Re: How to use engine with data file.

[jlim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Lim)]

On Fri Jun 22 19:06:45 2001, akiba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I would like move an object according to an input
> (which is a set of coordinate data in the text file),
> but I have no idea  how to do it.
> I know that, I have to use engines to make a animation.
> But I don't know how I put data from outside into it.

Read your data into an array. Create a SoAlarmSensor that triggers every so
often. In the callback function, fetch the appropriate coordinate values from
the array and feed them into the transform node that affects the object. The
scene graph will be redrawn automatically.


              Jonathan Lim  _  Silicon Graphics  _  Mountain View
              GPS Graphics     Computer Systems        CA, USA