their individual properties 
using their node paths. If anyone can tell me of a way where i can modify 
the properties of multiple objects within the scene using a single vrml file 
it would be great.

Thanks,
Ankur




> From: "Rui Loureiro" <r.c.v.loureiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Open Inventor and VRML
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:53:20 +0100
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have recently start using TGS Open Inventor for Windows NT but I have to
> confess that I am facing some problems. I am involved in a medical project
> aiming to deliver robotic therapy to patients that have suffered from
> stroke. It has been decided that we will use a combination of virtual and
> real tasks to deliver appiling activities to the user. This surely will 
> help
> in patient's motivation and improve the recovery time. The first prototype
> is intended to go to one hospital at the end of December for clinical
> evaluation.
>
> To start with, I have modelled a virtual room using 3D studio MAX and have
> converted this scene into VRML 97 format. Somehow I have managed to read 
> the
> VRML scene into Open Inventor, but my main problem now is on how to access
> the VRML scene in order to perform actions such as, move objects from one
> location to another, detect when a collison occured, etc. Despit the books
> (The Inventor Mentor, The Inventor Toolmaker, and TGS Extesions User's
> guide) I am still lost! I have been trying to find examples but couldn't.
>
> I wonder if you could help my in this matter, if you have any documentation
> (tutorials, examples, etc) which relates to the problem discribed. Anything
> will help! It is extremely difficult for me at the moment and without 
> having
> yet the abstraction behind computer graphics and the way Open Inventor
> really works adds to my difficulty to solve the problem.
>
> I will be very gratfull if you could help me in any way. I am looking
> further to hearing from you.
>
> Sincerely
> Rui Loureiro
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at 
http://profiles.msn.com.