From: Simon Mills (simon++at++wgs.estec.esa.nl)
Date: 05/02/2000 01:37:18
Brian Furtaw wrote:
>
> My apologies for the misinformation I assumed that since MultiGen was
> Performer based it could read all the file types Performer reads. Bad
> assumption.
>
> Brian
Multigen is OpenGL based, not Performer based so it can't help you here.
For what you want to do you could try to use the 'pfconv' utility. The
trouble is very few of the Performer file loaders support the store
function. I have seen a version of the Inventor loader with a store
function implemented, I think I saw it on info-performer a long time
ago. It was never very successful for me so I've deleted it. Check the
archives though.
Personally I've developed a store function for the OpenFlight loader
using the OpenFlight API which I've found convenient many times for
converting from PFB (I'm not really at liberty to give this away
though).
> Ran Yakir wrote:
> >
> > Does MultiGen read pfb files? What version?
> >
> > Brian Furtaw wrote:
> >
> > > You could read it into Multigen and save it out as flight, assuming you
> > > have a copy of Multigen. I don't know of an Inventor file writer and the
> > > Inventor database format does not support all of the node features that
> > > are in the Performer scenegraph.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > Francois Sillion wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello Performers,
> > > >
> > > > I have access to a complex model in pfb format, which has been created from a
> > > > very large number of individual files of various formats. Is there a tool
> > > > available to convert this into another 3D format (e.g., inventor) ?
> > > > the pfb file is fine for direct use in our Performer based applications, but
> > > > we would also like to be able to edit and otherwise manipulate the 3d objects
> > > > in a modeling program.
> > > >
> > > > It seems the libpfb code has some (empty) stubs for functions that would
> > > > output Inventor files. Does this code exist anywhere, or has anyone developed
> > > > a similar tool?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
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