From: Tim Moore (moore++at++bricoworks.com)
Date: 04/13/2001 10:23:15
I wrote an RTG Performer loader for a client a few years ago, though then
it was being exported from Alias PowerAnimator. The major problem I found
with it was that the documentation *sucks*. Fortunately you get the
source to the exporter (at least you did then) but that just makes you
realize that the format was hacked together in short order. The upshot
was that I had to become an expert in the PowerAnimator API to make sense
of the RTG data, particularly translations, rotations and scaling. But,
in any real project, you've got to acquire that knowledge about the
modelling tool anyway. Because it is so ad-hoc, the format is very easy
to hack if you need to export additional data from Maya that isn't already
supported.
I'd look pretty hard at a VRML workflow; at least it's well documented.
Tim
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Ken Lindsay wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> can anyone give me info about this? Maya exports it and the
> support guy there told me it is good for realtime but he
> didn't know much more than that.
>
> thanks
>
> ken
>
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