Re: Can you make a viewpoint file?

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From: Allan Schaffer (allan++at++sgi.com)
Date: 09/18/2000 13:19:58


On Sep 18, 1:21pm, Allen, Donna N wrote:
> I know how to make a path file for perfly to use. But I was wondering if
> anyone knew how to make a "viewpoint" file. Similar to the viewpoints that
> you have in VRML. I have a customer who wants to be able to reposition or
> re-locate to different perspectives within a small database to verify the
> positions of some features without having to fly to them. They want to
> "jump" from one position to the next.

A simple way, if your application is perfly-based you could add the
viewpoints directly into a foo.perfly file and load your database
from there. Have a look at town.perfly in /usr/share/Performer/data
for an example; modify the 'cmdline' list to whatever command-line
arguments you typically use and use the 'loc' lines to specify
various viewpoints. They are then switchable by the 'Reposition'
button in the perfly GUI.

Allan

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Allan Schaffer                                            allan++at++sgi.com
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