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Reply-To: "Daniel Lichau" <Daniel.Lichau@europe.tgs.com>
From:   "Daniel Lichau" <Daniel.Lichau@europe.tgs.com>
To:     "Rui Loureiro" <r.c.v.loureiro@reading.ac.uk>
Cc:     <info-inventor-dev@oss.sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Open Inventor and VRML
Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:02:00 +0200
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Dear Rui,

I suggest that you try to post also your question to
news://comp.graphics.api.inventor.
You might have more answers and contacts with other users in this forum
since this mailing list is more dedicated to the Open Inventor 2.1 internal
implementation.
For reading, I suggest you to start with the Mentor book, then the  "Open
Inventor for VRML" chapter in the TGS  extension book. It explains how to
use Open Inventor 2.6 for VRML2
Collision detections example are located in src\examples\Features\Collision.
Moving objects will involve "transformations", that you have to understand
in the relevant Mentor chapter, and possibly "manipulators", for interactive
transformations. To get more useful information, you might need to a little
bit more specific in your questions to the forums.

Please also notice that you can get support from our hotline. Forgive me for
the advertisement :-).
Of course the most efficient way to learn how to use the product to solve
your problem would probably be a training or specific assistance.
We organize trainings regularly in our R&D centers, for instance in Bordeaux
(France), but we would also be pleased to set up a training in your research
center, which could be worth if there are other people interested in such
training.
If you are interested you can contact directly Aude.Robertet@europe.tgs.com
(she is in charge of your country).

Sincerely

Daniel Lichau
Consultant engineer
E-mail: Daniel.Lichau@europe.tgs.com

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----- Message d'origine -----
De : Rui Loureiro <r.c.v.loureiro@reading.ac.uk>
À : <info-inventor-dev@oss.sgi.com>
Envoyé : Friday, October 13, 2000 3:53 PM
Objet : Open Inventor and VRML


> 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
>
>
>
>
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